ppl. a. [UN-1 8. Cf. Du. ongegaderd, -gegaard.]
1. Not gathered or brought together; uncollected.
1461. Rolls of Parlt., V. 495/1. Youre dettes remaynyng ungadered.
1481. Coventry Leet Bk., 478. Þer rested behynde vngadered … of þe seide hole some xiij li. ix s. vj d.
1525. Ld. Berners, Froiss., II. cxvi. 332. A great parte of that money as than nat payde and vngadered.
1590. H. Barrow, in Confer., i. 9. They being as yet vngathered to Christ.
1625. Chas. I., Sp., in Rushw., Hist. Coll. (1659), I. 177. Your love to me … you expressed by a Grant of Two Subsidies yet ungathered.
1851. Buried City of East, Nineveh, vi. 93. A workman returning hungry from his work, and finding his bread unbaked, or the water-skin still lying empty, or the bundle of faggots for the evening fire yet ungathered, would, in a moment of passion, pronounce three times the awful sentence, and divorce his wife.
1873. Proctor, Expanse Heav., 191. Enormous quantities of as yet ungathered materials.
b. spec. (See quot.)
1888. Jacobi, Printers’ Vocab., Ungathered, books delivered to binders in sheets, i.e. not gathered into books.
2. Of flowers, etc.: Not gathered or culled; unpicked, unharvested.
1593. Daniel, Compl. Rosamond, I 3 b. Th’ vngathred Rose, defended with the thornes.
1600. Surflet, Countrie Farme, II. lxv. 412. If at this time there be found euer a combe vngathered and not pluckt away,… you must not therefore kill the Bees.
1697. Dryden, Virg. Past., I. 51. We wonder’d … For whom so late th’ ungather’d Apples hung.
1825. Scott, Talism., xix. Is it not hard that … I should be doomed to see fade before me ungathered such a rich harvest of glory to God?
1850. Tennyson, In Mem., civ. This holly by the cottage-eave, To night, ungather’d, shall it stand.
1896. Daily News, 4 Sept., 7/5. The barleys which are still ungathered will, it is feared, be spoilt for malting purposes.
3. Not drawn together.
1615. G. Sandys, Trav., 63. Ouer all when they goe abroad they weare gownes … vngathered in the shoulders.
1690. C. Nesse, O. & N. Test., I. 104. As a web of cloth is rolled up, only a little left at the end ungathered.
