[UN-1 8 b. Cf. OFris. ondan (NFris. ündōn), MDu. ongedaen (Du. -daan), MHG. ungetân (G. -than, -tan).]
1. Not done; unaccomplished, uneffected.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 13176. His comandment was noght vn-dun, For he was heued and þat als sun.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Wks. (1880), 90. He mot leue goddis comaundement vndon.
c. 1440. Jacob’s Well, 114. Ȝif … þou leve vnsayd or vndo þat is nedefull … þanne is it dedly synne.
a. 1450. Myrc, Par. Pr., 1187. Hast þou any pylgrimage laft vn-do When þou were i-ioynet þer-to?
1535. Act 27 Hen. VIII., c. 25. Euery parishe … shal lose & forfait .xx.s. for euery moneth, in whiche it is omitted and vndone.
1585. T. Washington, trans. Nicholay’s Voy., III. xxi. 110. [They] goe on such pilgrimage, leauing vndone al other houshold or common affaires.
1678. Butler, Hud., III. II. 160. The Publick Business is undone, Which still the longer ’tis in doing, Becomes the surer way to Ruine.
1706. Prior, Ode to the Queen, xix. Nought done the Hero deem’d, while ought undone remain’d.
1759. Johnson, Rasselas, xxx. I must not … leave at last undone what I came hither only to do.
1791. Mrs. Radcliffe, Rom. Forest, iv. They went out of the shop together, leaving my horse’s shoe undone.
1847. Helps, Friends in C., I. 5. If I leave it undone, some one else will do it to my mind.
1871. Macduff, Mem. Patmos, vi. 74. The sword completed what the fire had left undone.
b. As sb. That which is not done.
1872. Ruskin, Arrows of Chace (1880), II. 208. The condemnation … is all for the undones and not for the dones.
2. Not done away, not removed.
1679. C. Nesse, Antichrist, 204. While this Vail and face of Covering is undone away.
