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unlawed

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • See the quotation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not having the claws and balls of the forefeet cut off; -- said of dogs.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of unlaw.

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Examples

  • Three were outlawed, and their sureties “unlawed.”

    John Knox and the Reformation Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 1905

  • The Charter of the Forest designed to lessen those evils, declares that inquisition, or view, for lawing dogs, shall be made every third year, and shall be then done by the view and testimony of lawful men, not otherwise; and they whose dogs shall be then found unlawed, shall give three shillings for mercy, and for the future no man's ox shall be taken for lawing.

    Ivanhoe 1892

  • Three were outlawed, and their sureties "unlawed."

    John Knox and the Reformation Andrew Lang 1878

  • The Charter of the Forest designed to lessen those evils, declares that inquisition, or view, for lawing dogs, shall be made every third year, and shall be then done by the view and testimony of lawful men, not otherwise; and they whose dogs shall be then found unlawed, shall give three shillings for mercy, and for the future no man's ox shall be taken for lawing.

    Ivanhoe. A Romance 1819

  • The Charter of the Forest designed to lessen those evils, declares that inquisition, or view, for lawing dogs, shall be made every third year, and shall be then done by the view and testimony of lawful men, not otherwise; and they whose dogs shall be then found unlawed, shall give three shillings for mercy, and for the future no man's ox shall be taken for lawing.

    Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1801

  • The Charter of the Forest designed to lessen those evils, declares that inquisition, or view, for lawing dogs, shall be made every third year, and shall be then done by the view and testimony of lawful men, not otherwise; and they whose dogs shall be then found unlawed, shall give three shillings for mercy, and for the future no man’s ox shall be taken for lawing.

    Ivanhoe 2004

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