Unstirring

ppl. a. (UN-¹ 5 d, 10.)

  1.  Not causing to stir or give way. rare.^–1

c. 1375.  Sc. Leg. Saints, vii. (Jas. minor), 785. Al vnsterynge þe stekyne Of þe presone & þe selynge.

  2.  Not stirring or moving; inactive.

a. 1684.  Leighton, Comm. 1 Peter iv. (1849), II. 323. A slothful, unstirring life, will make a sickly, unhealthy life.

1818.  Milman, Samor, III. 210. The dead unstirring ocean bears them on.

a. 1851.  Moir, Night-Hawk, i. The midnight moon Looks sombred o’er the forest depths, that sleep Unstirring.