Obs. [ad. late L. ūnīt-us (whence also It. unito, Sp. and Pg. unido, F. uni), pa. pple. of L. ūnīre: see the vb.] Combined or formed into one; conjoint, united. (Latterly Sc.)
1422. Yonge, trans. Secreta Secret., 143. By lewte and trowthe and feyth the Pepill byth vnyette [sic], Citteis fulfillid, and mayntenyd lordshuppis.
1460. Rolls of Parlt., V. 381/2. Londes and Tenementes … that were unyte or annexed to the same Duchie.
1542. Hen. VIII., Declar. Scots, in Compl. Scot., 199. Two or mo of one astate might be rulers in one countrie vnite as this Isle is.
a. 1548. Hall, Chron., Hen. IV., 2. By the whiche mariage … the redde Rose was vnite and joyned with the white Rose.
1605. Play of Stucley, 1503, in Simpson, Sch. Shaks. (1878), I. 219. That Spain and Portingale shall be unite.
1647. H. More, Song of Soul, II. App. lxxxiii. A cluster of small starres unite These Meteors some do deem.
1693. Stair, Inst., II. ii. § 18. 201. When Lands are rightly Unite or Erected in Barronies.
1721. Wodrow, Corr. (1843), II. 595. The body of the ministers are joint and unite.
b. In attributive use.
1613. Heywood, Silver Age, III. i. My charm, Which gods and devils gave unite consent To be infract.
1632. Lithgow, Trav., IV. 133. [He] reduced all the Empire of Greece, to a vnite tranquilitie.
1675. R. Fleming, Short Acc. Doctr. Rom. Ch., 2. A continual visibility of the Church, as an unite body.
