ppl. a. (UN-1 8 b.)
OE. unofercumen occurs as a gloss on L. indigestus.
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, xxii. (Laurence), 374. Thane decius … Þame commawndit … to dyng hym fast; bot vnourcumyne he can ay last.
1382. Wyclif, Judith, Prol. The vnouercomen or alle men she ouercam, and the vnouerpassable she ouerpassede.
1434. Misyn, Mending Life, 123. Truly þen is luf vnouercomyn qwhen with no nodyr desyr it may be ouercomyn.
c. 1520. Barclay, Jugurth (1557), 33 b. Ye vnouercome of your ennemies, maisters, and emperours, ouer the most part of the worlde.
1579–80. North, Plutarch (1676), 507. Though now they lead me bound, yet do I remain free unovercome.
c. 1611. Chapman, Iliad, XVI. 92. O would to Jove … That not … any one of all the Greeks … might live unovercome.
