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unburied

1. simple past and past participle of unbury

unburied (not comparable)

1. Not having been buried.
   • c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     Titus, unkind and careless of thine own,
     Why suffer’st thou thy sons, unburied yet,
     To hover on the dreadful shore of Styx?

   • 1696, Arthur Gorges (translator), “The SYRENS, or Pleasures” in The Wisdom of the Ancients (De Sapientia Veterum, 1609) by Francis Bacon, p. 95,

     And so great were the mischiefs they did, that these Isles of the Syrens, even as far off as Man can ken them, appeared all over white with the Bones of unburied Carcasses.

   • 1748, [Samuel Richardson], chapter 86, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson;  […], →OCLC, page 298:

     In the first place, I desire, that my body may lie unburied three days after my decease, or till the pleasure of my father be known concerning it.

   • 1895–1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter 2, in The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, published 1898, →OCLC, book I (The Coming of the Martians), page 6:

     In the direction away from the pit I saw, beyond a red-covered wall, a patch of garden ground unburied.