unwastedadj.

1340–70 Alex. & Dind. 236 Hit scholde nouht lesen his liht..While þe weke & þe waxe vn-wasted lasteþ.

c1400 Found. St. Bartholomew's 61 What myghte falle to them..that hastid with a desire to that place of vnwastid pite.

1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iv. xvii. f. 121^v The fleshe of Christ is like a riche and vnwasted fountaine.

a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1953) VI. 343 Whose meale, and oyle God preserved unwasted.

1659 W. Chamberlayne Pharonnida i. i. sig. B4 So they preserve his Name, A yet unwasted Pyramid of Fame.

1712 R. Blackmore Creation i. 43 Why have those Rocks so long unwasted stood.

1826 H. H. Milman Anne Boleyn 35 Unwasted by the pains of earth, Thou didst bring forth the fair immortal birth.

1846 J. Keble Lyra Innocentium 73 Through the dim chinks of this decaying earth Gleams ever and anon th' unwasted fire.

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. f. 362^v/1 The kyng might haue had his land vnwasted, and his treasure vnconsumed.

1785 E. Burke Speech Nabob Arcot's Debts in Wks. (1815) IV. 276 Several of the petty princes of the most southerly of the unwasted provinces.

1836 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece II. xvi. 331 Tempted by the prospect of saving their still unwasted fields and dwellings.

1758 J. Dalrymple Ess. Hist. Feudal Prop. (ed. 2) 59 The lord came into the practice of giving a whole year's rent for the king's right of waste, and got the lands safe and unwasted to himself.