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▪ I. unwrought, ppl. a.|ʌnˈrɔːt|
[un-1 8 b, c. Cf. OE. unᵹeworht, MLG. ungewrocht, MDu. onghewrocht, -wracht, Du. ongewrocht.]
1. Not made, done, formed, performed, etc.; left in an unfinished or incomplete state; uncompleted, unperformed.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints x. (Matthew) 143 Sa þare warke lewit vnwrocht, Fore vndire-stand vthire þai na mocht. c1450Myrr. our Ladye 268 She lefte no verteu vnwroughte in the worlde. c1611Chapman Iliad ii. 117 The work that should have wreaked our wrong..lies unwrought. 1819Shelley Peter Bell 3rd vii. xx, Love's work was left un⁓wrought—no brood..took wing.
2. Not formed or fashioned by being worked on; esp. of materials (as fabrics, stone, or metals): Still in a crude, raw, rude, or natural state; not worked into a finished condition; undressed; = raw a. 2 a, rough a. 16.
In very frequent use from c 1600, esp. with stone, iron.
c1400Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton, 1483) v. xiv. 107 God hymself is nature vnformed and vnwrought. 1455Rolls of Parlt. V. 325/1 Never any thing of Silke..in eny wise wrought, but in rawe Silk allone unwrought. 1463–4Act 19 Hen. VII, c. 21 All other maner of Sylkes,..rawe or unwrought. 1503[see raw a. 2 a]. 1545Rates of Custom b i b, Enkyll the pounde vnwrought, iiii d. 1548Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. 1 Cor. viii. 23 b, An other vnsquared piece of tymber, or an vnwrought stone. 1571Golding Calvin on Ps. lxxiv. 5 The unwrought and rough timber-logs. 1601[see rough a. 16]. 1616W. Browne Brit. Past. ii. iv. 587 Brests softer farre than tufts of unwrought silke. 1673Temple Obs. United Prov. Wks. 1720 I. 66 We then carry'd out our Wools unwrought. 1719W. Wood Surv. Trade 85 Every Country which..returns us unwrought Materials to be manufactured here. 1773J. Hawkesworth Cook's Voy. i. v. II. 57 We saw also some pieces of glass and flint among them unwrought. 1799Hull Advertiser 11 May 1/1 A large quantity of unwrought Alum-Rock. 1827G. Higgins Celtic Druids 212 Very large unwrought stones. 1841Elphinstone Hist. India I. 371 The cocoa-nut tree and the bamboo furnish all the materials for construction unwrought. 1896Daily News 11 Feb. 2/4 Unwrought steel and cast and wrought iron.
fig.1641Milton Ch. Govt. ii. Concl. 62 Men..whose unchast'ned and unwrought minds [were] never yet..subdu'd under the true lore of religion. 1886McNeill Sir Tristrem p. xx, After having lain unwrought into any new forms for a couple of centuries, the story [etc.].
b. Not developed or worked out.
1877C. M. Yonge Cameos iii. x. 84 He must choose..whether to continue the art that should diffuse knowledge for good or evil, or leave it unwrought out.
3. a. Of a mine, etc.: Not worked. Also in fig. context.
1669Earl of Sandwich tr. Barba's Art of Metals i. (1674) 7 [The mine] lay unwrought for four or five years. 1670Pettus Fodinæ Reg. 86 Where he findeth a Meer unwrought, he shall score on the Spindle one score. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 209 This island abounds with iron, lead, and copper mines, though unwrought. 1839H. T. De la Beche Rep. Geol. Cornwall, etc. xv. 617 In 1778, also, these iron-lodes still remained unwrought. 1863N. Hawthorne Our Old Home II. 15 Treasures of wit and wisdom..still in the unwrought mines of human thought.
b. Of coal: Not hewn out, excavated, or won.
1789J. Williams Min. Kingd. I. 8 The whole coal wall, that is the unwrought coal. 1883[see unworked 2 b].
c. Of land: Not tilled, laboured, or cultivated.
1600Fairfax Tasso i. lxiv, Or proue at least..Their harts were fertill land, although vnwrought. 1876–in north. dialect and Sc. use.
4. Not employed in, not subjected or inured to, labour. rare.
1550W. Lane in Froude Hist. Eng. (1860) V. 285 Out of the decay of tillage springeth the scarcity of corn and the people unwrought. 1628May Virg. Georg. ii. 55 Then make strong hedges to keep cattell out, Young beasts especially, and yet unwrought.
▪ II. unˈwrought, pa. pple.
[f. unwork v.]
Put back or restored to a former condition; undone.
1726Pope Odyssey xix. 177 The woof unwrought the Suitor-train surprize. 1850Mrs. Browning Sonn. fr. Portuguese xiv, These things..may Be changed, or change for thee,—and love, so wrought, May be unwrought so. |