ppl. a. [UN-1 8, 8 b, c.]
1. Not punished (as) by whipping; not flogged or beaten.
1605. Shaks., Lear, III. ii. 53. Tremble thou Wretch, Thou hast within thee vndivulged Crimes Vnwhipt of Iustice.
1732. Lady M. W. Montagu & Ld. Hervey, Verses to Pope, 69. If … Unwhipt, unblanketed, unkick’d, unslain, That wretched little carcase you retain.
1737. Pope, Hor. Epist., II. ii. 18. Once … I caught him in a lie, And then, unwhipp’d, he had the grace to cry.
1863. Holland, Lett. Joneses, xii. 197. The unwhipped coward rubs his hands over his clever boorishness and brutality.
1889. H. M. Stanley, in Daily News, 4 Dec., 5/2. Numerous peoples … who were as yet unwhipped out of their native arrogance.
transf. 1899. Westm. Gaz., 27 June, 10/1. Time for fishing in unwhipped waters.
2. (See WHIP v. 17.)
1867. Smyth, Sailor’s Word-book, 291. Feazings, the fagging out or unravelling of an unwhipped rope.
