ppl. a. (UN-1 8.)
c. 1374. Chaucer, Boeth., II. pr. iv. (1868), 42. Alwey to euery man þere is … somwhat þat vnassaied he ne wot not, or ellys he drediþ þat he haþ assaied.
c. 1403. Lydg., Temple Glas, 1249. For vn-assaied men may no trouþe preue.
1513. Douglas, Æneid, VIII. iv. 58. Na maner of wickitnes nor dissait Mycht be, that he ne durst nocht tak on hand, Ne onassait leif.
1560. Daus, trans. Sleidane’s Comm., 195 b. Who leaveth no waye unassayed to accomplyshe his ambition.
1617. Moryson, Itin., I. 275. These good fellowes leave nothing unassaied, in the wished discovery of these fraudes.
1649. Milton, Eikon., xi. Wks. 1851, III. 427. To be ridd of these mortifying Propositions he leaves no tyrannical evasion unassaid.
1708. Philips, Cyder, I. 362. They sedulously think To meliorate thy Stock; no Way, or Rule Be unassay’d.
1784. Cowper, Task, III. 451. To raise the prickly and green-coated gourd,… is an art … at this moment unassay’d in song.
1912. Lady Burghclere, Life Dk. Ormonde, I. x. 317. He could not afford to leave unassayed any issue that promised escape.
