unrazedadj.

1495 in Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1839) I. 395/1 The lordis..clerely seand and consederand the said letter hale vnrasit vnsuspect or in ony parte of the samyn viciate.

1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) xii. f. 159 I will disarme Myself, and yit vnrazed [L. indestrictus] will I passe without all harme.

1586 J. Mush Life M. Clitherow (1849) (modernized text) 363 Not one religious house standeth, not one altar unrased, uncast down and undefiled.

1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. ii. 101 They left scarce one village..unrased and unrifled.

1675 Earl of Essex Let. 3 Feb. (1770) 50 It will be a precedent very dangerous to the government here, that they shall have an order..requiring them to raze out some matters in their acts of assembly, and that these very things in after times shall appear unrazed.

1704 E. Cockson Quakers No Protestant Dissenters 17 Who can believe this their Reformation, so long as these Records of their Blasphemies remain unrazed by them?

1784 J. Ramsay Ess. Treatm. & Conversion Afr. Slaves iv. 250 The smoothness of his skin, its being unrazed by the whip.

1823 J. C. Robertson & T. Byerley Percy Anecd. XII. 119 Preserving his skin unrazed by the whip.

1884 C. Marvin Region Eternal Fire vii. 103 The defences of the Turks—defences which Russia herself could never overcome—are still unrazed.

1972 P. Sundarayya Telangana People's Struggle & its Lessons ii. iv. 187 Especially in the forest areas, not even a small hut was allowed to remain unrazed.

2010 L. McMurtry Hollywood xlii. 109 Though the Indians may not have been fully satisfied, they left the frontier unrazed.