unhealedadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈhiːld/, U.S. /ˌənˈhild/ (un- prefix1 2. Cf. North Frisian unhialed, Dutch ongeheeld, Middle High German ungeheilet, German -heilt.)
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > [adjective] > not cured or healed
unhealed?c1225
unsounded1420
uncured1548
unreduced1705
unimproved1879
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 243 For þi he wende vn healed..ut of þe temple.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) vii. liv But if he leue one [hemorrhoid] vnheled it is perile.
a1425 tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula 44 If þe fynger..of any man haue be long vnheled of vnwise cure.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 136 Off tuenty wonddis and ane be left vnhelit, Quhat awalis the leiching of the laif?
1574 J. Baret Aluearie V 142 Unhealed, vncured.
1647 H. Hexham Copious Eng. & Netherduytch Dict. Vnhealed, ongenesen.
1795 H. M. Williams Lett. France I. 251 Whom the tyrants had dragged to prison, while the wounds were yet unhealed, which he had received in defending his country.
1846 R. C. Trench Notes Miracles xxxi. 437 Their guilt was..not that they were not healed, but that, being unhealed, they counted themselves whole.
1884 R. W. Church Bacon vi. 154 The wounds of Ireland were unhealed.
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