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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1494, 1640-1666
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(Unopinit,) Unoppinnit, -opined, -opened, Wnopnyt, p.p. [e.m.E. vnopened (1600); Opin v.] a. Of a letter: Not opened. b. Of hands: Clasped, not spread out. —a. 1494 Loutfut MS 112a.
The appellacioun … to be schawin … haill & wnopynt [Lindsay MS vnoppinit] and thairto [sic] be opnyt & red in public 1640 Analecta Scotica I 383.
The general & committie sent two letteris, desyring a frie passadge, which … wer refoosit to be ressavit & so sent bak againe unopined —b. 1666 Alford Rec. 88.
Threatening speeches … bidding him severall times hang himself and that hee knew not what held his hands unopened him
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