1. Not freed from error or inexactness; not revised or emended.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), III. 73. He putte Ianeuer and Feuerrer to þe bygynnynge of þe ȝere, and so þe ȝere lefte among þe Romayns vncorrected anon to Iulius Cesar his tyme.
1548. Elyot, Incorrectus,… vncorrected.
1598. Florio, Scorretto, vncorrected, vnpolished, rude, rough.
1699. Bentley, Phalaris, 251. Whole Lines were omitted by the Stone-Cutter, and pass’d uncorrected.
1711. G. Hickes, Two Treat. Chr. Priesth. (ed. 3), I. 170. If these holy Men’s Notion … be … a Mistake, it … stood uncorrected for almost sixteen hundred Years.
1798. Southey, Lett. (1856), I. 55. They are, I know, hastily written and uncorrected.
1819. Shelley, Lett., Pr. Wks. 1888, II. 299. You are to write me uncorrected letters, just as the words come.
1837. Goring & Pritchard, Microgr., 77. Perfectly direct day-light also gives apparent achromatism with any common uncorrected lenses.
2. Not chastised or punished.
1475. Bk. Noblesse (Roxb.), 56. So many wrecchid synnes as among us dailie uncorrectid hathe reigned.
1513. More, Hist. Rich. III., Wks. 40/1. Robbers and riuers walking at libertie vncorrected.
1548. Elyot, Incastigatus,… not chastised: vncorrected.
1647. Hexham, I. Vncorrected, ongestraft.
1670. Baxter, Cure Ch. Div., 338. Parents must not be so patient with sin as to leave their children uncorrected.
3. Not improved by training or discipline; not guided into the proper course.
1599. Shaks., Hen. V., V. ii. 50. The freckled Cowslip, Burnet and greene Clouer, Wanting the Sythe, withall vncorrected, ranke; Conceiues by idlenesse.
1718. Freethinker, No. 23, ¶ 6. Amongst the many Abuses, of which we stand uncorrected.
1750. Carte, Hist. Eng., II. 790. A fine youth, but … having too much of his mother’s spirit, uncorrected as yet by reflection and experience.
1865. Froude, Short Stud. (1867), I. 161. Submissiveness, humility, obedience produce if uncorrected in politics a nation of slaves.
4. Not counteracted or neutralized.
1694. Salmon, Bate’s Dispens. (1713), 373/2. If any of the kinds of Flowers be used uncorrected, it is much better to use their Infusion in Wine.
1825. Scott, Betrothed, xxi. During slumber, when Imagination, uncorrected by the organs of sense, weaves her own fantastic web.
1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VI. 829. Such consequences may be produced in uncorrected hypermetropia.
