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1. From which no recovery is or has been made.
c. 1611. Chapman, Iliad, IX. 247. Consider these affairs in time,… And have the grace to turn from Greece fate’s unrecover’d hour.
1612. Drayton, Poly-olb., II. 74. Too late (alas) we find The softness of thy sword … To be the onely cause of vnrecouer’d spoile.
1630. J. Taylor (Water P.), Siege Jerus., Wks. 12. Then fell they to an vnrecouered wane.
2. Not recovered or regained.
a. 1692. Pollexfen, Disc. Trade (1697), 4. The other half Million … we may be sure they did not give us, or left unrecovered, but took it from us.
1855. M. Arnold, Balder Dead, III. 235. They bind us … To leave for ever Balder in the grave, An unrecover’d prisoner.
1897. Daily News, 21 Jan., 6. A telegram … states that the body of Fowler is unrecovered.
3. Not having recovered (from something).
1737. Parnell, Poems, 94. Lychenor following with a downward Blow, Reach’d in the Lake his unrecover’d Foe.
1860. Froude, Hist. Eng., VI. 235. With a stomach unrecovered from the sea … he sate down … to a public English supper.
1880. Emma Marshall, Troubl. Times, IV. 288. Being yet on my bed, unrecovered of that fore-mentioned illness.
