ppl. a. (UN-1 8.)
1456. Sir G. Hay, Gov. Princes, Wks. (S.T.S.), II. 125. The mannis persone restis … in the nycht, and the membris and the wit ar bathe unvexit.
1485. Acta Dom. Conc. (1839), *94/1. To be … Joisit be him vnvext be þaim bot as law will.
1508. Reg. Privy Seal Scotl., I. 234/2. To … defend [them] … unvexit and undistroublit.
1595. Shaks., John, II. i. 253. With a blessed and vn-vext retyre,… We will beare home that lustie blood againe.
1611. Donne, Anat. World, 363. In whom all white, and red, and blew (Beauties ingredients) voluntary grew, As in an unvext Paradise.
1697. Dryden, Virg. Georg., II. 659. Unvex’d with Quarrels, undisturb’d with Noise.
1791. Huddesford, Salmag., 105. Unvex’d by the cares that ambition and state has.
1809. Malkin, Gil Blas, VIII. ii. ¶ 9. Which put forth shoots like a plantation in a fat and unvexed soil.
1864. Tennyson, En. Arden, 526. Unvext She slipt across the summer of the world.
1869. Lowell, Ode to Happiness, 71. These in unvexed dependence lie, Each ’neath his strip of household sky.
