ppl. a. [UN-1 8, 5 b.]
1. † a. Not summoned to return. Obs.–1
c. 1470. Harding, Chron. CXXII. ii. He then his lawe and peace alwaye proclaymed … And so held on to London vnreclaymed.
b. Not demanded back.
1748. Earl Nugent, To Mankind, xviii. Wise nature mocks th’ wrangling herd; For unreclaim’d, and untransfer’d, Her pow’rs and rights remain.
2. Not reclaimed from error or wrong-doing; not reduced to order or good ways; unreformed.
1602. Shaks., Ham., II. i. 34. The flash and out-breake of a fiery minde, A sauagenes in vnreclaimed bloud of generall assault.
1611. Speed, Theat. Gt. Brit., IV. i. 138/1. Their manners vnreclaimed, and barbarisme…, doe witnesse no such ciuilitie sowen, to bee in that plot.
1757. W. Wilkie, Epigoniad, IX. 281. Yet, unreclaim’d, from such atrocious deeds, To more and worse your desp’rate rage proceeds.
1827. Pollok, Course T., II. 483. In tormenting, pained; Unawed by wrath, by mercy unreclaimed.
1830. Mackintosh, Progr. Eth. Philos., Wks. 1846, I. 256. They retain whatever was admirable in their unreclaimed state.
3. Untamed; unsubdued.
1618. Latham, Falconry, Contents. Of the Ostringer, and … Goshawke compared with other Fowles of the ayre, as they are vnreclaimed and wilde.
1631. Chapman, Cæsar & Pompey, Plays, 1873, III. 193. Antony: [of Cato]. Vnreclaimed man!
1693. Dryden, Ovid’s Met., XIII. Acis, 81. Bullocks, unreclaim’d to bear the Yoke.
4. Uncultivated, wild.
1781. Cowper, Expost., 468. This island, spot of unreclaim’d rude earth.
1832. Planting, 23 (L.U.K.). [Such] unreclaimed lands … can seldom be prepared as above.
1856. Olmsted, Slave States, 157. Land of this description … in its unreclaimed state.
Hence Unreclaimedness.
1611. Cotgr., Sauvageté, sauagenesse, wildnesse, unreclaimednesse.
1646. S. Bolton, Arraignm. Err., 28. Unreclaimednesse under any sin whatever will bring in errour.
