ppl. a. [UN-1 8.] Not provided with, or placed in, a tomb. Also transf.
1560. J. Heywood, Thyestes, D i. That whiche the worste was wont to be, were heere a wisshed thyng, That them theyr father sawe vntombde [L. insepultos].
1582. Stanyhurst, Æneis, I. (Arb.), 29. But loa, the proper image of corps vntumbed apeered In dreame too Dido.
1818. Milman, Samor, IV. 510. The burial on cold battle field, unhymn’d, Unmourn’d, untomb’d. Ibid., XII. 234. Th’ untomb’d slumbers of far battle vales.
1835. Talfourd, Ion, IV. i. Spirits that have left … their plague-tormented flesh To rot untomb’d.
