Unperfected

ppl. a. (UN-¹ 8, 5 b.)

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a. 1513. Fabyan, Chron., VII. 49. By reason of which … trewes the hostes were deseuered, and the ende of y^e warre vnparfyted.

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c. 1542. Surrey in Tottel’s Misc. (Arb.), 29. A mark, the which (vnparfited, for time) Some may approche, but neuer none shall hit.

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1625. K. Long, trans. Barclay’s Argenis, V. x. 363. The businesse yet stands well; the alliance unperfected; Argenis unmarried.

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1657. W. Rand, trans. Gassendi’s Life Peiresc, II. 192. He never willingly left anything unperfected.

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1716–20. Lett. fr. Mist’s Jrnl. (1722), I. 303. These … are but half Gentlemen,… debased, unperfected things.

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1864. Reader, No. 86. 219/2. An unperfected sketch.

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1891. Farrar, Darkn. & Dawn, xli. Shall any germ of good in man’s soul perish unperfected?

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