unpatchedadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈpatʃt/, U.S. /ˌənˈpætʃt/ 1. Not patched (in various senses); esp. not mended with a patch or patches.
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1680 M. Livingstone Albion's Congratulatory 6 The Graces, and the Vertues here unpatch'd Raign, and dart pow'rful Influence.
1710 E. Ward Nuptial Dialogues & Deb. I. xxvi. 314 Who but a Sloven can admire a Face, Unwash'd, unpatch'd, mob'd up in dirty Lace.
1782 T. Stratford 1st Bk. Fontenoy 14 That unpatched Perfection, that brightens the golden sunbeam.
1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 206 The ragged condition of those unpatched shoes.
1885 Cent. Mag. July 339/1 Handling their marbles in the pockets of unpatched corduroys adorned with brass buttons.
1937 Motorboating Sept. 62/2 Its sails were unpatched and clean.
1976 Mental Retardation & Developmental Disabilities Abstr. 11 355/2 Skin coloration was measured.., and differences between the colors of patched and unpatched skin were recorded.
2010 S. Dunlop Anastasia's Secret ix. 75 For a moment, his unpatched eye danced with mischief.
2. Computing. Of a computer system or program: not provided with a patch (patch n.1 14b); (of a vulnerability or bug) that has not been fixed by means of a patch. Cf. patch v. 8b.
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1969 T. H. Westerdale Self-describing Axiomatic Syst. (Univ. Michigan Techn. Rep.) iii. 151 The memory of a machine consists of a single patched memory net, this being equivalent to many unpatched nets.
1987 InfoWorld (Nexis) 29 June 50 An unpatched version of Crosstalk 3.6.
2001 Time 20 Aug. 65/5 A new, more sophisticated and malicious worm is introduced... It uses the same entry to make changes to unpatched servers' hard drives.
2005 Macworld (U.K. ed.) June 29/2 Unpatched vulnerabilities in Web browsers can be used by hackers to steal users' personal information.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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