Undischarged

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8.]

  1.  Unpaid; not cleared off or settled.

1585.  Abp. Sandys, Serm., Rom. xiii. 8–13, xi. 181. What should we say but … confesse that wee haue left that debt of loue … vndischarged?

1611.  Cotgr., Insolu, vnpayed, vndischarged, vndefrayed.

a. 1639.  Spottiswood, Hist. Ch. Scot. (1655), 336. Some private accounts, that rested undischarged at his parting forth of the Countrey.

1723.  Lond. Gaz., No. 6183/2. The said four Exchequer Bills (which are all that are now standing out and undischarged).

1800.  Misc. Tr., in Asiat. Ann. Reg., 34/2. The arrears have accumulated … and the claims of the government remain undischarged.

1908.  Atton & Holland, King’s Customs, 16. The long-standing claims of the Aquitaine mayors were still undischarged.

  2.  Not set free or dismissed; not released from office, liability, etc.

1603.  B. Jonson, Sejanus, V. iii. Those [cohorts] we must Hold still in readiness and undischarged.

a. 1671.  Ld. Fairfax, Mem. (1699), 125. Being yet undischarged of my place, they set my name in way of course to all their papers.

1834.  Coleridge, Lett., in Sotheby’s Sale Catalogue, 20 Nov. (1899), 17. I know myself an undischarged debtor.

1888.  Pall Mall G., 6 March, 2/1. He was duly adjudicated a bankrupt;… he paid nothing…, and is at present undischarged.

  3.  Not relieved of something.

1670.  Devout Commun. (1688), 27. An unfixed heart, undischarged of worldly thoughts.

  4.  Not accomplished or carried ont.

c. 1705.  Pope, Jan. & May, 473. For whate’er work was undischarg’d a-bed, The duteous knight in this fair garden sped.

1881.  Atlantic Monthly, XLVIII. 380. Fulfilling important … functions which would otherwise go undischarged.

  5.  Not fired off.

1798.  S. & Ht. Lee, Canterb. T., II. 46. Throwing down the remaining, pistol undischarged.

1812.  J. Henry, Camp. agst. Quebec, 130. A drunken sailor returned to his gun swearing he would not forsake it while undischarged.

  6.  Not unloaded (from a vessel).

1864.  Williams & Simmonds, Engl. Commerc. Corresp., 225. Tincal undischarged from the country steamer at the Ghat.