Unobstructed

ppl. a. (UN-¹ 8.)

1659.  W. Chamberlayne, Pharonnida, III. iv. 361. Anger, like unobstructed love, breaks forth In flaming haste. Ibid., III. v. 516.

a. 1711.  Ken, Hymnarinum, Poet. Wks. 1721, II. 137. From thence o’er the celestial Vast, Eyes unobstructed cast.

1748.  Melmoth, Fitzosborne Lett., lxi. (1749), II. 117. Much caution is necessary to give a fine taste its full and unobstructed effect.

1808.  Mrs. C. Kemble, Day after Wedding, 6. You hope to glide along the stream of life, unobstructed by the shoals of misfortune.

1859.  Parkinson, Optics (1866), 245. The eye having an unobstructed view through the hole.

  Hence Unobstructedly adv.

[1847.  Webster.]

1867.  H. Macmillan, in Macm. Mag., No. 99. 259/2. The sun to shine down unobstructedly.

1897.  Outing, XXX. 139/2. A huge triangle that led unobstructedly into the wide mouth of this baggy apex.