unburiedadj.

a900 Old Eng. Martyrol. 22 Jan. 28 Se casere þa bebead þæt hine man forlete unbyrgedne.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 259 Þe deade nis [v.r. ne wis] nocht of þach he ligge unburied. & rotie buuen eorðe.

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 4486 Men bysyde of þe lond he let burye is fon, Vor he ne kepte uor reuþe þat þer were vnbured non.

c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Franklin's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 733 His loue, that rather for to dyen chees Than for to suffre his body vnburyed be.

c1430 Life St. Kath. (1884) 59 He bad þat..her hedes [should be] smyten of and her bodyes left vnburyed.

a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 60 xxx dayes lay his body onbiried, til Seynt Petir..bad him bery it.

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xi. vii. 191 So that we..Be nocht down strowit in the feildis ded, In cumpaneis vnberyit or bewalit.

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cclxxxvj^v Wherof the one departed .xi. yeares past,..and remayned vnburied hitherto.

1600 F. Pretty in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) III. 806 Euery Fort had in it one cast peece, which peeces were buryed in the ground, the cariages were standing in their places vnburied.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis xi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 538 The Pious Chief, whom double Cares attend For his unbury'd Souldiers, and his Friend.

a1745 J. Swift Henry II in Wks. (1768) XIII. 317 When he..found that..he must draw upon himself the scandal of keeping a father unburied.

1836 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece III. xxvi. 449 The sight of the unburied dead struck their surviving friends with pious grief.

1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn II. lxv. 319 The stench of an unburied corpse which lay by the roadside.