1. Not supplied or provided with something.
1599. Q. Eliz., in Moryson Itin. (1617), II. 56. Therefore we command you, not onely to raise no more [men], when these shall be decaied, but to keepe them vnsupplied [sc. with money] that are already.
1618. Hales, Lett. fr. Synod of Dort, Gold. Rem. (1673), 23. When the Church was unsupplied, either by the death, or absence, or sickness of their Pastor.
1709. Strype, Ann. Ref., vii. 106. Forced to keep them [sc. divines] in the Church, lest otherwise it should be wholly unsupplied.
1712. Steele, Spect., No. 294, ¶ 1. Every Man who is … unmindful of the unsupplied Distress of other Men.
1784. Cowper, Task, V. 31. The cattle … wait Their wonted fodder; not like hung’ring man, Fretful if unsupply’d.
b. Const. with (also † by, of).
1616. Hieron, Wks., II. 37. They … shall not be left vnsupplyed of earthly things.
1652. Davenant, Verses to Author, in Benlowes, Theoph. Her Pow’r,… which unsupply’d By what wise Art would carefully provide, Is but love’s lightning.
1740. Johnson, Blake, Wks. 1787, IV. 360. The town was … unsupplied with almost every thing necessary for supporting a siege.
1844. Stocqueler, Handbk. Brit. India, 254. Its principal defect, as a place besieged, would consist in its being … unsupplied with drinkable water.
2. Not met or satisfied; not made up or replaced.
1616. Breton, Good & Bad, 2. A Worthy King:… his bosome must not be searched, his will not disobeyed, his wants not unsupplied, nor his place vnregarded.
1700. Dryden, Sigism. & Guiscard., 38. But, prodigal in ev’ry other Grant, Her Sire left unsupply’d her only Want.
1768. Blackstone, Comm., III. 385. These defects,… should they, after all, continue unremedied and unsupplied, still [etc.].
1788. V. Knox, Winter Even., lii. (1790), I. 453. Nor is the loss of a Goldsmith’s … sentimental strain unsupplied by a Cowper.
3. Not provided or furnished.
1808. G. Edwards, Pract. Plan, iv. 59. In fine, nothing need be left unsupplied in any respect.
