ppl. a. Also 5 vngettyn, -getyn. [UN-1 8 b.]
1. Unbegotten.
1435. Misyn, Fire of Love, 14. For nouþer þe substanc of þe sone som-tyme vngetyn myȝt be called,… with-oute an onely gettyn sone of þe self.
1470–85. Malory, Arthur, VI. i. 571. He that shal sytte there is vnborne and vngoten.
1548. Patten, Exped. Scotl., A vij. Astyages … was … admonished yt he shoulde be ouercommen by a nephew of hys as yet then vngotten & vnborne.
1599. Shaks., Hen. V., I. ii. 288. And some are yet vngotten and vnborne, That shal haue cause to curse the Dolphins scorne.
2. Not acquired, obtained, or won.
a. 1548. Hall, Chron., Hen. VI., 107 b. The Frenchemen … seyng the strong fortres was ungotten,… fetched a compasse about.
1600. Palfreyman, Baldwin’s Mor. Philos., 135 b. They that indeuour to get theyr husbandes or wiues by deceipts & charmes, may lightly get them, but better vngotten.
1628. Feltham, Resolves, I. xlviii. 45. Let her wander, in a wearied sollicitude, after vngotten plenty.
1775. Ash, Ungotten,… not gotten, not gained.
1864. Holme Lee, Silver Age, II. 129. Their eyes gloat covetously on yet ungotten gains, and their hands clutch at every bit of coin that can by hook or by crook be gathered into their pouches.
1876. Geo. Eliot, Dan. Der., xxiii. To carry the map of an ungotten estate in your pocket is a poor sort of copyhold.
1883. Gresley, Gloss. Coal-m., 197. Solid or ungotten coal forming the roof of a roadway.
