ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
† 1. Not impeded or hindered. Obs.
c. 1430. Pilgr. Lyf Manhode, II. xcvi. (1869), 110. With hire cordes she withheeld me, of which j was not unenpeched.
2. Not assailed, accused, or called in question.
1583. Golding, Calvin on Deut. xxxix. 235. Let vs glorifie him, and beware yt he remaine vnimpeached in his Maiestie.
c. 1611. Chapman, Iliad, IX. 383. Many fair Achive princesses of unimpeached life.
1702. Rowe, Tamerl., IV. i. While yet my Regal State stood unimpeach’d.
1790. Cowper, Lett. to Bagot, 22 June, A person of most unimpeached veracity.
1816. Byron, Siege Cor., vii. 143.
| While unimpeached for traitorous crime, | |
| Gayest in gondola or hall, | |
| He glittered through the Carnival. |
1869. [see UNIMPLICATE].
1871. Jowett, Plato, IV. 158. The public and unimpeached use of anything for a year.
