ppl. a. Now arch. [OE. unwæscen (UN-1 8 b). Cf. (M)Du. ongewasschen, MLG., MHG., and G. ungewaschen, OHG. ungiwasgan.] = UNWASHED ppl. a. Also fig.
c. 1000. Sax. Leechd., II. 108. Nim siʓelhweorfan þa smalan unwæscene.
c. 1200. Trin. Coll. Hom., 57. On swinke, on unwasshen weden, on smerte swinginge.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 82. Ful speche is as of lecherie, & of oðre fulðen þet unweaschene muðes spekeð oðer hwule.
13[?]. E. E. Allit. P., B. 34. For-þy hyȝ not to heuen in haterez to-torne, Ne in þe harlotez hod & handez vnwaschen.
1388. Wyclif, Mark vii. 2. Whanne thei hadden seen summe of hise disciplis ete breed with vnwaisschen hoondis.
1421–2. Hoccleve, Min. Poems, 116/182. Vnwasshen gold shall wasshe a-way that vice.
c. 1430. Lydg., Min. Poems (Percy Soc.), 256. Loth to ryse … With unwassh handys reedy to dyneer.
c. 1450. M. E. Med. Bk. (Heinrich), 124. Take vnwasshe loombes wolle.
1526. Tindale, Matt. xv. 20. To eate with vnwesshen hondes defyleth nott a man.
1608. Bp. Hall, Pharisaism & Christ (1609), 642. The Pharise [finds fault] with vnwashen hands.
1648. J. Beaumont, Psyche, XVI. lxxvi. Prophane unwashen feet farr hence must be, This holy ground belongs to Sanctity.
1832. Gen. P. Thompson, Exerc. (1842), II. 42. Whoever has brains so unwashen as to give up the guidance of himself … to any man.
1856. Hawthorne, Eng. Note-bks. (1870), II. 44. The town … has a very sordid, grimy, shabby, unswept, unwashen aspect.
1870. Morris, Earthly Par., II. III. 435. So from the lower end they came, ill clad, Houseless, unwashen, yet with faces glad.
