ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. Not wasted or consumed.
1340–70. Alex. & Dind., 236. Hit scholde nouht lesen his liht … While þe weke & þe waxe vn-wasted lasteþ.
c. 1400. Found. St. Bartholomew’s, 61. What myghte falle to them … that hastid with a desire to that place of vnwastid pite.
1561. T. Norton, Calvin’s Inst., IV. xvii. 121 b. The fleshe of Christ is like a riche and vnwasted fountaine.
1625. Donne, Serm., 26. Whose meale and oyle God preserved unwasted.
1659. W. Chamberlayne, Pharon., I. i. 178. So they preserve his name—A yet unwasted pyramid of fame.
1712. Blackmore, Creation, I. 671. Why have those rocks so long unwasted stood?
1826. Milman, Anne Boleyn, 35. Unwasted by the pains of earth, Thou didst bring forth the fair immortal birth.
1846. Keble, Lyra Innoc., 73. Through the dim chinks of this decaying earth Gleams, ever and anon, th’ unwasted fire.
2. Not laid waste; undevastated.
1570. Foxe, A. & M. (ed. 2), I. 362 b/1. The kyng might haue had his land vnwasted, and his treasure vnconsumed.
1785. Burke, Sp. Nabob of Arcot’s Debts, Wks. IV. 276. Several of the petty princes of the most southerly of the unwasted provinces.
1836. Thirlwall, Greece, II. xvi. 331. Tempted by the prospect of saving their still unwasted fields and dwellings.
3. Not impaired by waste.
1758. J. Dalrymple, Ess. Feudal Property (ed. 2), 59. The lord came into the practice of giving a whole year’s rent for the king’s right of waste, and got the lands safe and unwasted to himself.
