a. Now rare. [OE. ungód (UN-1 7), = MDu. ongoet (older Du. ongoed), MLG. ungût (LG. ungôd), OHG., MHG. unguot (G. ungut), ON. úgóðr (Norw. dial. ugod).] Not good; evil, bad; wicked.
c. 1000. Sax. Leechd., III. 184. Seldan he bið eald, ungodan deaðe he swylt. Ibid., 188.
c. 1200. Ormin, 16739. Forrbi þatt teȝȝre dede iss all Unngod & all unclene. Ibid., 17056.
a. 1300. E. E. Psalter i. 1. In strete of sinfulle noght he stode, Ne sat in setel of storme un-gode.
c. 1305. Judas Iscariot, 22, in E. E. P. (1862), 107. Loþ hem was … a bern to norischie, so liþer and vngod.
1390. Gower, Conf., I. 20. The vice of hem that ben ungoode is no reproef unto the goode.
c. 1445. Pecock, Donet, 37. Þat þing whiche resoun knowiþ … to be bad, or vngood.
c. 1485. Digby Myst. (1882), IV. 675. His synows … Are brokyn sonder by payns vngude!
1904. C. N. & A. M. Williamson, Princess Passes, xii. You have been so good to us; don’t be ungood now.
B. absol. or as sb.
a. 1250. Owl & Night., 129. Al so hit is bi þan vngode Þat is icumen of fule brode. Ibid., 1364. Vor nys a worlde þing so god Þat ne may do sum vngod.
a. 1568. in Bannatyne MS. (Hunter. Cl.), 203/86. Vngud and gud sall fair,… Bot richteous gud … lestis for euir mair.
1885. L. Oliphant, Sympneumata, 248. For universal good, and for suppression of the ungood.
