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  1.  Not corrected or amended.

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1638.  Rider, Horace, Odes, III. xiv. You youths,… Forbeare all languages unrectifi’d.

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1662.  Hibbert, Body Divinity, I. 306. Many things were left unrectified, which … they did not see.

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1685.  Jeffreys, in Howell, State Trials (1811), XI. 591/2. That one mistake in point of law might not go unrectified.

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1837.  Wordsw., Mem. Tour Italy, i. 329. Diligence uninspired, Unrectified, unguided … By godlike insight.

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1895.  W. H. Hudson, Spencer’s Philos., 171. The unrectified egotistic emotions of the dweller in cave and wilderness.

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  2.  Not purified or refined.

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1663.  Boyle, Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos., II. ii. 36. Unrectified spirit of man’s blood.

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1694.  Salmon, Bate’s Dispens., 144/1. The Oil … stinks so abominably, that it is scarce possible to be used alone, especially unrectified.

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1766.  Compl. Farmer, s.v. Purging, Unrectified oil of amber.

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1840.  Hood, Kilmansegg, Misery, ix. Drops of unrectified spirit distill’d From the limbeck of Pride and Vanity.

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