† 1. Unexercised; unpractised. Obs.
1590. Cokaine, Treat. Hunting, C 4. Who so hunteth vnbreathed hounds at the Bucke first in hot weather.
1590. Shaks., Mid. N., V. i. 73. Hard handed men,… Which neuer labour’d in their mindes till now; And now haue toyled their vnbreathed memories With this same play.
1620. Quarles, Jonah, 99. A Muse vnbreath’d, vnlikely to obtaine An easie honour, by so stout a Traine.
1644. Milton, Areop. (Arb.), 45. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloister’d vertue, unexercis’d and unbreath’d.
2. a. Not having recovered breath.
1692. Prior, Ode Imit. Hor., v. Yon’ Hero, crown’d with blooming Victory,… And yet unbreath’d from Battles gain’d.
b. Not out of breath or exhausted.
1901. Kipling, Kim, 369. Kim’s messenger dropped from the steep pasture as unbreathed as when she had set out.
3. Not breathed (upon); not respired.
1817. Moore, Lalla Rookh, Veiled Prophet, II. 186. When from those lips, unbreath’d upon for years, I shall again kiss off the soul-felt tears.
1831. Wordsw., Yarrow Revisited, VI. 9. Rocks, rivers, and smooth lakes more clear than glass Untouched, unbreathed upon.
1884. Imp. Dict., s.v., Air unbreathed.
4. Not uttered or whispered.
a. 1827. J. Hislop, Cameronian’s Dream, 30. The vengeance that darkened their brow was unbreathed.
