a. Now rare. [UN-1 7.] The spelling with -same in quots. 1597–9 is due to the Dutch origin of the translations (after Du. -saem).
1. Unwholesome.
1544. Betham, Precepts War, II. xxxviii. K vij. To make the water noysome and vnhealthsome to thyne enemies.
1599. A. M., trans. Gabelhouer’s Bk. Physicke, 378/1. Experience also hath taught the same to defende any man from vnhealthsame ayre.
1621. Henryson’s Fables (1832), 50. Unhealthsome meat is of ane sairie Mouse.
a. 1860. J. Younger, Autobiog. (1881), 130. No corn in these years was substantial; all meal black ‘mattened’ and unhealthsome.
2. Unhealthy.
1597. A. M., trans. Guillemeau’s Fr. Chirurg., 23/1. In aged persons, and in those which are vnhealthsame of bodye. Ibid., 52/1. Those which have binn badlye nourished, we call vnhealthsame poeple.
Hence Unhealthsomeness, ? Obs.
1613. Purchas, Pilgrimage (1614), 688. The aire is vnholesome. But what vnhealthsomenesse can there be found, where God is found?
