ppl. a. Forms: (see BURN v.). [UN-1 8 and 8 b. Cf. MDu. ungebernt, -brant, Du. ongebrand, G. ungebrannt, ON. and Icel. úbrendr, óbrendr (Sw. obränd, Da. ubrændt).]
1. Not burnt or consumed by fire.
a. 1290. S. Eng. Leg., I. 29/97. His bones þat weren bi-left vn-barnd amidde þe se to caste.
c. 1440. Alph. Tales, 162. Þat was fon ynbyrnyd emang þe hate colis.
1563. Foxe, A. & M., 1224/1. I will geue vi fagottes to burne the with all or thou shuldest be vnburned.
1607. Shaks., Cor., V. i. 27. He said, ’twas folly, For one poore graine or two, to leaue vnburnt, And still to nose th’ offence.
1623. Bingham, Xenophon, 57. They came … to the vnburnt villages, setting afire the villages, where they last quartered.
1676. Grew, Exper. Luctation, iii. § 11. Egg-shells … being burnt, are far stronger Medicines, than when unburnt.
1715. Desaguliers, Fires Impr., 133. Put what Wood is left unburn’d over them.
1849. W. J. Thoms, trans. Worsaae’s Primeval Antiq. Denmark, etc., 94. At the base of the hill we meet with the ancient cromlechs or giants’ chambers, with unburnt bodies and objects of stone.
1884. Health Exhib. Catal., 71/2. Stoves … constructed specially to bring all the air into the room … pure and warm but unburnt.
β. c. 1384. Chaucer, H. Fame, I. 173. Anchises … Bare the goddesse of the londe Thilke that vnbrende were.
1412–20. Lydg., Chron. Troy, IV. 6527. Þei ne lefte with-inne þe cite No þing vnbrent.
c. 1450. Mirk’s Festial, 163. So [he] sauet his bokes vnbrent þrogh þe grace and þe mercy of God.
1509. Barclay, Shyp of Folys (1570), 171. Because the lightning or thunder violent … suffreth thee and thy house to be vnbrent.
1568. Grafton, Chron., II. 346. They … made a road into Scotland,… and left nothing vnbrent to Edenbourgh.
γ. c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, xxvii. (Machor), 188. Þe barne stil can ly, Ay kepand it sa godis grace Þat in þe fyr vnbrynt it was.
c. 1480. Henryson, Annunciation, 40. The low of luf haldand þe hete Vnbrynt full blithlie birnis.
1555. Sc. Acts, Mary (1814), II. 490/1. Gif samekill restis vnbrint of the haill tenement.
1571–2. Reg. Privy Council Scot., II. 121. For sauftie of the houssis … being within the same unbrint and dimolissit.
fig. a. 1584. Montgomerie, Cherrie & Slae (1597), 243. Bot now na bluid in me remaines, Vnbrunt and bruilȝeit throw my vaines, Be luiffis bellowes blawin.
2. Not subjected to the action of fire for a specific purpose. Esp. of bricks, clay, lime, etc.
1626. Bacon, Sylva, § 898. We see also, that burnt wine is more hard and astringent, than wine unburnt.
c. 1650. Norgate, Miniatura (1919), 15. Cologne Earth unburnt … is a very good colour for deepe shadowes.
1815. Elphinstone, Acc. Caubul (1842), I. 305. The commonest house by far is built of unburned brick.
1877. Raymond, Statist. Mines & Mining, 382. When the pile is finished the outside crust of unburned pyrites is taken off and put onto the next pile.
