ppl. a. [OE. unsoden (UN-1 8 b), = MDu. ongesoden (Du. -zoden), OHG. unca-, unkisotan (MHG. ungesoten, G. ungesotten), MSw. osudhin, MDa. usaaden, Da. usoden in sense 1.]
1. Unboiled, uncooked.
c. 1000. Sax. Leechd., II. 38. Sceapes hohscancan unsodenne tobrec, ʓedo þæt mearh on þa eaʓan.
1511. Fabyan, Will, in Chron. (1815), p. v. If my said monethes mynde fall in Lent, or upon a fysshe day, than I will that the said .xxiiij. peces of fleshe be altered unto saltfyche or stokfyshe, unwatered and unsodeyn.
1571. Golding, Calvin on Ps. lviii. 10. Like unsodden flesh, and such as hathe scarce yit felt the first warmth of the fyre.
1608. Willet, Hexapla Exod., 247. The manna … was raw and vnsodden.
2. Not sodden or soaked. Also fig.
1818. Shelley, Eugan. Hills, 295. The plains that silent lie Underneath; the leaves unsodden.
1859. Meredith, R. Feverel, xxii. A non-dancing, stout-dining congregation, in the midst of which a gay young guardsman … would not have obtruded his unsodden spirit.
