ppl. a. Forms: 7 vnnaneld, 8 unanell’d, 9 -el’d, -eled; 8 unanneald, 8–9 -ealed, 9 -eal’d, unaneal’d, -ealed. [UN-1 8.] Not having received extreme unction. Also fig.
1602. Shaks., Ham., I. v. 77. Cut off euen in the Blossomes of my Sinne, Vnhouzzled, disappointed, vnnaneld.
1740[?]. W. Thompson, Hymn to May, xxix. O may the man that shall his image scorn,… Die unanell’d and dead, by dogs and kites be torn.
1759. Sterne, Tr. Shandy, II. x. Obadiah had led him in as he was, unwiped, unappointed, unannealed.
1816. Byron, Siege Cor., xxvii. Unanel’d he pass’d away,… To the last a Renegade.
a. 1851. Moir, De Quincey’s Rev., II. viii. How awful it is for the soul of man Unanneal’d to pass away!
1897. Abp. Benson, Cyprian, 98. The divine acceptance of the unaneled penitent.
