ppl. a. [UN-1 8 b. Cf. ON. and Icel. úsleginn in sense 2, MSw. oslaghin in sense 1, Sw. oslagen in sense 3.]
1. Not put to death; not killed.
c. 1250. Gen. & Ex., 1332. Ðe wurð abraham friȝti faȝen, for ysaac bi-leaf un-slaȝen.
13[?]. Gaw. & Gr. Knt., 1858. Myȝ[t] he haf slypped to be vn-slayn, þe sleȝt were noble.
c. 1400. Laud Troy Bk., 18250. Prest, ne clerk,… Leffte the Gregais non vn-sclayn.
1470–85. Malory, Arthur, X. lix. 515. I shalle be with yow by that day yf I be vnslayne or vnmaymed.
a. 1533. Ld. Berners, Gold. Bk. M. Aurel., ii. (1535), 101 b. They leaue no cattayle vnslayne, no gardeyne vnrobbed.
1555. Phaër, Æneid, III. (1558), F iiij. Saue of Troy this last remayne, The leauinges of Achilles wyld and Grekes abiectes onslayne.
1633. T. Stafford, Pac. Hib., I. ix. (1821), 117. The rest which were unslaine, returned into the Castle.
a. 1661. Holyday, Juvenal (1673), 187. To Ceres’s son-in-law few kings descend Unslain.
1715. Tickell, Iliad, I. 112. Nor does the god complain Of vows withheld or hecatombs unslain.
fig. c. 1412. Hoccleve, De Reg. Princ., 1972. O deth!… his hy vertu astertith Vnslayn fro þe.
1674. R. Godfrey, Inj. & Ab. Physic, 8. Spurious Mercurial [remedies], and ill-made Antimonial ones, that … have the Mercury unslain.
1779. Cowper, Olney Hymns, lvii. One sin, unslain, within my breast, Would make that heav’n as dark as hell.
† 2. Uncut, unmown. Obs.
c. 1440. Pallad. on Husb., I. 239. Lupyne and ficchis slayn … are as dongyng, londis boote. And let hem drie vnslayn, and vp they drinke The londis juce.
