1546 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1911) IX. 50 Be his graces commande, thre elnis unpres blak to be his graces page, Claude, ane cote.

1552 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1913) X. 123 Thre elnis, thre quarteris, unprest blak.

1588 C. Lucar Appendix ii. 7 in tr. N. Tartaglia 3 Bks. Shooting Although the earth about the sides of euery vessell must be rammed downe, yet that part of earth which lyeth in the midst of the vessell must lie loose, and vnpressed.

1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 65 A beastly kind of vnpressed cheese.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iii. xiii. 106 Haue I my pillow left vnprest in Rome,..to be abus'd By one that lookes on Feeders? View more context for this quotation

1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity i, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 410 Unpress'd their Vintage, and untill'd their Ground.

1794 L. Peacock Visit for Week 167 A boy who can, unpressed by necessity, proceed to such lengths, must necessarily be unbounded in his desires.

1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho I. i. 43 The forest-walk, where flow'rs, unprest, Bow not their tall heads.

1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision II. vi. 25 What boots it, that thy reins Justinian's hand Refitted, if thy saddle be unpress'd?

1879 E. Arnold Light of Asia iv. 90 On our bed there lay An unpressed pillow.

1932 W. Faulkner Light in August xix. 419 A tall, loosejointed man with a constant cob pipe,..wearing always loose and unpressed dark gray clothes.

1968 J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 96 Soft pleats with edges rounded and left unpressed.

2001 M. Hughes et al. World Food: India 79 The best Indian sweets, particularly those from West Bengal are made with chhana (unpressed paneer).

1571 Dict. French & Eng. sig. T.iij/2 La mere goutte.., vnpressed wine.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxviii. xiv. 331 A little unpressed wine of the first running, called Mere-goutte.

1625 F. Quarles Sions Sonets xxi. sig. F2 Our tender Vine Should cheare thy palate with her Vnprest Wine.

1708 J. Philips Cyder i. 414 Snails, that creep O'er the ripe Fruitage,..and unprest Cyder drink.

1798 T. S. Surr George Barnwell II. v. 101 Her right hand held a chalice, into which dropped, unpressed, from a cluster of grapes.., the intoxicating juice.

1802 C. Lamb John Woodvil 111 Because your poet-born hath an internal wine,..unpressed in mortal wine-presses.

1848 Brit. Patent 12,040 (1857) 4 Combining one part of crude cocoa-nut oil, one part cold pressed atmospherically bleached palm oil, and one part of unpressed palm oil.

2002 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 17 Aug. 6 Ambar, made from the first small quantities of unpressed juice to run from the grapes, is in a class of its own.

1603 J. Davies Microcosmos 144 Our Kings might warre with Tenants of their owne, Who would vnprest haue yet bin prest for shame To follow their Liege-land-lords.

1625 W. Pettie in W. Jones Treat. Patience in Tribulation 41 Our old souldiers willingly, vnprest, Ran to your wars as fast as to some feast.

1744 J. Miller Mahomet Impostor Prol. sig. A3 Murder's the Game—and to the Sport unprest, Proud of the Sin, and in the Duty blest, The Layman's but the Blood-Hound of the Priest.

1871 H. King tr. Ovid Metamorphoses xiii. 43 The first to arms who sprang Unpressed, by no informer dragged to war.

1913 J. R. Hutchinson Press-gang Afloat & Ashore xii. 320 The number of pressed men present in a ship was large in proportion to the unpressed element.