ppl. a. [UN-1 8. Cf. Du. ongezift.]

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  1.  Not passed through a sieve; unstrained.

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1589.  Cogan, Haven Health (ed. 2), iv. 25. When meale wholly vnsifted … is made into Bread.

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1628.  May, Virg. Georg., I. 5. The ground one yeare at rest; forget not than … to hearten it againe … with unsifted ashes.

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1784.  Cowper, Task, VI. 108. Swallowing … The total grist unsifted, husks and all.

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1870.  Tyndall, Fragm. Sci. (1871), 138. Pure unsifted solar light is white.

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  2.  Unexamined, unscrutinized.

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1620.  Quarles, Div. Poems, Feast for Worms, IX. ix. No crime unsifted, no sinne unpresented, Can lurke unseene.

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1826.  Southey, Lett. (1856), IV. 38. There must be abundant matter of unsifted information in our public collections.

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1858.  Gladstone, Homer, I. 219. A poet who, as to facts, was at the mercy of unsifted information.

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1882.  Pusey, Paroch. & Cathedr. Serm., i. 3. The unsifted, unexamined conscience of a sinner.

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  3.  Untried, inexperienced.

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1602.  Shaks., Ham., I. iii. 102. You speake like a greene Girle, Vnsifted in such perillous Circumstance.

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