ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. Not tried, proved, or tested.
1526. Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 132. That no worde passe out vntryed & nothynge entre vnexamyned.
a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, I. iii. Her skin like burnisht gold, her hands like silver ure untryde.
1591. Spenser, F. Q., I. iii. 34. Loth was that other … To taste th’ vntryed dint of deadly steele.
1647. Cowley, Mistr., Encrease, iii. So the new-made, and untride Spheres above, Took their first turn from th’ hand of Jove.
1697. Dryden, Virg. Georg., IV. 781. Four fair Heifars yet in Yoke untry’d.
1739. Labelye, Piers Westm. Bridge, 28. Not to leave one single square Foot in the whole Surface of the Foundation untried.
1783. Crabbe, Village, II. 146. When smit with Glory’s charms, The untried youth first quits a father’s arms.
1833. Ht. Martineau, Cinnamon & Pearls, v. 95. Can anything equal the presumption of human decisions on untried matters!
1871. Dixon, Tower, III. i. 1. A man of untried power.
absol. 1839. Carlyle, Chartism, ix. The New, Untried ascertains how it will fit itself into the arrangements of the Old.
1887. Meredith, Ballads & P., 112. She marched toward the gloomy gate Of earth’s Untried.
2. Not tried by a judge.
a. 1618. Sylvester, Job, IV. 12. Against Job began his wrath to Name,… And … his Foe-friends, for so strict Condemning Job, untry’d and unconvict.
1784. Cowper, Task, V. 398. Condemn’d untried, Cruelly spar’d, and hopeless of escape!
1824. S. Smith, Wks. (1859), II. 32. Cruel Treatment of Untried Prisoners.
1842. Dickens, Amer. Notes, v. The best Jail for untried offenders in the world.
