Unpastured

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8.]

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1. Not led to pasture; unfed.

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1548. Elyot, Impastus, vnfed, vnpastured, hungry.

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1647. Hexham, I. Vnpastured, ongeweydt.

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a. 1800. Cowper, Death of Damon, 113. Go, go, my lambs, unpastur’d as ye are.

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1821. Shelley, Adonais, xxvii. Why didst thou … Dare the unpastured dragon in his den?

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2. Not employed for pasture.

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1820. Shelley, Prometh. Unb., III. ii. 49. It is the unpastured sea hungering for calm.

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1872. Blackie, Lays Highl., 3. Wandering … o’er the wide unpastured sea.

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