1572 J. Bridges tr. R. Gwalther Hundred, Threescore & Fiftene Homelyes vppon Actes Apostles xix. 707 This is the verye playne and vnracked meaning of Paules wordes.

1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet To Rdr. sig. A4^v None escapte vnrackt or vnsawed, that were not iust of their beds length.

1738 E. Weaver Brit. Telescope sig. C7 Unrack'd with Envy of his Neighbour's Store, He fears no Want, nor wishes to have more.

1786 E. Bentley Genuine Poet. Compositions 5 The mind unrack'd with doubts and fears.

1887 R. Browning C. Avison in Parleyings ix Because he..spread out phrase unracked By modulations fit to make each hair Stiffen upon his wig.

1899 Critic (N.Y.) May 445/1 Those who live healthy, normal lives, unracked by hemorrhage, untroubled by genius, may try to picture the life of one harassed by both.

1926 W. N. Burns Saga Billy the Kid v. 64 He went his way through life without remorse, unracked by nerves or memories.

1943 Stud. Philol. Apr. 248 There has been a clear shift away from authors unracked by doubts.

1606 W. Warner Continuance Albions Eng. iv. ciii. 406 To hawke, hunt, and receiue vnracked Rents was all.

1624 in W. Fraser Mem. Earls of Haddington (1889) II. 143 The suirtie, the halding, the onrackit rent payit in thir worst yeares.

1659 W. Chamberlayne Pharonnida iv. ii. sig. C5 Each in his own unrack'd inheritance Where born expir'd.

1793 J. Ogden Archery 31 Tenants, then unrack'd, Like children, by their Lords, who own'd the land, Were cherish'd.

1581 R. Mulcaster Positions v. 31 Though the Latin tounge..of long time hath bene smoothed both to the eye, and to the eare: yet in course of teaching it doth not naturally draw on the English, which yet remaineth in her lees vnrackt and not fined.

1602 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) xiii. lxxvii. 319 Euen horror would from Tyrants, shame from harlots flow vnrack't.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §306 Pour the lees of the racked vessel into the unracked vessel.

1643 Irelands Excise 3 All Wines of the Spanish growth rackt or unrackt, to pay six pound Imposition per Pipe or But.

1721 J. Swift Let. 14 Sept. (1766) II. 235 If Loyd agrees, I will but be glad one of his hogsheads was left unrack'd.

1767 F. Geach Observ. Endemial Colic Devonshire 2 The common people drink immoderately of cyder, while yet foul and unracked from the gross lees.