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  1.  = UNBUILT ppl. a.

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1519.  in Somerset. & Dorset. N. & Q. (1893), III. 244. Every half yere that the said sidehouse shall be unbuylded or unreedefyed.

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1535.  Coverdale, Isaiah vi. 11. Till the londe be also desolate, and lye vnbuylded.

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1560.  Pilkington, Expos. Aggeus (1562), 163. Chuse you whether ye will let my house lye unbuylded stil,… or ye will repare it diligently.

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  fig.  1594.  Hooker, Eccl. Pol., II. vii. § 5. When bare and vnbuilded conclusions are put into their mindes … they fall into anguish and perplexitie.

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  2.  Not employed in building.

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1867.  Howells, Ital. Journ., iii. 21. Mixing their weary brick and mortar with the earth’s unbuilded dust.

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