unransackedadj.

1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes ii, in Wks. 187/1 I will for none hast leue any corner of the matter unransaked, as far as we can any doubte find therin.

1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. viii. 178 Leauing no element vnransaked to get a gowbin for their glotenous gorge.

1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 651 His soldiors..left neither house nor corner thereof vnransacked.

1671 Bp. S. Parker Def. Eccl. Politie iv. 367 No passage of Holy Writ shall be left unransackt for Proofs and Texts to their purpose.

1713 Earl of Cromarty Hist. Acct. Conspiracies 44 To leave no part of this injurious Libel unransacked.

1785 W. Cowper Let. 9 July (1981) II. 362 I shall not leave my books unransack'd.

1845 E. Robinson Whitehall I. xiv. 155 Such carcasses as he imagined were yet unransacked.

1895 R. Ellis in Class. Rev. Feb. 41/2 A still unransacked mine of quite new materials.

1906 R. Charlton Mave xxii. 271 Not a haunt of vileness was left unransacked; the ports were watched, and even the rat-holes in the London borough probed for the fugitives.

1991 W. K. Pritchett Greek State at War V. iv. 197 The Roman freedmen left no grave unransacked in searching for vases.

2010 M. Dobbs Reluctant Hero xiii.331 The rules of this new game were simple; no hold barred, no arm untwisted, no room unransacked, no life left alone.