ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. Unslackened, unrelaxed.
1593. Nashe, Christ’s T., 24 b. God is mooued and mollified … with often, and vnslacked intercessions.
1848. Aird, Herod. & Azala, I. i. Still their [sc. lions’] fronts were racked With lust of blood, their forms were still unslacked.
2. Of lime: (see SLACKED ppl. a. 2).
1656. Earl Monm., trans. Boccalini’s Advts. fr. Parnass., I. xxi. (1674), 22. Tyrannies are laid with … the unslackt Lime of … injustice.
1703. Moxon, Mech. Exerc., 286. Unslackt or Quick Lime.
1760. Brown, Compl. Farmer, II. 17. Unslacked lime beat to powder.
1808. Phil. Trans., XCVIII. 346. They … were in the highly caustic or unslacked state.
c. 1860. H. Stuart, Seaman’s Catech., 63. Neither should unslacked line … be allowed below.
3. Of thirst, etc.: Not slacked.
1798. Coleridge, Anc. Mar., III. iv. With throat unslack’d [1805 unslaked], with black lips bak’d Ne could we laugh, ne wail.
