ppl. a. (UN-1 8 b.)
a. 1300. Cursor M., 2847. Es noþer leued, ne tre, ne gress, Ne nathing of þat land vn-sonken [v.rr. vn-sunkyn, vnsunke].
c. 1586. C’tess Pembroke, Ps. LXIX. vi. Keepe me safe unsunck, unmyred.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. xii. § 56. Not halfe of their Shippes escaped vntaken or vnsuncke.
a. 1687. H. More, Conject. Cabbal. (1713), 77. The Angels and the Souls of Men unsunk into generation. [Ibid. All Souls as they descend εἰς γένεσιν.]
c. 1740. A. Hill, To Author of ‘Pamela,’ 28. What … Though taste like thine each void of time can fill, Unsunk by spleen.
1824. Byron, Juan, XVI. xcix. The Sinking Fund’s unfathomable sea … leaves The debt unsunk, yet sinks all it receives.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., I. II. iv. Nimble old man, who … in the worst confusion will emerge, cork-like, unsunk.
