ppl. a. Obs. [UN-1 8.]
1. UNDEFENDED ppl. a. 2.
1451. Capgrave, Life St. Gilbert, 94. So was our old man eke disposed þat he wold not leue þe chirch on-defensed.
1544. Betham, Precepts War, II. li. L ij b. Let hym beware that he leaue not his campe vndefenced and vnmanned.
1586. Day, Eng. Secretorie, II. (1595), 100. The nature of the Dolphin is not to suffer the yong ones of her kind to straggle vndefenced.
1609. Bible (Douay), Gen. xlii. 12. You came to consider the undefensed partes of this land.
1652. Heylyn, Cosmogr., 4. God sends man into the world … naked, and weak, and undefenced against all violences and dangers.
2. Unfenced.
1607. J. Norden, Surv. Dial., V. 239. It is common … where men sow their corne, in undefenced grounds, there they make a dead hay … to keepe the cattle from the corne.
