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1579. W. Fulke, Heskins’ Parl., 353. It was kept many yeres … vnputrified.
1626. Bacon, Sylva, § 341. So wee see that Meat and Drinke will last longer, Vnputrified, or Unsowred, in Winter, than in Summer.
1663. Boyle, Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos., II. i. 25. An embrio … preserved unputrified for several years.
1735. Arbuthnot, Aliments, 180. No Animal unputrify’d, being burnt, yields any alkaline Salt.
1799. Kirwan, Geol. Ess., 60. The rhinoceros was found intire and unputrified.
1843. Carlyle, Past & Pr., III. x. All human things do require … to have some Soul in them,… were it only to keep the Body unputrefied.
