ppl. a. [UN-1 8 b, 8 c: cf. prec.]
1. Not (yet) built or erected.
1455–6. Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889), 290. Yf yt be unbylyt aftyr the fyrst yere … than the Mayre … shold require hym to repeyre hit.
1582. Stanyhurst, Æneis, III. (Arb.), 74. Theare picht he his kingdoom, for then Troy cittye was vnbuylt, And castels stood not.
1612. Drayton, Poly-olb., iv. 375. Tuisco, Gomer’s son, from unbuilt Babel brought His people to that place.
1697. Collier, Ess. Mor. Subj., II. (ed. 2), 5. The Rhodian Colossus had been lost;… the Egyptian Pyramids unbuilt.
1861. Beresf. Hope, Eng. Cathedr. 19th C., iv. 112. As I have given some unbuilt designs of modern architects.
b. Made without building.
1882. J. Parker, Apost. Life, I. 48. Elijah hid himself in an unbuilt chamber in the rock.
2. Of land: Not occupied with buildings; not built on or upon.
1631. Weever, Anc. Funeral Mon., 607. All which he pulled downe,… leauing the ground vnbuilt for a Cemitery or Churchyard.
1819. in Picton, L’pool Munic. Rec. (1886), II. 378. Such part of their unbuilt land as will be sufficient for a Public Market.
1855. [J. R. Leifchild], Cornwall, 66. Scarcely in any other district so open and unbuilt on, would you find the agriculturist so completely subdued.
1893. A. Cawston, Street Improv. London, 124. In the as yet unbuilt parts grounds are to be reserved.
