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c. 1400.  Destr. Troy, 2460. He cast be course what shuld come after, Shuld neuer purpos vnperisshit be put to a yssu.

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c. 1425.  Wyntoun, Cron., V. xi. 3016. We ask … ȝour help at oure cete And we may als vnperist be.

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1531.  Elyot, Gov., III. vi. He presumed, that faythe beinge obserued unperisshed, shulde please all mighty god aboue all thinges.

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1555.  Eden, Decades (Arb.), 331. Any beastes whose skynnes they desyre to saue vnperysshed.

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1624.  Capt. Smith, Virginia, V. 198. The hull though two or three fathomes in the water, they found vnperished.

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1652.  T. Froysell, Gale Opportunity, 39. The sweet smelling spices of his lovely life … will imbalme him, and keep him unperisht in your thoughts many years.

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1720.  Pope, Iliad, XXIII. 402. Yon aged trunk…, Or hardy fir, unperish’d with the rains.

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1857.  Ruskin, Pol. Econ. Art, 146. You can help some genius yet unperished.

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