Unbroke

ppl. a. [var. of next.]

  1.  = UNBROKEN ppl. a. 1.

a. 1325.  MS. Rawl. B. 520, fol. 31 b. Þulke þat we graunteden to holde … in þe forme hol bi-forseide ant vnbroke.

c. 1460.  Oseney Reg., 14. Ordeynyng þat all maner possessions … to þem, and to þere successours sure and vnbroke abyde. Ibid., 161. Þat sure and vnbroke hit abide.

1593.  Shaks., Rich. II., IV. i. 215. God keepe all Vowes vnbroke are made to thee.

a. 1637.  B. Jonson, Underw., to Brownie. See, that thou By off’ring not more sureties, than inow, Hold thyne owne worth unbroke.

  2.  = UNBROKEN ppl. a. 2. Also fig.

1632.  Lithgow, Trav., V. 182. These Iarres are all … interlarded with pitch to preserue the earthen vessells vnbroke a sunder.

1725.  Pope, Odyss., VIII. 149. How broad his shoulders spread! By age unbroke!

1762.  Wilkes, Corr. (1805), III. 43. I … return it with the seal unbroke, as the clearest demonstration that I never have read the contents of it.

1805.  Scott, Last Minstrel, IV. xxi. Unbroke by age, erect his seat.

1845.  Longf., Arrow, iii. Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke.

  3.  = UNBROKEN ppl. a. 4.

a. 1716.  Addison, trans. Horace, III. iii. Wild from the desart and unbroke: In vain they foam’d.

1743.  Francis, trans. Hor., Odes, II. v. 1. See, thy Heifer’s yet unbroke To the Labours of the Yoke.

1810.  Southey, Kehama, VIII. ii. His neck unbroke to mortal yoke, Like Nature free the Steed must be.

1842.  Borrow, Bible in Spain, xix. He was a black Andalusian stallion,… unbroke, savage, and furious.

1865.  Tom Taylor, Ballads & Songs of Brittany, 172.

  4.  = UNBROKEN ppl. a. 5.

1793.  Wordsw., Evening Walk, 429. The scene is waken’d, yet its peace unbroke, By silver’d wreaths of quiet charcoal smoke.

1808.  Scott, Marm., III. vi. All gaz’d at length in silence drear, Unbroke, save when … Some yeoman … whisper’d forth his mind.

1816.  Byron, Siege Cor., xi. That deep silence was unbroke, Save where the watch his signal spoke.