a. [UN-1 7.]
1. = UNHEALTHY a. 1.
1580. Sidney, Ps. XXII. i. My God,… from me why is thy presence taken? Soe farre from seeing mine unhealthfull eyes.
1600. Surflet, Countrie Farme, I. xv. 95. They be small, alwaies leane, vnhealthfull, and their flesh of small relish.
1683. Tryon, Way to Health, 202. These latter sort of People … are certainly the most unhealthful men in the World.
1737[?]. Bolingbroke, Study Hist., vii. Charles the second: an unhealthful youth.
1768–74. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), II. 81. Many come into the world maimed, weakly, and unhealthful.
absol. 1660. R. Coke, Power & Subj., 164. That you may never in the same manner judge rich and poor,… the healthful and unhealthful.
b. Of life, growth, etc.
1595. in Ellis, Orig. Lett., Ser. III. IV. 124. In my declyninge and unhealthfull yeres.
1612. T. Taylor, Comm. Titus i. 13. Of an vnhealthfull … and painfull life men are so weary, as they would seeke for death.
1786. Abercrombie, Gard. Assist., 247. Any plants of an infirm, unhealthful, stunted … growth.
1831. Willis, Poem Brown University, 83. Unhealthful fires burn constant in his eye.
1895. Atlantic Monthly, March, 340. The bark peels away in strips, leaving them in white unhealthful nakedness.
2. = UNHEALTHY a. 2.
1598. Florio, Insalubre, vnholsome, vnhealthfull.
1653. W. Ramesey, Astrol. Restored, 303. The Winter following will be very unhealthful and obnoxious to all creatures.
1683. Dryden, Life Plutarch, in Pls Lives, I. 5. Being also expos’d to the winds which blew from that quarter, the town was perpetually unhealthful.
1756. C. Lucas, Ess. Waters, I. 36. All countries where stagnant waters abound must be unhealthful.
1784. Cowper, Task, IV. 363. The unhealthful East, That breathes the spleen, and searches ev’ry bone Of the infirm.
1841. Myers, Cath. Th., III. § 50. 193. Such Rest … is sweeter far than any which unhealthful indolence … can supply.
1865. Mrs. Whitney, Gayworthys, xxiii. There was truly something in the air that had made the place unhealthful to her.
