Undead

a. [UN-¹ 7. Cf. ON. údauðr.] Not dead; alive.

a. 1400–50.  Alexander, 158. And many was þe bald berne at banned þar quile, Þat euer he dured þat day vndede opon erthe.

c. 1475.  Rauf Coilȝear, 855. Ane of vs sall neuer hine Vndeid in this place.

1548.  Udall, etc., Erasm. Par. John vi. 41 b. Where as all men did eat therof, they neuertheles dyed, nether did any one of so great a number remain vndead.

1592.  Warner, Alb. Eng., VII. xxxiv. 149. The same … That thought he liued not because his Neeces weare vndead.

1904.  R. F. Woods, The Ringing of the Bell, in McClure’s Mag., XXIII. 317/2. It [a corpse] reminded one of the old vampire stories about the undead.

1906.  F. W. Dawson, The Scar, iv. 31. She held a lamp whose flame, yet dim in the half-light of the undead day, glowed softly on her bright face and golden hair.