ppl. a. (UN-1 8.)
1702. Phil. Trans., XXIII. 2176. It [a puppy fœtus] had no place for Eyes, nor Meatus for Ears, only the Outward Resemblance of one on each side, unpenetrated and plac’d lower than naturally.
a. 1704. T. Brown, Lett. fr. Dead, Wks. 1730, II. 186. You were always very careful of your lord’s health, and never brought any thing to his embraces but unpenetrated maids, or very sound thorn-backs.
1775. Johnson, Journ. West. Isl., 100. The mountains were yet unpenetrated, no inlet was opened to foreign novelties, and the feudal institutions operated upon life with their full force.
[1775. Ash.]
1781. Pennant, Hist. Quadrup., I. 161. In some of those remote parts … unpenetrated yet by Europeans.
1831. Carlyle, Sart. Res., II. viii. An American Backwoodsman, who had to fell unpenetrated forests.
1868. Milman, St. Paul’s, 160. The unpenetrated darkness of futurity.
1894. Julia H. May, Songs Woods of Maine, 35.
| Between two mysteries I stand, | |
| The vast unfathomed skies, | |
| And that unpenetrated land | |
| Which underneath me lies. |
