ppl. a. [UN-1 8.] Not applied, in various senses.
1540. Hyrde, trans. Vives’ Instr. Chr. Wom., I. i. 1. Quintilian in his boke, where he doth instruct and teache an oratour, wylleth his begynnyng and entrance to be taken from the cradel, and no tyme to be slacked vnaplied towarde thende and purpose of the facultee entended.
1605. Bacon, Adv. Learn., II. xxi. § 5. Because they were men dedicated to a private, free, unapplied course of life.
1681. Flavel, Meth. Grace, i. 2. Never was any wound healed by a prepared, but unapplied plaister.
1751. Warburton, Pope’s Wks., IV. 28, note. While a character is unapplied, all the various parts of it will be considered together.
1785. J. Phillips, Treat. Inland Navig., 39. The money would lie useless and unapplied a great part of the time.
1832. Babbage, Econ. Manuf., xxxv. (ed. 3), 388. We may remark that the sea itself offers a perennial source of power hitherto almost unapplied.
1889. S. Walpole, Ld. J. Russell, I. 272. The remedies which Lord John had desired to provide were still unapplied.
