Middle English Dictionary Entry
unwrought ppl.
Entry Info
| Forms | unwrought ppl. Also unwrouȝt, unwroght, unwroȝt, onwrought, (N) unwroth, unwroiȝt. |
| Etymology | From wrought , etc., p.ppl. of werken v.(1). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Uncreated, not made;
(b) in an unrefined state, unworked, crude; of silk: not spun or woven;
(c) not done, not performed; not carried out.
Associated quotations
a
- a1500(1413) *Pilgr.Soul (Eg 615)5.26.102b : It is so þat God him selfe is nature vnformed of [read: or] vnwrought.
b
- (1423) RParl.4.258a : Gold or Silver wrought or unwrought, coigned or uncoigned.
- (1429) RParl.4.360b : Grete quantite of fyn Wolle yerne…is led into straunge parties…so yat…oure…soverayn Lorde is yerly gretely defrauded of his custumes and subsidies, yat yerof suld to hym growe, if it were fully wroght withynne ye saide Roiaume, or elles if hit wer unwroght…and in Wolle led to his Staple at Caleys.
- (1440) in Black Leathersellers24 : If the seid Wardeins…fynde eny maner lethir that is unsuffisantly or untrewly tawed, wroght or unwroght…the same Wardeins mowe have power for to take it.
- (1455) RParl.5.325a : Before this tyme…many Gentilwymmen…have be drawen…in lernyng the same Craftes…and never any thing of Silke…in eny wise wrought, but in rawe Silk allone unwrought…divers Lombardes and other Aliens…ymagenyng to destroye the same Craftes…bring nowe daily into yis lande wrought Silk throwen, Rybens, and Laces…Corses of Silke…redy wrought, and no Silke woll bring unwrought unto yis Lande to make eny such thing of.
- a1500(a1451) Commodities Eng.(LdMisc 593)553 : They brynge all maner of Spycys…Resyns of Coranne…bale Woode…Golde onwrought, Sylver onwrought…and also many other dyvers dregs and spyce…with many other dyverse merchandyses.
- a1500(c1477) Norton OAlch.(Add 10302)1679 : With astrologie ioyn Elementis also, To fortune theire worchingis…Such symple kindis, vnformyd & vnwroȝt, Most craftly be gidid til þe ende be sowght.
c
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.6659 : Al had ben vnwrouȝt Ȝif we had seyn þis in oure þouȝt Wisely aforn.
- a1425(a1400) PConsc.(Glb E.9 & Hrl 4196)5976 : Þus sal men þan yhelde resons sere…noght anely of werkes wroght, bot unwroght, Als of werkes of mercy þat done war noght.
- (1435) Misyn FL (Corp-O 236)3/35 : Þus no meruayl to þam sall appere with-inforthe þe fyer of vnwroth charite.
- c1450(a1425) MOTest.(SeldSup 52)12718 : His wyll was vn wroyȝt.
- a1475 *Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)7847 : Oþer synnes mo þan thise Many time shulde haue ben vnwroght.