ppl. a. [UN-1 8. Cf. Du. ongezengd.] Not singed; untouched by fire.

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1599.  [see UNSEARED].

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1646.  Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., VII. x. 358. He was cast into a Cauldron of burning oyle, and came out againe unsinged.

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1697.  Dryden, Æneis, XI. 1158. By thee protected, with our naked soles, Through flames unsinged we march.

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1737.  Earl Orrery, Lett. to Swift, 15 March. Let the thunder burst where it will, so that you are safe, and unsinged.

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1755.  Doddridge, ‘Let Jacob,’ iv. Then let the fires their rage display,… Unburnt, unsinged, He leads them through.

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1834.  T. Moore, in Walpole, Life Ld. J. Russell (1889), I. 203. You at least come safe and unsinged out of the furnace.

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a. 1850.  Bryant, Medit. Rhode Isl. Coal, 54. That men might to thy inner caves retire, And there, unsinged, abide the day of fire.

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