ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. Not defaced or disfigured; not destroyed.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 8730. He fraynet … How the korse might be keppit … Fresshe, vndefacede, & in fyne hew.
1537. Lett. Suppr. Monast. (Camden), 164. The churche and house remenythe as yet undefacede.
1566. Eng. Ch. Furniture (Peacock, 1866), 115. John hyxon haythe ij candelstickes & sensors vndefased.
1582. Wills & Inv. N. C. (Surtees, 1860), 100. The chamber, as yt now standeth, vndefaced.
1631. Weever, Anc. Funeral Mon., To Rdr. Such memorials … as were remaining yet vndefaced.
1676. Hobbes, Iliad, 374. Yet is his body uncorrupt,… And … doth whole remain And undefac’d, the bloud all washt away.
1772. [Shrubsole & Denne], Hist. Rochester, 63. The monuments of the dead … escaped undefaced.
1839. Darwin, Voy. Nat., xxiii. 604. The primeval forests undefaced by the hand of man.
1863. Whyte-Melville, Gladiators, III. 165. Never again would she lie in the moonlight, beautiful and gracious and undefaced.
2. Not obliterated or blotted out; uneffaced.
1565. MS. Cott. Cal. B. 10., fol. 270. Which charters remain still undefaced.
a. 1619. Fotherby, Atheom., I. iii. § 3 (1622), 19. There is a sense of God still vndefac’t.
1633. T. Nashe, Quaternio (1636), 224. Both he and shee are branded with infamie, and the stigmaticall characters remaine as yet vndefaced in them.
1709. Brit. Apollo, II. No. 15. 1/2. Undefac’d Impressions of our Maker’s Image.
1818. Scott, Br. Lamm., xxi. The softer substances, when they receive an impression, retain it undefaced.
1873. W. Cory, Lett. & Jrnls. (1897), 333. The undefaced cross and bull on the door-post.
