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  1.  Not refined in manners, feelings, or speech.

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1595.  W. Clerke, Polimanteia, etc., R iij. With Chausers praise, with Lydgate,… and such like, whose vnrefined tongues … wrote simplie and purelie as the times weare.

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1704.  Swift, T. Tub., ix. The Vulgar dictates of unrefined Reason.

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1756.  Burke, Vind. Nat. Soc., Wks. I. 61. In these early and unrefined ages.

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1807.  G. Chalmers, Caledonia, I. II. vi. 309. In this unrefined state, the Scoto-Irish long continued.

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1861.  Whyte-Melville, Market Harb., 60. A confirmed bachelor,… somewhat rough and unpolished and unrefined.

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  2.  Not freed from gross or inferior matter.

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c. 1610.  Rates of Marchandizes, F 1 b. Camphire refined the pound. Camphire vnrefined.

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1611.  Cotgr., Borras Pierreux, vnrefined Borax, as it comes out of the rocke, or mine.

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1659.  W. Chamberlayne, Pharon., I. v. 65. Like gold yet unrefined.

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1703.  Dampier, Voy., III. 55. Which makes it whiter and finer than our Muscovada, as we call our unrefin’d Sugar.

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1791.  Newte, Tour Eng. & Scot., 108. Rocksalt in the raw and unrefined state.

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1868.  G. Duff, Pol. Surv., 190. Brazil sends us … raw cotton and unrefined sugar.

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1900.  Jrnl. Soc. Dyers, xvi. 10. Unrefined natural indigo.

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  Hence Unrefinedness.

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1607.  Walkington, Opt. Glass, 18. The vnrefinednesse of the spirits doe seeme to affect the soule.

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