Also 5 vnbedde. [UN-1 8 b.]
1. = UNBIDDEN ppl. a.
14[?]. Gosp. Nicodemus (A.), 174. Þis messagere to ihesu knelid:… Þes baners sone gan helde And bowed to ihesu vnbedde.
1593. Shaks., 3 Hen. VI., V. i. 18. Oh vnbid spight, is sportfull Edward come?
1623. J. Taylor (Water P.), Discov. by Sea, A vij. The waues amaine (vnbid) oft boorded vs.
1661. Pepys, Diary, 3 Feb. So to Mr. Fox’s, unbidd; where I had a good dinner and special company.
1700. Dryden, Iliad, I. 784. He said no more but crown’d a Bowl, unbid: The laughing Nectar overlook’d the Lid.
1715. Pope, Iliad, II. 485. And Menelaus came, unbid, the last. Ibid. (1725), Odyss., VII. 269. As yet, unbid they never grac’d our feast.
1827. Pollok, Course T., VIII. 16. The ministers Of God’s unsparing vengeance waited, still Unbid.
1876. [see UNBODEN ppl. a. 1].
† 2. Unprayed for. Obs.
1590. Spenser, F. Q., I. ix. 54. He chose an halter from among the rest, And with it hung himselfe, vnbid vnblest.
