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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.
c. 1425. Wyntoun, Cron., V. xi. 3016. We ask ȝour help at oure cete And we may als vnperist be.
1531. Elyot, Gov., III. vi. He presumed, that faythe beinge obserued unperisshed, shulde please all mighty god aboue all thinges.
1555. Eden, Decades (Arb.), 331. Any beastes whose skynnes they desyre to saue vnperysshed.
1624. Capt. Smith, Virginia, V. 198. The hull though two or three fathomes in the water, they found vnperished.
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.
1720. Pope, Iliad, XXIII. 402. Yon aged trunk , Or hardy fir, unperishd with the rains.
1857. Ruskin, Pol. Econ. Art, 146. You can help some genius yet unperished.