ppl. a. [UN-1 7 b and 5 b.]

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  † 1.  Not affianced or betrothed. Obs.

2

1507.  [see UNAFFIED].

3

1564–5.  Reg. Privy Council Scot., I. 325. He sould … keip the said Jane … as fre woman uncontractit or mariit … for the space of ane yeir.

4

c. 1625.  [see UNAFFIED].

5

  2.  Not brought into smaller compass.

6

1758.  Johnson, Idler, No. 9, ¶ 2. To give the smooth feature and the uncontracted muscle.

7

1864.  Pusey, Lect. Daniel, i. 49. In the Biblical Chaldee the older uncontracted forms prevail.

8

1877.  Raymond, Mines & M., 116. This serpentine belt … extending its course southeasterly with uncontracted dimensions.

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