ppl. a. (UN-1 8.)
1622. Fletcher, Sea Voy., IV. i. Do ye like wealth, and most unequal’d beauty?
1639. Sir W. Berkeley, Lost Lady, I. i. I will relate the story of his Unequal’d suffrings.
1667. Milton, P. L., IX. 983. Chiefly assur’d … of thy so true, So faithful Love unequald.
1746. Francis, trans. Hor., Sat., II. ii. 38. No; ’tis th’ unequall’d beauty of its train Deludes your eye.
1794. R. J. Sulivan, View Nat., I. 177. Why should there be … such unequalled heats, and such unequalled evaporation?
1841. Miss Mitford, in L’Estrange, Life (1870), III. viii. 120. Our ancestors were rare architects. Their painted glass and their carved oak are unequalled.
1872. Yeats, Techn. Hist. Comm., 81. Buildings which are unequalled for grandeur.
b. Const. by.
1769. Goldsm., Hist. Rome (1786), II. 103. An act of unequalled heroism by anything that had hitherto appeared in Rome.
1796. Morse, Amer. Geog., II. 19. A violence and noise unequalled by the loudest cataracts.
1829. Chapters Phys. Sci., 64. The battering-ram … exerted a force which in some respects rendered it unequalled by our battering cannon.
1869. Tozer, Highl. Turkey, II. 124. A panorama … unequalled … by any view in Greece.
