ppl. a. [f. prec. or UN-1 8. Cf. G. entseelt; also MHG. ungesêlt (obs. G. ungeseelt), G. unbeseelt.] a. Deprived of soul. b. Not endowed with soul.

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1596.  Spenser, F. Q., VII. vii. 46. Death … [is not] ought to see, but like a shade to weene, Vnbodied, vnsoul’d, vnheard, vnseene.

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1620.  Shelton, Quix., I. IV. v. 336. I know not what vnsouled folke they be, and so without conscience.

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1633.  Ford, Love’s Sacr., I. ii. Thus, bodies walke vnsold.

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1722.  Hamilton, Wallace, V. (1816), 67. The chief retires,… While twenty foes unsoul’d, adorn the fatal scene.

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a. 1750.  A. Hill, Ronald & Dorna, v. Trembling, I wait, unsoul’d, till you inspire.

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1800.  Coleridge, Piccolom., I. iv. 127. The painful toil … Left me a heart unsoul’d and solitary.

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1840.  Mangan, Poems (1903), 136. To be The world’s applauded and degraded martyr, Unsouled, enthralled.

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1885–94.  R. Bridges, Eros & Psyche, March, xii. Her fair Hellenic empire … For which she had … left her wanton images unsoul’d in Babylon and Zidon.

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