ppl. a. [UN-1 8. Cf. ON. úplantaðr.]
1. Not set in the ground; growing without having been planted. Also fig.
In first quot. rendering L. *implantatus, a misreading of implanatus ‘deceived.’
1382. Wyclif, Ecclus. xxxiv. 11. Who is vnplauntid, shal abound shreudenesse.
1600. Surflet, Countrie Farme, 735. No more … can the vine well … endure after it is cut to be long kept vnplanted.
1639. Waller, Battle Summer Isl., I. 5. Figs there unplanted through the fields do grow.
a. 1750. A. Hill, Happy Man, 5. Unplanted groves rise round his shelter’d seat.
2. a. Of countries, etc.: Not occupied or colonized; not developed by cultivation.
1612. Capt. Smith, Proc. Virginia, 104. But God that would not it [sc. Virginia] should bee unplanted, sent Sir Thomas Gates … to preserue us.
1660. F. Brooke, trans. Le Blanc’s Trav., 354. The countrey remaining unplanted by any forrainers.
1719. De Foe, Crusoe, II. (Globe), 436. To be lock’d up in an unplanted Island.
1807. J. Barlow, Columb., IV. 572. The future sires of our unplanted states.
b. Of ground: Not set with plants. Also fig.
a. 1800[?]. Pitt, in Nat. Rev. (1892), XIX. 298. I … left for thee my downy bed, Unplanted yet with thorns.
1805. Monthly Mag., XX. 110. [Land] unsown, unplanted, untilled.
3. Not put in position.
1615. G. Sandys, Trav., 38. At the East end … lies a number of great Ordnance vnplanted.
4. Sc. Not provided with a minister.
a. 1651. Calderwood, Hist. Kirk (1843), II. 186. It was ordeaned … that Mr. George Hay … preache in the unplanted kirks of Carrick.
