unperishedadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈpɛrɪʃt/, U.S. /ˌənˈpɛrɪʃt/ That has not perished or been destroyed.
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the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > lasting quality, permanence > [adjective] > remaining in specified condition
unbrokena1300
unbrokea1325
unperisheda1400
upstandingc1450
unviolate1548
uncancelled1557
yet1608
voidless1642
indissolved1659
standing1673
unruinablea1684
unworn1748
decayless1828
a1400 Siege Jerusalem (Laud) (1932) l. 76 (MED) By þat wer bernes atte banke, barouns & knyȝtes..selcouþ..þoȝt Þat euer barge oþer bot or berne vpon lyue Vnpersched [c1450 Calig. vnperysched] passed hadde, þe peryles wer so many.
a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) v. l. 2968 We ask..yhowre helpe, at oure cyte And we may sauff wnperyst be.
1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour iii. vi. sig. Zvi He presumed, that faythe beinge obserued vnperisshed, shulde please all mighty god aboue all thinges.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 40 He cast be course what shuld come after Shuld neuer purpos vnperisshit be putto a yssu.
1555 R. Eden tr. S. von Herberstein Rerum moscouiticarum commentarii in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 305 Any beastes whose skynnes they desyre to saue vnperysshed.
1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia v. 198 The hull though..in the water, they found vnperished.
1652 T. Froysell Gale of Opportunity 39 The sweet smelling spices of his lovely life..will imbalme him, and keep him unperisht in your thoughts many years.
1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad VI. xxiii. 402 Yon' aged Trunk.., Or hardy Fir, unperish'd with the Rains.
1789 H. C. Jennings Rev. Postscript to Physical Enq. 14 Nothing more natural than that the yet unperished Skeletons..should have suggested..Ideas of a temporary Flood.
1857 J. Ruskin Polit. Econ. Art ii. 146 You can help some genius yet unperished.
1902 T. Hardy Poems Past & Present 151 If aught of him remain unperished still.
1997 S. Louvish Days Miracles & Wonders (1999) 395 How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war unperished.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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