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1. That has not travelled.
1585. T. Washington, trans. Nicholay’s Voy., Ep. Ded. They are among men vntrauelled as Hesperus among the smaller.
1611. Beaum & Fl., Philaster, I. i. If they should, I say, they were never abroad:… it writes them directly untravel’d.
1667. Sprat, Hist. R. Soc., 73. Untravell’d Gentlemen,… and Generals, that had scarce ever before seen a Battel.
1712. Addison, Spect., No. 407, ¶ 1. That an untravelled Englishman cannot relish all the Beauties of Italian Pictures.
1812. Scott, Lett., in Lockhart (1837), III. 19. Sophia and Walter hold their heads very high among their untravelled companions.
a. 1862. Buckle, Misc. Wks. (1872), I. 524. We rarely find an untravelled man who is not full of prejudice.
transf. and fig. 1606. Sir G. Goosecappe, I. ii. B i. Fo. Why this is the vntrauaild rudnes of our Grose Englesh ladies now.
1764. Goldsm., Traveller, 8. Where’er I roam,… My heart untravell’d fondly turns to thee.
1805. Ann. Rev., III. 199. The author is apparently untravelled in continental literature.
1861. Geo. Eliot, Silas M., i. To their untravelled thought a state of wandering was a conception as dim as the winter life of the swallows.
2. Not travelled over or through.
1661. Feltham, Resolves, II. xlix. 281. He … that is illiterate, and unactively lives hamletted in some untravail’d village.
a. 1720. J. Hughes, Ode to Creator, 35. Beyond the untravell’d limits of the sky.
1762. Falconer, Shipwr., 335. Pilots, tutor’d to divine Th’ untravel’d course by geometric line.
1809–14. Wordsw., Excurs., VI. 455. To the deep shade of those untravelled Wilds.
1864. R. S. Hawker, Quest Sangraal, 41. Neither landmarks, nor fences, bounded … the bold, free, and untravelled Cornish domain.
fig. 1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., To Rdr. A 5. Wee … are oft-times faine to wander in America and untravelled parts of truth.
1672. Lloyd, F. S. on Bp. Wilkins, 27. He shewed it in whatsoever Argument he undertook; sometimes beating out new untravel’d ways, sometimes repairing those that had been beaten already.
