† 1. Untilled, uncultivated. Obs.
1578. Lyte, Dodoens, I. ii. 4. The common wormwood groweth naturally in … dry, rude, and untoyled places.
1601. Holland, Pliny, II. 224. It commeth up … in untoiled and neglected places, and namely, common high waies.
a. 1633. G. Herbert, trans. Cornarus on Temp. (1634), 40. The reducing of many rude and untoiled places … to cultivation.
1683. J. Reid, Scots Gard’ner (1907), 80. Trenching doth well prepare … untoil’d ground.
2. Not subjected to, or overcome by, toil.
1598. Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. ii. Babylon, 262. Un-toyld, un-tutor’d, sucking tender food, We learn’d a langunge all men understood.
1649. G. Daniel, Trinarch., Hen. V., ccli. A Iollitie Sprung from vntoyled Limbes.
1744. Eliza Heywood, Female Spect., No. 9 (1748), II. 143. He who preserves it [sc. hope] … is untoiled with disappointment, and never loses the prospect of his wish.
3. Not toiled for; got without toil.
1651. H. Vaughan, Olor Iscanus, To best Couple 20. Like the dayes Warmth may all your Comforts be, Untoil’d for, and Serene as he.
