[f. UNDO v.]
1. Brought to decay or ruin; ruined, destroyed.
Chiefly predicative, but the attributive use was not infrequent in the 17th and was common in the 18th century.
1340. Ayenb., 136. Hueruore his bodi is ondo, and his inwyt uolueld.
a. 140050. Alexander, 1472. We ere dredles vnd one, bot driȝten vs help.
a. 1450. Mirks Festial, 192. He ȝaf hym all to foly aftyr, and laft hit neuer til he wer vndon.
1484. Caxton, Fables of Æsop, II. ix. Many one is vndone and lost for faulte of obedyence.
a. 1542. Wyatt, in Tottels Misc. (Arb.), 85. When her store was stroyed with the floode: Then weleaway for she undone was cleane.
1573. Tusser, Husb. (1878), 91. Keepe hop from sunne, and hop is vndunne.
1608. Middleton, Trick to catch Old One, III. i. That Witgood is a riotous, undone man.
1646. P. Bulkeley, Gospel Covt., I. 48. The low and undone condition they have brought themselves into by their sins.
a. 1687. Petty, Pol. Arith. (1690), 89. England commonly beareth the whole burthen, and charge, whereby many in England are utterly undone.
1724. Swift, Drapiers Lett., ii. We are all undone if Woods halfpence must pass.
1749. Fielding, Tom Jones, XVII. iv. I am the most miserable undone Wretch upon Earth.
1810. Crabbe, Borough, xiv. 14. Blaney, a wealthy heir at twenty-one, At twenty-five was ruind and undone.
1839. Dickens, Nickleby, lvi. I am undone. Whichever way I turn, I am undone.
a. 1864. Ferrier, Grk. Philos. (1866), I. xii. 348. A soul without justice is a soul undone.
2. Unfastened, untied, detached, etc.
1565. Cooper, Thesaurus, Vincla resoluta, loosed or vndoone.
18067. J. Beresford, Miseries Hum. Life, VI. xxxvi. The outer bandage of a hurt in your bridle-hand coming undone.
1884. W. S. Gilbert, Princess Ida, II. Let all your things misfit, and yourselves At inconvenient moments come undone.
Hence Undoneness. rare1.
1835. R. M. McCheyne, Addit. Rem. (1847), 35. Under a sense of undoneness, to flee for refuge to the Saviour.