ppl. a. (UN-1 8.)
1595. Shaks., John, II. i. 225. To saue vnscratch’d your Citties threatned cheekes.
a. 1667. Jer. Taylor, Lib. Proph. (1817), 394. They are his image undefiled, unscratched, unbroken by any act or consent of their own.
1853. Dickens, Bleak Ho., lxiii. You must make up your mind to remain unscratched [sc. out of a will].
