ppl. a. (UN-1 10.)

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1833.  J. H. Newman, Arians, i. § 1. 20. Judaism … indisposed the mind for the severe and unexciting mysteries … of the Catholic faith.

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1861.  Mill, Repr. Govt., 37. Uncivilized races … are averse to continuous labour of an unexciting kind.

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1885.  ‘Mrs. Alexander,’ At Bay, viii. He had … led a quiet, busy life, humbly useful, but unexciting.

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  b.  spec. of diet.

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1880.  Barwell, Aneurism, v. 44. If an aneurismal patient … have a dry, unexciting diet.

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1888.  P. Furnivall, Phys. Training, 3. Substantial, nourishing solids, with simple unexciting fluids.

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