ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. Of persons: a. Not entreated or besought; unasked; uninvited. Also with to.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Troylus, IV. 513. Syn þat thow slest so fele … Ayeins hir wil vnpreyed day and nyghte, Do me … this seruyse.
c. 1400. Love, Bonavent. Mirr. (1908), 116. In that oure lord mekely vnpreide wente bodily to hele the sike seruaunt.
c. 1440. Gesta Rom., lxv. 290 (Add. MS.). The lyon, the Ape, and the Serpent, yelded hym mede, because he drew hem out of the pitte vnpraied.
1536. in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm., App. V. 407. Whatsoever man … goeth in to anny such housse … unpraied or bidden.
1600. Fairfax, Tasso, XVI. xlv. To my sutors old what I denaid, That gaue I thee … vnpraid.
1681. H. More, in Glanvill’s Sadducismus, I. Postscr. 51. The holy Angels … which … reinforce the prayers of good and holy men … unprayed to themselves.
1849. M. Arnold, Fragm. of ‘Antigone,’ 5. Who, weighing that life well Fortune presents unpray’d, Declines her ministry.
† b. Not moved by prayer. Obs.–1
1567. Drant, Horace, Ep., A iiij. If thou wouldest set Achilles oute,… Let him be swift, chafing, vnprayed, inflamde to vengaunce sone.
2. Not prayed for; without being prayed for.
1533. More, Apol., xxviii. Wks. 894/1. Yf they leue nothing vnpraied for that mai perteine to the pacificacion of this diuision.
1703. De Foe, More Reform., 50. What Capital offence Could bar thee from the Priests Benevolence, That they … should … let thee live unbless’d, unprayed for Die.
