Undipped

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8.]

  1.  Not dipped (in a liquid).

1648.  G. Daniel, Eclog, ii. 160. A Qvill soe low, soe yet vndipt, to cope with these well-mention’d worthyes.

1692.  Dryden, Cleomenes, IV. i. Like Achilles, Thou hadst a soft Egyptian heel undipt, And that has made thee mortal.

1868.  Geo. Eliot, Sp. Gipsy, 18. A fountain near,… Where timorous birds alight,… And fly away again with undipped beak.

1886.  Daily News, 23 Oct., 3/4. They will during the dipping season guard the undipped sheep.

  2.  spec. Unbaptized.

1693.  (title) Semper idem:… Dedicated to undipt John [sc. Tillotson].

1821.  Lamb, Elia, I. Valentine’s Day. The consigner of undipt infants to eternal torments.

1880.  Ruskin, Fathers have told us, I. i. 28. That undipped people may be as good as dipped if their hearts are clean.