Unmade

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8 b, 5 d.]

  1.  Not (yet) made, in senses of the verb.

c. 1250.  Gen. & Ex., 671. Babel, ðat tur, bi-lef un-mad.

1375.  Barbour, Bruce, IV. 608. He … thoucht to leif the fyre vnmaid.

c. 1400.  Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton, 1483), V. i. 74. God … maketh as many werkes as better ben made than vnmade.

c. 1489.  Caxton, Sonnes of Aymon, xx. 445. Thys cave sheweth not that it hathe be vnmade this hundred yeres passed.

1526.  Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 81. Whiche … lefte the lettre .O. that he was in makynge halfe vnmade.

1592.  Shaks., Rom. & Jul., III. iii. 70. Taking the measure of an vnmade graue.

1623.  Sanderson, Serm. (1632), 151. Lawes … are farre better vnmade, then vnkept.

1680.  Sir J. Foulis, Acc. Bk. (S.H.S.), 165. To [blank] davison for 4 duzⁿ unmade pens.

1704.  Lond. Gaz., No. 3981/4. With new fine Holland Shifts and Hankerchiefs unmade.

1716.  Wodrow Corr. (1843), II. 132. Whatever of cloth, made or unmade, linen yarn or woollen.

1807.  Crabbe, Par. Reg., III. 180. I die,… My mind unsettled, and my will unmade.

1828.  Lights & Shades, I. 286. A halfclothed mother seated on the corner of an unmade bed.

1885.  C. E. Pascoe, Lond. of To-day, 315. The plain unmade satin scarf.

  b.  spec. Untrained. (Cf. MADE ppl. a. 6.)

1856.  H. H. Dixon, Post & Paddock, i. 4. The largest market in the world for unmade hunters and carriage-horses.

  2.  Existing without having been made; uncreated but existent.

c. 1350.  Athanasian Creed, in MS. Bodl. 425. fol. 69 b. Bot on unmade and on mikel is he.

1434.  Misyn, Mending Life, 122. O sweit light … þat is my makar vn-made, liȝt þe face … of my Inward eyn with clernes vn-made.

c. 1449.  Pecock, Repr., II. xvi. 242. Thei … helden that al the bodili heuen … was vnmaad, and was euer withoute bigynnyng of tyme.

1563.  Man, Musculus’ Commonpl., 373. I doe fynde generally two Natures, one not made, the other made. Wee call that unmade (non factam), which belongeth unto God.

1678.  Cudworth, Intell. Syst., Pref. The Latter asserted an Unmade Mind, whereas the Former Generated all Mind … out of those Qualified Atoms.

1682.  Norris, Hierocles, Pref. 23. Unmade, Self-existent, independent Deities.

1720.  Waterland, Eight Serm., 239. If He existed before anything was made, He must … be unmade, and therefore eternal.

1827.  Pollok, Course T., VI. 630. Maker, Upholder, Governor of all! Thyself unmade, ungoverned, unupheld!

1884.  Congregat. Year Bk., 93. His world is a world without design, atoms are the unmade makers of all things.

  3.  † a. Sc. (with complement). Obs.

1456.  [see UN-¹ 5 d (b).]

1596.  Dalrymple, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot. (S.T.S.), II. 436. Quhat chancet on Pasche day … suld not be vnmaid mentioune of.

  b.  With advs. Not made out, up, etc.

1600.  Hakluyt, Voy., III. 87. A Pinnesse … which was caryed in pieces, and vnmade vp.

a. 1631.  Donne, Elegy, xv. 97. Countless multitudes Of formlesse curses, projects unmade up.

a. 1680.  Butler, Charac., Pedant (1908), 136. He wears his little Learning, unmade-up, puts it on, before it was half finished.

1707.  Mortimer, Husb., 379. Where the rows and brush lie longer unbound or unmade up.

1833.  Lamb, Lett. to Cary, in Final Mem., viii. I think we scarce let anything unmadeout.