ppl. a. [UN-1 8, 5 b.]

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  1.  Not removed or done away with.

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1455.  Rolls of Parlt., V. 330/1. Whiche doubte … unremoved, is not unlike to set … division.

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1674.  R. Godfrey, Inj. & Ab. Physic, 4. So long as the spurious Ferment in both Stomach and Blood is unremoved.

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1680.  C. Nesse, Church Hist., 363. This rubb and remora is still unremoved.

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1812.  Crabbe, Tales, III. 290. Gwyn something felt … was wrong; He wish’d to know, for he believed the thing, If unremoved, would other evil bring.

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1860.  Westcott, Introd. Study Gosp., iii. 153. Their external disinclination for literature was unremoved … by their special work.

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1901.  N. Amer. Rev., Feb., 236. The unremoved deteriorating influences.

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  b.  Not removed or shifted in place.

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a. 1450.  in MS. Rawl. D. 251, fol. 86. Let it ly iij dayes onremevyd.

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c. 1490.  Paston Lett., III. 338. Ye must send me wryghtyng … hough longe … [the plaster] shold abyd on hys kne unremevyd.

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1563.  Hyll, Art Garden. (1574), 117. If they [sc. rape] growe to thicke, then remoue … them,… whereby the other vnremoued may growe the bigger in the roote.

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1613.  W. Browne, Brit. Past., I. iv. 529. As yonder mill … Yet by the head-strong torrent from his beame Is unremov’d.

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1632.  Lithgow, Trav., I. 31. [They] placed it in a high broad way, where it standeth vnremooued to this day.

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1707.  Mortimer, Husb., 472. Being sown very thin … where they may stand unremoved in the Ground for two Years.

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1784.  Phil. Trans., LXXIV, 428. They continued unremoved in their several places.

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1837.  Carlyle, Fr. Rev., II. VI. viii. A hundred and eighty bodies of Swiss lie piled there; naked, unremoved till the second day.

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1889.  21st Rep. Dep. Keeper Irel., 16. Other testamentary Records, unremoved to this Department.

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  c.  Fixed in place; firmly stationed.

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1551.  Recorde, Pathw. Knowl., I. xlii. Then sette I one foote of the compas vnremoued in B.

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1591.  Harington, Orl. Fur., IX. lxix. So great a sound, As seemed … to remove the unremoved ground.

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1667.  Milton, P. L., IV. 987. Satan … dilated stood, Like Teneriff or Atlas unremov’d.

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1820.  Shelley, Prometh. Unb., IV. 380. Making shiver Thought’s stagnant chaos, unremoved for ever.

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1873.  Symonds, Grk. Poets, x. 325. The mountain stands for ever unremoved.

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  † 2.  Firm, steadfast, constant. Obs.

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1589.  Rare Tri. Love & Fort., II. M 4. The unremoved love I beare my lady.

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1606.  G. W[oodcocke], Hist. Ivstine, xv. 64. With an vnremooued courage, neither arrogant in happinesse, nor altred in distresse.

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1627.  Drayton, Elegies, To Lady I. S., 85. Your noble heart … With vnremoued constancie is still The same it was.

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1655.  Earl Orrery, Parthen., II. VIII. 816. An unremoved resolve of sharing in his despair.

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