Undisturbed

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8, 5 b.] Not disturbed or interfered with.

  1.  In predicative use.

  It is doubtful whether vndistrobbed in Alexander, 3418 (see UNDISTURBLED ppl. a.), belongs here, or is an error for vndistrobled = UNDISTROUBLED ppl. a.

a. 1610.  Healey, Epictetus (1636), 70. So shall thy thoughts remaine undisturbed.

1622.  in Foster, Eng. Factories Ind. (1908), II. 73. Wee shall not be undisturbed till the one or other of us have given some kind of sattisfaxione.

1712.  Addison, Spect., No. 381, ¶ 4. His Imagination is always clear, and his Judgment undisturbed.

1794.  S. Williams, Vermont, 90. When undisturbed, this animal is without any ill scent.

1807.  [see UNDISTRESSED].

1876.  Bancroft, Hist. U.S., I. Introd. 2. Even the enemies of the state … have liberty to express their opinions undisturbed.

  b.  Const. by, † with.

1635–56.  Cowley, Davideis, I. 80. Where their vast Court the Mother-waters keep, And undisturb’d by Moons in silence sleep.

1674.  Jackson’s Recant., D 4. On that day the Roads are most quiet, being undisturbed with great quantities of People.

1796.  Mme. D’Arblay, Camilla, IV. 258. Undisturbed by the various noises around him.

1827.  Lytton, Falkland, I. 36. I am undisturbed by a single intruder.

1875.  Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), I. 373. Like the sleep of him who is undisturbed even by the sight of dreams.

  2.  In attrib. use: a. Of things, places, or persons.

1627.  May, Lucan, V. H 4 b. Shee vtters from an vndisturbed brest Fain’d words with no confused murmure flowing.

1692.  Bentley, Boyle Lect., 108. All the parts of an undisturb’d fluid.

1728.  Eliza Heywood, trans. Mme. de Gomez’s Belle A. (1732), II. 272. To retire from Court; and in some safe and undisturb’d Retreat … pass the remainder of my days.

1819.  Keats, Fame, 12. The undisturbed lake has crystal space.

1898.  J. T. Fowler, Durh. Cath., 33. The undisturbed grave-covers of the bishops buried beneath.

  b.  Of conditions, courses of action, etc.

1647.  Clarendon, Hist. Reb., I. § 162. A full, entire, and undisturbed Peace.

1728.  Eliza Heywood, trans. Mme. de Gomez’s Belle A. (1732), II. 105. This Night was pass’d … in all the Charms of an undisturbed Tranquillity.

1765.  Blackstone, Comm., I. 197. By a long and undisturbed descent from his ancestors.

1862.  Ansted, Channel Isl., IV. xxiii. (ed. 2), 538. Undisturbed possession during thirty years is a good title.

1834.  Manch. Exam., 17 May, 4/7. The volumes … are left to undisturbed repose on the shelves of our public libraries.

  Hence Undisturbedness.

1649.  Rainbow, Funeral Serm., 29 May, 25. They have health, leisure and undisturbedness of understanding.

1718.  Entertainer, No. 34. 229. None has given us a truer idea of … Moderation, Calmness and Undisturbedness.