Unleavened

ppl. a. (UN-¹ 8.)

1530.  Tindale, Exod. xii. 17. See that ye kepe you to vnleuended [sic] breed.

1594.  Hooker, Eccl. Politie, IV. § 10. The vse of vnleauened bread in that sacrament.

1611.  Bible, Exod. xii. 39. They baked vnleauened cakes of the dough. Ibid., Lev. ii. 4. Vnleauened wafers.

1702.  L’Estrange, Josephus, III. vi. 64. Twelve Loaves of Unleavened Bread.

1737.  Challoner, Cath. Chr. Instr. (1753), 59. Unleavened Bread is an Emblem or Symbol of Sincerity and Truth.

1822–7.  Good, Study Med. (1829), I. 212. Toasted bread, and unleavened biscuits.

1867.  Lady Herbert, Cradle L., vii. 191. Soft unleavened cakes and some excellent coffee,… completed our repast.

  absol.  c. 1550.  Cheke, Matt. xxvi. 17. Y^e first dai of y^e vnlevened cam y^e discipils to Jesus.

  fig.  1611.  Bible, 1 Cor. v. 7. Purge out therefore the olde leauen, that ye may be a new lumpe, as ye are vnleauened.

1814.  Byron, Lara, II. iv. Now rose the unleaven’d hatred of his heart.

1829.  Lytton, Disowned, xiv. He is … giving the very goods … to that … starving stripling! No, Warner, no! even this mass is not unleavened.