† 1. Not injured, marred, or impaired. Obs.
1579–80. North, Plutarch (1595), 242. When the golden and vnfoiled age remained yet whole … at Rome.
a. 1640. Jackson, Creed, X. viii. 3. The Naturalist … hunts after the truth with fresh unfoiled scent.
1691. Ray, Creation, II. (1692), 22. To let in [to the eye] the Light and Colors unfoiled and unsophisticated by any inward Tincture.
2. Not overcome, beaten, or baffled.
1587. T. Hughes, Misfort. Arthur, V. i. 31. For had impatient ire indu’rde abuse,… I mought haue liu’d in forreine coastes vnfoilde.
1600. Sir F. Vere, Comm., 93. Their footmen (which were old trained souldiers, and to that day unfoiled in the field).
1672. Temple, Ess., Govt., Wks. 1720, I. 107. The usurped Powers … thought themselves secure in the Strength of an unfoiled Army of above Sixty Thousand Men.
