ppl. a. (UN-1 8.)
1587. Golding, De Mornay, xxiii. 401. The Image of Serapis hung vnfastened in the ayre.
1611. Speed, Theat. Gt. Brit. (1614), 132/2. An Iland that removeth from place to place, as the winde forceth her spongeous and unfastened body.
1794. Mrs. Radcliffe, Myst. Udolpho, xlii. She asked the housekeeper whether she was certain no door had been left unfastened.
1861. Geo. Eliot, Silas M., iv. Where could he be … on such an evening, leaving … his door unfastened?
1897. Mrs. E. L. Voynich, Gadfly (1904), 69/2. The unfastened sleeve fell back, showing a series of … scars covering the arm.
