Unbathed

ppl. a. (UN-¹ 8.)

1570.  Foxe, A. & M. (ed. 2), I. 57. He leaped out of the bathe vnbathed, because he feared the bathe shoulde haue fallen.

a. 1625.  Fletcher, etc., Love’s Pilgr., III. ii. Let her but shew me A ruin’d cheek like mine, that holds his colour:… An unbathed body.

1697.  Dryden, Æneis, VII. 1103. Her flying feet unbathed on billows hung. Ibid. (1700), Cymon & Iph., 599. The Blade return’d unbath’d, and to the Handle bent.

1791.  Cowper, Odyss., XIX. 409. For how, my honour’d inmate! shalt thou learn … if unbathed, unoil’d, Ill-clad, thou sojourn here?

1803.  Visct. Strangford, Poems of Camoens, Sonn., xx. (1810), 106. Not unbath’d by Memory’s warmest tear!

1888.  Pall Mall G., 12 Sept., 2/2. During the three days that we spent under his roof I remained unbathed.