[UN-2 3.] trans. To make unholy. Hence Unholied ppl. a.
a. 1555. Philpot, in Coverdale, Lett. Mart. (1564), 238. You haue bene sanctifyed and made pure through the truth, take hede you be not vnholied and defyled.
1603. Drayton, Bar. Wars, I. vi. Thou shouldst to them haue layd the Holy Word, And not thy hand to the unholyed Sword.
1649. Heylin, Relat. & Observ., II. To Rdr. O wretched unholied men! What are they that thus commit Burglary in the Sanctum Sanctorum of Gods Providence?
