Untested

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8.]

  † 1.  Intestate. Obs. (Cf. prec.)

1570.  Foxe, A. & M. (ed. 2), I. 409/1. The courte [of Rome] … aspired how to vsurpe the goods of them that die vntested.

1586.  Spenser, Will, Wks. 1882, I. p. xvii. Suche as dye untestyd.

1608.  in T. Pont’s Acc. Cunningham (Maitl. Cl.), 183. Johne Blair … deceist vntestit in the moneth of Januar, 1604 zeiris.

  2.  Not tested or proved.

[1775.  Ash.]

1828–32.  Webster (citing Adams’ Lect.).

1881.  J. G. Fitch, Lect. Teaching, 179. With a child, to leave him unquestioned and untested is not to give better room for the spontaneous exercise of his own faculties, but simply to encourage stagnation and forgetfulness.

1884.  Church, Bacon, viii. 197. His whole doctrine of ‘Forms’ … is an example of loose and slovenly use of unexamined and untested ideas.