ppl. a. (UN-1 8.)

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a. 1639.  Spottiswoode, Hist. Ch. Scot. (1655), II. 97. He was … much hated by the clergy…. Notthelesse he went unchallenged and was not brought in question.

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1805.  Scott, Last Minstr., V. xii. Unchallenged thus, the warder’s post, The court, unchallenged, thus he cross’d.

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1847, 1880.  [see UNCHALLENGEABLE a.].

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1898.  ‘Merriman,’ Roden’s Corner, xvii. 176. ‘Yes,’ continued the unchallenged speaker, in … the typical voice of the tavern-talker.

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