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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not feed; not retained by a fee; unpaid.

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Examples

  • He comes there unfeed, without hope of guerdon, to give such assistance to the State in repressing crime and assisting justice as his knowledge in this particular case may enable him to afford; and justice, in order to ascertain whether his testimony be true, finds it necessary to subject him to torture.

    The Three Clerks 2004

  • He is one thrusts himself violently into all employments, unsent for, unfeed, and many times unthanked; and his part in it is only an eager bustling, that rather keeps ado than does any thing.

    Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle

  • Armstrong, Jack's wife, thereafter mended and patched his clothes for him, and, years later, he had the satisfaction, as their unfeed advocate, of securing the acquittal of their son from a charge of murder, of which there is some reason to hope he may not have been guilty.

    Abraham Lincoln Godfrey Rathbone Benson Charnwood 1904

  • Yet for a poor old negro his art could do nothing unfeed.

    Autobiography of a female slave, 1857

  • He comes there unfeed, without hope of guerdon, to give such assistance to the State in repressing crime and assisting justice as his knowledge in this particular case may enable him to afford; and justice, in order to ascertain whether his testimony be true, finds it necessary to subject him to torture.

    The Three Clerks Anthony Trollope 1848

  • To the inferior clergy, when he resided at Lichfield, he gave his advice unfeed, and he attended diligently to the health of those who were unable to requite him.

    Lives of the English Poets Cary, Henry F 1846

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