a. (UN-1 7. Cf. next.)

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1619[?].  Corbet, Death Q. Anne, Poems (1672), 126. Do not … for an Epithite that fails, Bite off your Unpoetick Nails.

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1786.  Miss Seward, in Mrs. Delany’s Life & Corr. (1862), III. 395. I have seen nothing of him since he sunk into his very unpoetic union.

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1812.  J. Wilson, Isle of Palms, etc., 371. Light Fauns, That the good owner’s unpoetic soul Could not … Imagine.

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1863.  ‘Quida,’ Held in Bondage, vi. There is something unpoetic, and coarse,… about blood and bruises.

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  Comb.  1855.  G. Macdonald, A. Forbes, xxxix. The most unpoetic-looking Mr. Cupples.

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