1. Not divided, separated, or broken up into parts.
c. 1412. Hoccleve, De Reg. Princ., 4469. The blessid trinite, Whiche þat euery man of cristen byleeue Knoweth an vndyuyded vnite.
1480. Cov. Leet Bk., 442. And so ye togeder, as on holy body vndevided, to sewe for the redresse therof.
1553. Eden, Treat. New Ind. (Arb.), 16. Theyr fete … hauing fyue toes like hoeues vndeuided.
c. 1620. Robinson, Mary Magd., 952. A robe hee wore, like to his essence, pure; That vndiuided; vndeuided hee.
1662. Stillingfl., Orig. Sacræ, III. ii. § 18. Some of them [sc. particles] are more undivided then others are.
1780. Mirror, No. 100. One great undivided impression, or an uninterrupted chain of congenial events.
1837. P. Keith, Bot. Lex., 374. The feet … are single and undivided, as in the horse.
1869. Tozer, Highl. Turkey, II. 152. One unbroken level, which presents an undivided area of dry and yellow soil.
b. Not separated or parted from each other.
1521. [see UNDISSEVERED ppl. a.].
c. 1600. Shaks., Sonn., xxxvi. We two must be twaine, Although our vndeuided loues are one.
1626. Bacon, Sylva, § 752. There have been some Men, that have had their Teeth undivided, as of one whole Bone.
1760–72. H. Brooke, Fool of Qual. (1809), IV. 34. In death we will be undivided.
1822. Shelley, Epitaph, 1. These are two friends whose lives were undivided.
2. Not divided by disagreement or dissension.
c. 1440. Lydg., Hors, Shepe & G., 510. Vndevided with herte, will & thouht To doon her office as nature hath hem wrouht.
3. Not divided between persons; shared or held jointly or in common. Also quasi-adv., jointly.
1544. trans. Littleton’s Tenures, 67. They ought by the lawe to occupy suche landes and tenementes in comon, and vndeuyded to take the profytes in comon.
1660. R. Coke, Power & Subj., 1. To suppose … all men to be equal, and to have a common and undivided Right to all things.
1713. C’tess Winchelsea, Misc. Poems, 243. Your unentailed, your undivided Air, Where no Proprietor was ever known.
1817. Shelley, Rev. Islam, IX. xxix. Let those … Insult with careless tread, our undivided tomb.
1877. Raymond, Statist. Mines & Mining, 247. It … is owned by Lewis Reese and Co.,… who bold an undivided half interest.
b. Not divided between different objects; concentrated on, devoted to, directed towards, one object; whole, entire.
1746. Hervey, Refl. on Flower Garden, 81. Be it thy one undivided Aim to glorify Him!
1779. Mirror, No. 13. Where the undivided attention has leisure to brood over the few … objects which surround him.
1856. N. Brit. Rev., XXVI. 261. A course of study … sufficient to occupy the undivided time of the longest life.
1876. Bancroft, Hist. U.S., I. Pref. The present revision, to which a solid year of close and undivided application has been devoted.
c. Not shared by others; confined to one person.
1867. Pearson, Hist. Eng., I. 39. The success of Agricola, showed that the country was not too large for an undivided command.
1878. Bosw. Smith, Carthage, 177. On his own undivided responsibility, he crossed the straits.
Hence Undividedness.
1889. Abp. Benson, in Life (1899), II. 283. To illustrate the undividedness of the Church of Wales and England.
