uninhumedadj.
(un- prefix1 2.)
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > [adjective] > buried > not
unburieda900
unbeburiedOE
unshrined1297
ungravenc1400
unbegrave1513
unearthed1513
ungraveda1547
untombed1560
unyerded1596
unsepulchred?1611
gravelessa1616
uninhumed1626
unterred1633
uninterred1648
unentombed1697
unhearsed1809
tombless1814
unsepultured1862
1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis vii. 142 Dead corps, without the Dues of funerall, They weakly beare:..Or vn~inhum'd they lye.
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. xi. 84 Leave me not undeplored Nor uninhumed.
1835 Oriental Ann. 215 Thousands of carcasses..would not then lie uninhumed, scattering pestilence over the land.
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