1. Not emptied or drained of contents.
1648. Boyle, Seraph. Love (1659), 87. His Plenty being so unexhausted a spring of goods.
1652. E. Benlowes, Theoph., VII. xc. Flouds of unebbing joyes … Thou dost exhibit in an unexhausted bowl!
1704. Phil. Trans., XXV. 1786. As the Vibrations in the unexhausted Receiver were a little contracted.
1721. Ramsay, Prospect of Plenty, 245. Neptune’s unexhausted bank has store Of endless wealth.
1833–4. J. Phillips, Geol., in Encycl. Metrop. (1845), VI. 756/2. An unexhausted fountain of melted matter.
2. Not used up, expended, or brought to an end.
1602. Lodge, Josephus, Antiq., VI. xiv. 149. Whatsoeuer they be that spend their many and vnexhausted labours in their seruice.
1656. Cowley, Pindar. Odes, 2nd Olympique, vii. In the Lands of unexhausted Light.
a. 1704. T. Brown, Mr. H. Silly, Wks. 1711, IV. 249. Thy Tenants,… With deep and unexhausted Woe, Lament their Generous Master dead.
1827. Jarman, Powell’s Devises, II. 77. Such unexhausted interest … belongs to the heir as real estate undisposed of.
1857. Dufferin, Lett. High Lat. (ed. 3), 112. Having separated into two streams, the unexhausted torrent again recommenced its march.
1878. Jevons, Prim. Pol. Ecol., 93. Tenant right consists in giving the tenant a right to claim the value of any unexhausted improvements.
