Middle English Dictionary Entry
untilled ppl.
Entry Info
| Forms | untilled ppl. Also until(e)d, untilied(e, unteled, ontilled, (SW) untuled & (error) uncilled. |
| Etymology | From tilled , etc., p.ppl. of tillen v. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Not tilled, uncultivated; (b) fig. neglected as regards spiritual development.
Associated quotations
a
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)7667 : Muche lond þer is As al wast & vntuled.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Ezek.36.35 : The ylk lond vntilied is maad as a ȝerd of volupte.
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)719/22 : Londe þat is tilied hat ‘ager’ and londe þat is vntilied hat ‘Rus’.
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)721/17 : Deserte is vntiliede.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)15.451 : Hethene is to mene after heth and vntiled erthe.
- c1400 Bk.Mother (Bod 416)57/14 : Deserd is an elinge place, untelid, fer fro men.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)35b/a : Iscalidus: a fol vnteled [Pep: a felde vncilled].
- (1440) Capgr.St.Norb.(Hnt HM 55)1616 : Þe place was onable to ony habitacioun, Vntild and row, ful of brusch and brere.
- (a1464) Capgr.Chron.(Cmb Gg.4.12)166/31 : Because þere were so fewe tylmen, þe erde lay vntillid.
- (1469) Paston (EETS)1.336 : Thei byd them lete there lond lye on-tilled.
- a1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)167/1 : It waxid bare and rowe like to a felde vntilled, hauyng no fairenes or fecundite of good werkis.
b
- c1400 Wycl.CGosp.John (Yk-M 14.D.2:Hudson)81/273 : Who..euere..tauȝte..bisynesse of þe same [ourward] þingis is signe certeyn of soule vntilid.