Unpropped

ppl. a. (UN-¹ 8.)

1616.  W. Browne, Brit. Past., II. v. 342. I have beheld A widow vine stand, in a naked field,… Unpropt, unsuccoured, by stake or tree.

1675.  Otway, Alcibiades, V. i. When success me to my wishes calls, I’ll shake him off, and then unpropt he falls.

1700.  Dryden, Meleager & Atalanta, 132. The Nerves no more sustain The Bulk; the Bulk unprop’d, falls headlong on the Plain.

1802–12.  Bentham, Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827), I. 396. The ceremony of an oath in its pure state, unpropped by that support.

1827.  Pollok, Course T., II. 740. He … tried to stand Alone, unpropped, to be obliged to none.