ppl. a. Forms: (see BURY v.). [UN-1 8.] Not buried; not interred.
a. 900. O. E. Martyrol., 22 Jan., 28. Se casere þa bebead þæt hine man forlete unbyrʓedne.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 352. Þe dead nis [v.r. ne wis] nout of, þauh he ligge unburied & rotie buuen eorðe.
1297. R. Glouc. (Rolls), 4486. Men bysyde of þe lond he let burye is fon, Vor he ne kepte uor reuþe þat þer were vnbured non.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Frankl. T., 713. His loue rather for to dyen chees Than for to suffre his body vnburyed be.
c. 1430. Life St. Kath. (1884), 59. He bad þat … her hedes [should be] smyten of and her bodyes left vnburyed.
1460. Capgrave, Chron. (Rolls), 75. xxx. dayes lay his body onburied, til Seynt Petir … had him bery it.
1513. Douglas, Æneid, XI. vii. 191. So that we … Be nocht down strowit in the feildis ded, In cumpaneis vnberyit or bewalit.
1560. Daus, trans. Sleidane’s Comm., 286 b. Wherof the one departed xi yeares past,… and remayned unburied hitherto.
1600. Hakluyt, Voy., III. 806. Euery Fort had in it one cast peece, which peeces were buryed in the ground, the cariages were standing in their place vnburied.
1697. Dryden, Æneis, XI. 4. The pious chief, whom double cares attend For his unbury’d soldiers and his friend.
a. 1745. Swift, Hen. II., Wks. 1768, IV. 317. When he … found that … he must draw upon himself the scandal of keeping a father unburied.
1836. Thirlwall, Greece, III. xxvi. 449. The sight of the unburied dead struck their surviving friends with pious grief.
1891. Farrar, Darkn. & Dawn, lxv. The stench of an unburied corpse which lay by the roadside.
