Unripened

ppl. a. (UN-¹ 8.)

1588.  Kyd, Househ. Philos., Wks. (1901), 244. Mellons … that … taste like Goords and Cowgomers which also hang vpon the earth vnripened.

1589.  [? Lyly], Pappe w. Hatchet, D iij b. Vnripened youthes, whose wisedomes are yet in the blade.

1611.  Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. xii. § 63. 682/2. They would not haue found that euer this Iland brought forth a Prince of such excellency at so vnripened yeares.

1675.  Han. Woolley, Gentlew. Comp., 181. Take of unripened Galls one dram.

1720.  Pope, Iliad, XXIII. 671. The errors of unripen’d age.

1768–74.  Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), II. 228. To … wade through the mud of indolence, with the slender staff of unripened reason.

1831.  Scott, Ct. Rob., ix. The vehemence of their own appetite for raw fruits and unripened wines.

1895.  Cent. Mag., Aug., 547/2. All the unripened nymphs that played at hide-and-seek among the maples.