Unprized

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8.]

  † 1.  Unpriced; of which the price has not been fixed. Obs.

1445.  Extr. Aberdeen Reg. (1844), I. 14. That thai sell na flesche vnprisit,… vnder the payne of tynsal of the flesche.

  2.  Not prized or valued.

c. 1600.  Donne, Elegy, iii. 6. Women are like the Arts, forc’d unto none, Open to all searchers, unpriz’d, if unknowne.

1615.  G. Wither, Fidelia, 707. Though my faith must now despised be, Vnpriz’d, vnualued at the lowest rate.

1648.  Hexham, II. Ongelovet, Vnprised, or Vnrated.

1821.  Wordsw., Italian Itinerant, 82. Seemingly a Thing despised; Even by the sun and air unprized.

  † 3.  ? Priceless. Obs. (Probably = prec.)

1605.  Shaks., Lear, I. i. 262. Not all the Dukes of watrish Burgundy Can buy this vnpriz’d precious Maid of me.