ppl. a. [UN-1 8 b.]
1. Not torn or lacerated.
c. 1547. Gardiner, in Foxe, A. & M. (1563), 751. We shoulde not … mangle them or cut them, but suffer them to stand vntorne.
1599. T. M[oufet], Silkwormes, 18. They … Leaue yet no leaues vntorne that may be seene.
1621. G. Sandys, Ovid’s Met., I. (1626), 3. The yet-free Earth … (Vntorne with ploughs).
1649. F. Roberts, Clavis Bibl., 513. Preserving them un-torn in the Lyons Den.
1791. Cowper, Iliad, XXIV. 26. Apollo, with compassion touch’d Ev’n of the lifeless Hector,… preserved him, although dragg’d, untorn.
1855. Browning, Saul, v. Our sheep … are white and untorn by the bushes.
1890. Retrospect Med., CII. 249. The … tissue is usually torn through in front,… but remains untorn behind.
2. Not taken away by force.
c. 1691. South, Serm. (1717), V. 443. As long as that small remainder of Land, belonging to the Church, shall continue yet untorn from her.
