ppl. a. (UN-1 8, 5 b.)
1855. Guardian, 16 May, 5/1. It now remains to be proved, whether Mr. Layard can turn the ‘administrative reform’ movement to better account in the other house. If not, it must remain an undirected, unutilized national force; and an American might say of it, as of the Niagara falls, that “it is a dreadful waste of power.’
1868. W. R. Greg, Lit. & Soc. Judgm., 466. It is too probable that the negro race … is doomed … to pass away neglected and unutilized.
