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1. Not expended; not employed or used.
1466. Mann. & Househ. Exp. (Roxb.), 326. He ad of myn onspente in is and, vj.s. viij.d.
1483. in Somerset Med. Wills (1901), 239. As moch as than shal … remayne unspent of the seid xij torches.
1550. Crowley, Last Trump, 269. If ought remayne vnspent Upon thyne owne necessity.
1632. Lithgow, Trav., VII. 313. The French men had only left unspent … threescore and nine Chickens of Gold.
1674. Hobbes, Odyssey (ed. 2), 9. We had Wine enough as yet unspent.
1745. in Picton, L’pool Munic. Rec. (1886), II. 110. A proportionable part of what remains unspent.
1895. Westm. Gaz., 24 May, 5/2. The revolver … contained one spent and five unspent cartridges.
1899. Parlt. Debates, LXVII. 554/2. What [he] … pressed was the use of the unspent balance for that purpose.
2. Unexhausted; not used up.
c. 1611. Chapman, Iliad, XIV. 344. For fervour of his unspent strength.
1663. Dryden, Ep. to Charleton, 36. Whose Fame … Flies like the nimble journeys of the Light; And is, like that, unspent too in its flight.
1732. Pope, Ess. Man, I. 274. All are but parts of one stupendous whole,… That … extends thro’ all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent.
1770. Glover, Leonidas (ed. 5), XII. 355. He impell’d His spear. The point with violence unspent … reach’d the Persian’s throat.
1799. Cowper, Castaway, 39. So long he, with unspent pow’r, His destiny repell’d.
1857. Emerson, Poems, ‘Give all to Love,’ ii. High and more high It dives into noon, With wing unspent.
