a. [UN-1 7. OE. had both undéadlic and undéaþlic (see UN-1 3), corresponding to OHG. untôdlîh (MHG. untôtlîch, G. untödtlich), ON. údauðligr (Sw. odödlig, Da. udødelig).]
† 1. Not subject to death; immortal. Obs.
c. 950. Rit. Eccl. Dunelm. (Surtees), 169. Haliʓ God,… strong, haliʓ. & vndeadlic.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Hom., I. 150. He … wunað … undeadlic, se þe ær his ðrowunge wæs deadlic. Ibid. (c. 1000), Saints’ Lives, iv. 385. Þær bið æfre ece fyr and undeadlic wyrm.
a. 1200. St. Marher., 10. Keiser of kinges, drihtin undedlich.
a. 1225. Leg Kath., 390. Hwen þu forcweðest, for þi Crist, ure undedliche godes.
c. 1230. Hali Meid., 39. Eadi is te were … hwas streon is undeadlich.
a. 1340. Hampole, Psalter xxiii. 4. He … feland his saule vndedly, enterly gaf him til godis luf.
1382. Wyclif, 1 Tim. i. 17. To the kyng of worldis, vndeedly and invisyble God aloone, honour and glorie.
c. 1425. St. Christina, iii., in Anglia, VIII. 120/45. To suffre peynes of an vndeedly soule by a deedly body.
c. 1449. Pecock, Repr., II. xvi. 243. Tho spiritis were vnmade and vndeedli withoute bigynnyng or eending in tyme.
1554[?]. Coverdale, Hope of Faithful, xxiv. 169. Vndeadlye or immortall is it called, because it neuer ceaseth to lyue.
1612. T. James, Corrupt. Scripture, III. 8. For rightfulnes is euerlasting and vndeadlie.
2. Not causing death; not mortal.
c. 1611. Chapman, Iliad, XI. 390. Ulysses knowing well The wound undeadly … Thus spake to Socus.
