1678. Oldham, On Wks. B. Jonson, x. Poems (1684), 81. Thou thy own Works didst strictly try By known and uncontested Rules of Poetry.
1692. Norris, Curs. Reflect., 14. I affirm that there are … as uncontested Propositions in Morality as in any other Science.
1750. Johnson, Rambler, No. 45, ¶ 2. You seem … to have allowed as an uncontested principle, that marriage is generally unhappy.
1800. Misc. Tr., in Asiat. Ann. Reg., 248/1. The Goosaigns maintained an uncontested authority, till the arrival of about 12 or 14,000 Seik horsemen.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xvii. IV. 47. A government of which the title was uncontested.
1874. Disraeli, in Froude, Carlyle’s Life in Lond., xxxiii. (1884), II. 429. I see only two living names which … stand out in uncontested superiority.
Hence Uncontestedly adv.
1699. T. Baker, Refl. Learn., ii. 10. As for the Greek [tongue], which is uncontestedly Learned, most know, how copious it is.
1719. J. T. Phillips, trans. Thirty-four Confer., 298. These sorts of Beads had been for some thousand Years uncontestedly an efficacious Medecine for Souls.
