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1297. R. Glouc. (Rolls), 7667. Muche lond þer is As al wast & vntuled [v.rr. vntyled, -teled].
1377. Langl., P. Pl., B. XV. 451. Heth and vntiled erthe.
1382. Wyclif, Ezek. xxxvi. 36. I the Lord haue … plantid vntilied [1388 vntilid] thingus.
1445. in Anglia, XXVIII. 277. Londys which were vntilied.
1469. Paston Lett., Suppl. (1901), 128. Thei byd them lete there land lye on tilled.
1538. Starkey, England, 12. The erth … els schold haue leyne … rude and vntyllyd.
1598. Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. i. Eden, 598. There lives the Sea-Oak in a little shell; There growes untill’d the ruddy Cochenel.
1638. Junius, Paint. Ancients, 245. An unbroken or untilled ground.
1674[?]. Traherne, Poems Felicity (1910), 86. A Globe of Gold must Barren be, Untill’d & Useless.
1766. Compl. Farmer, s.v. Hoeing, The tilled earth receives an advantage from these dews, which the untilled does not.
1819. Shelley, England, 7. A people starved and stabbed in the untilled field.
1874. Stubbs, Const. Hist., I. ii. 19. The wide forests and untilled plains are commion property.
fig. 1592. R. D., Hypnerotomachia, 95. Fearing to offend hir … with my rude and vntilled toong.
1651. Jer. Taylor, Holy Dying, ii. § 4. His beastly nature, and desart and untilled manners.
1803. Wordsw., Poems Nat. Indep., I. xx. 6. Men unto whom … minds not stinted or untilled are given.
