a. (UN-1 7.)
1602. Shaks., Ham., II. ii. 594. Yet I … peake Like Iohn a-dreames, vnpregnant of my cause, And can say nothing. Ibid. (1603), Meas. for M., IV. iv. 23. This deede vnshapes me quite, makes me vnpregnant And dull to all proceedings.
1868. Lond. Rev., 8 Aug., 166/2. His work has never been unpregnant in illustration of his mind.
1878. N. Amer. Rev., CXXVI. 48. No such interest can arise when the misfortune is unpregnant.
