Definition of "unburied"
unburied
adjective
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Quotations
Titus, unkind and careless of thine own,Why suffer’st thou thy sons, unburied yet,To hover on the dreadful shore of Styx?
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, [Act I, scene i]
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.
1696, Arthur Gorges (translator), “The SYRENS, or Pleasures” in The Wisdom of the Ancients (De Sapientia Veterum, 1609) by Francis Bacon, p. 95
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.
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; […], page 298