Unstirred

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  α.  13[?].  E. E. Allit. P., B. 706. At a stylle stollen steuen, vnstered wyth syȝt, Luf lowe hem bytwene lasched so hote.

c. 1375.  Sc. Leg. Saints, xliv. (Lucy), 255. Vnsterit scho stud stil as a crag.

1513.  Douglas, Æneid, VII. xi. 53. Vnsterit lang tyme and vnmovit, Itale Now birnis into fury bellicale.

1535.  Stewart, Cron. Scot. (Rolls), III. 61. Neuir ane ox wes ȝokkit into bow, Bot lay full still into thair stall wnsteird.

  β.  a. 1340.  Hampole, Psalter, xxv. 12. Mi fote … departid not fro þi ryȝtwysnes bot stod vnstird ogeyne alle sclaunders.

1470–1.  Rolls of Parlt., VI. 233/1. Uncompelled, unstirred or undesired soo to doo.

1551.  Recorde, Pathw. Knowl., I. xiv. Set the one foote of the same compasse vnsturred, in the eande of the other line.

1589.  Fleming, Virg. Georg., II. 28. Vnstird it doth remaine, And conquereth … by lasting many yeares.

1624.  Gataker, Transubst., 55. The selfe same body … sitting there still unstirred and untouched.

1628.  Feltham, Resolves, 221. Like the Wind … It disperses Exhalations from the muddy Earth, which would, vnstirr’d, infect it.

1699.  Bentley, Phal., 506. It was immortal Vellum … that could last for ten Ages, though untouch’d and unstirr’d.

1830.  Mrs. Hemans, Lady of Provence, 11. Many a Chatillon…, Unstirr’d by the ringing trumpet’s breath, His shroud of armour wore.

1843.  Ruskin, Mod. Paint., I. II. V. iii. § 27. Glassy pools, upon which the drinking cattle cast an unstirred image.

1882.  ‘Ouida,’ Maremma, I. 192. The ilex leaves … drooping above their heads, unstirred by any breeze.