Unabsolved

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8. Cf. G. unabsolviert.]

  1.  Not absolved. Also const. of.

1611.  Florio, Innassolto, vnabsolued.

1681.  Baxter, Acc. Sherlocke, iv. 186. Who shall Absolve the Patriarchs, Primates,… &c.? Must they be Unabsolved till a General Council do it?

1765.  Sterne, Tr. Shandy, VII. xxiv. If we are ravished and die unabsolved of them.

1819.  Scott, Ivanhoe, xliii. Slay him not,… unshriven and unabsolved.

1844.  Lady G. Fullerton, Ellen Middleton, III. xxi. 68. [I] always let him draw near to the altar alone; for, unforgiven, unabsolved, unreconciled, I dared not approach it.

  † 2.  Unsettled, undecided. Obs.

  An alteration of UNABSOILED ppl. a.

1721.  Strype, Eccl. Mem., I. 33. So that doubt remaineth not [sic] unabsolved.