ppl. a. [UN-1 8 and 5 b.]

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  1.  Not disputed or argued with. rare1.

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1570.  Foxe, A. & M. (ed. 2), 2034/2. So in the end, the bishop making to our ambassadours good countenaunce,… dismissed them vndisputed wythall.

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  2.  Not disputed or called in question.

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a. 1625.  Fletcher, Nice Valour, IV. i. That if my anger chance let fall a stroke,… Yet it may pass unmurmur’d, undisputed.

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a. 1698.  Temple, Ess. Pop. Discontents, Wks. 1720, I. 261. This Moral Principle … is certainly the most undisputed.

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1732.  Berkeley, Alciphr., VI. § 5. If a man assent to the undisputed books, he is no longer an infidel.

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1781.  Cowper, Truth, 527. Let heathen worthies … Possess, for me, their undisputed lot.

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1844.  Kinglake, Eöthen, viii. Her superiority over all others … remained undisputed.

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1866.  Geo. Eliot, F. Holt, Introd. A man who … held a position of easy, undisputed authority.

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