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1538.  Elyot, Illibatus, vntouched, vntasted.

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1593.  Extr. Aberd. Reg. (1848), II. 89. The aill being untaistit nor yit price maid thairupoun.

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1665.  Boyle, Occas. Refl., IV. v. [He] pour’d it untasted on the Ground.

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1725.  Pope, Odyss., XXII. 100. Th’ untasted viands, and the jovial bowl.

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1802.  Mar. Edgeworth, Moral T., II. 11. With a yet untasted pinch of Snuff between her fingers.

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1823.  Scott, Quentin D., vii. The old Lord … placed the untasted wine-cup before him.

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1849.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vi. II. 71. The dishes were removed untasted from the table.

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1606.  Shaks., Tr. & Cr., II. iii. 130. All his vertues,… like faire Fruit in an vnholesome dish, Are like to rot vntasted.

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1692.  Dryden, Don Sebastian, II. i. A new Scene of yet untasted Joys.

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1742.  R. Blair, Grave, 76. Bursts of sorrow gush from either eye, Fast falling down her now untasted cheek.

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1818.  [S. Weston], La Scava, etc. 44. A garbled essay of his abilities, for the most part misunderstood and untasted.

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a. 1865.  Mrs. Gaskell, Wives & Dau. (1866), I. 67. The squire withdrew into his study to read the untasted newspapers.

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