Ungarbled

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8.]

  1.  Not garbled, cleansed, or sifted; not selected or sorted out.

1439.  Rolls of Parlt., V. 32/1. Uppon peyne of forfaiture of the said Spiceries so yfound ungarbeled and unclensyd.

1483.  Act 1 Rich. III., c. xi. § 1. They will not suffre any garbelyng of theym to be made but sell good and bad at so excessyf price togedyr ungarbeled.

1614.  St. Papers, Col., E. Indies (1862), 294. 20 bags of ungarbled pepper.

1649.  Jrnl. Ho. Commons, VI. 304/1. An Act for Liberty to transport Spices ungarbled, was this Day read the Third time.

1859.  R. F. Burton, Centr. Afr., in Jrnl. Geog. Soc., XXIX. 37. At the end of the rains … [the copal] is usually carried ungarbled to Zanzibar.

c. 1870.  Townend & Co.’s Circular Col. & For. Produce, s.v. Coffee, Mocha Coffee, ungarbled.

  2.  Of a fact or statement: Not mutilated or misrepresented.

1721.  Amherst, Terræ Fil., No. 41 (1726), 213. Some future unprostituted, ungarbled history of a rebellion.

1810.  Bentham, Packing (1821), 116. A jury of the original, the constitutional, the ungarbled, the uncorrupted stamp.

1834.  H. N. Coleridge, Grk. Poets (ed. 2), 141. It is not without parallel in the ungarbled writings of greater wits than Zoilus.