ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. Not urged or incited to some course of action.
1590. Shaks., Com. Err., II. ii. 115. The time was once, when thou vn-vrg’d wouldst vow, That neuer words were musicke to thine eare.
1628. Feltham, Resolves, I. xxxv. 33. If hee reueales ought vn-vrged, my aduice is … free.
1648. Herrick, Hesper., Twelfe Night, iii. Let not a man then be seen here, Who unurg’d will not drinke.
1838. Fr. A. Kemble, Rec. Later Life, I. 187. [The] teeming soil produced, unurged, the means of life.
1868. Geo. Eliot, Sp. Gipsy, 243. You … are brave, unurged by aught Save the sweet overflow of your good will.
2. Not thrust or pressed upon one.
1594. Kyd, Cornelia, IV. i. 160. Shall we then … Submit vs to vnurged slauerie?
1595. Shaks., John, V. ii. 10. Albeit we sweare … an vn-urg’d Faith, To your proceedings.
a. 1614. Donne, Βιαθανατος (1644), 37. Augustine, Anselm, and Hierome, betray themselves by unurged confessions.
a. 1689. Mrs. Behn, Fair Jilt (1887), 33. She leaves nothing unurged that might debauch and invite him.
1728. Eliza Heywood, trans. Mme. de Gomez’s Belle A. (1732), II. 128. Being one day alone with his Son, he … left unurg’d those Arguments which he had prepar’d in his Mind.
