a. (UN-1 7.)
1538. Elyot, Innocuus, vnharmefull, he that doth none harme.
1548. Udall, etc., Erasm. Par. John i. 9 b. This is he whose vnharmefull blood defended the children of Israel.
1594. Carew, Tasso (1881), 87. That hungry teene of gold, and thirst withall Of mine vnharmefull blood.
1615. Chapman, Odyss., II. 138. And hold unharmful on your wished way.
1687. Dryden, Hind & P., I. 299. Themselves unharmful, let them live unharmd, Their jaws disabld, and their claws disarmd.
1855. Singleton, Virgil, I. 162. Often have malignant stepdames mingled drugs and not unharmful spells.