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1442. Rolls of Parlt., V. 57/2. It may be founden … that parcell therof [sc. a will] … remayneth unperfourmede and not executed. Ibid. (1483), VI. 261/1. So that the said last Wille … shall reste unperfourmed.

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1573. Daus, trans. Bullinger on Apoc., 101 b. He shall most fully accomplish such thynges as we see as yet vnperformed.

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1591. Harington, Orl. Fur., XXVI. xxxv. 208/2. Merlin,… by his passing wit, Set here (as yet) their vnperformed deeds.

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c. 1611. Chapman, Iliad, I. 59. If unperformed vows He blames in us.

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1691. Baxter, Inf. Bapt., 308. That condition which is of necessity to the end, though some accidentals be unperformed.

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1750. Chesterf., Lett., 8 Jan. They have done feats … unperformed by others.

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1849. FitzGerald, Lett. (1889), I. 197. A large bill for service unperformed.

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1870. Bryant, Iliad, I. II. 41. Yet is the enterprise for which we came still unperformed.

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