Unquickened

ppl. a. (UN-¹ 8.)

1610.  Healey, St. Aug. Citie of God, 489. Bodyes that haue a liuing soule (though as yet vnquickned by the spirit).

1639.  Bp. Reynolds, Lord’s Supper, xvii. A bodily and unquickned service.

1712.  Blackmore, Creation, VI. 290. Which numerous, but unquicken’d progeny,… inwrapt within each other lie.

1755.  H. Walpole, Lett. (1846), III. 125. You may imagine our land-spirit will not be unquickened neither.

1858.  Boyd, Less. Middle Age, 382. Shakspere … probably wrote, with pulse unquickened, the wildest bursts of Othello.

1876.  Miss Yonge, Womankind, xi. 83. It is constant use of the powers that is needed, not only dead acquirement unquickened by exertion.