Middle English Dictionary Entry
unsāvǒured ppl.
Entry Info
| Forms | unsāvǒured ppl. Also unsavered, unsavird. |
| Etymology | From sāvǒured , sāvered, p.ppl. of sāvǒuren v. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Not strongly flavored, bland, unseasoned;
(b) in rhetorical oxymoron: ?of a taste: lacking flavor, tasteless; ?of a pleasure: unenjoyed.
Associated quotations
a
- 1468 *Medulla (StJ-C C.22)52a/b : Inconditus: vnsaueryd [Hrl 2270: vnsauered; Stnh: vnsauerynge; Hrl 1738: not saverend].
b
- (1435) Misyn FL (Corp-O 236)89/28 : Þis warld truly has likyngis of wrechydnes, ryches of vanite, wondynge flateryngis…i[t] has also salt vnsalt, sauyr vnsauyrd [L insipidum], fowle bewte, horribil frenschyp, chiryschynge nyght, bittyr hony, & kyllande fruyte.