ppl. a. (UN-1 8. Cf. ON, úrannsakaðr, MSw. oransakadher.)
1529. More, Dyaloge, II. Wks. 187/1. I will for none hast leue any corner of the matter unransaked, as far as we can any doubte find therin.
1555. Watreman, Fardle Facions, II. viii. 178. Leauing no element vnransaked to get a gowbin for their glotenous gorge.
1603. Knolles, Hist. Turks (1621), 651. His soldiers … left neither house nor corner thereof unransacked.
1785. Cowper, Lett. to Newton, Wks. 1837, XV. 177. I shall not leave my books unransacked.
1845. [Emma Robinson], Whitehall, xiv. Such carcasses as he imagined were yet unransacked.
1895. R. Ellis, in Class. Rev., Feb., 41/2. A still unransacked mine of quite new materials.
