ppl. a. Also 4 vnuenkushid, 5 vnuenquiste, 6 Sc. unvencust, wnwencust, etc. [UN-1 8.] Not vanquished or overcome; unsubdued.
1382. Wyclif, Ecclus. xviii. 1. God alone … dwelleth vnuenkushid king withoute ende.
a. 1400[?]. Morte Arth., 2049. The vassalage of Viterbe to daye schalle be reuengede! Vnuenquiste for þis place voyde schalle I neuer!
c. 1510. More, Picus, Wks. 23. Enforce thy self … to stande, Unvainquished against the deuils might.
1548. Udall, etc., Erasm. Par. John, xvi. 97 b. Ye shalbe through my spirite strong and vnuanquished.
1614. Gorges, Lucan, VI. 221. Deare mates we yet vnuanquisht stand.
1697. Dryden, Æneis, V. 290. Unvanquished Scylla now alone remains.
1770. Glover, Leonidas (ed. 5), II. 49. The gods conceal, how long our strength May stand unvanquish’d.
1820. Shelley, Prometh. Unb., I. 315. ’Tis but some passing spasm, The Titan is unvanquished still.
1883. J. Parker, Apost. Life, II. 279. Such an unvanquished devil mocks the impotent exorcist.
