Unslept

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8 b, c.]

  1.  Not having slept.

a. 1500.  Chaucer’s Dreme, 1836. An aged knight … With visage … pale, as man longe unslept.

1500–20.  Dunbar, Poems, lxxviii. 9. The sentence lay full evill till find, Vnsleipit in my heid behind.

1876.  J. Grant, One of the ‘600,’ i. 10. My poor mother, pale, anxious, and unslept,… stole softly into my room.

1894.  Froude, Life & Lett. Erasmus, 230. I hurry on board unsupped and unslept.

  2.  Not slept in; not slept off.

1821.  Byron, Sardanap., I. ii. Is this moment A fitting one for the resumption of Thy yet unslept-off revels?

1864.  Miss Yonge, Trial, I. 289. She had … found … never before, Mr. Ward’s bed unslept in.

1880.  Mrs. Parr, Adam & Eve, xxxv. 476. The untasted food, the unslept-in bed.