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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1495, 1606
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Unrasit, -ed, p.p. [e.m.E. unrased (1586); Ras(e v.1] a. Of a letter: Not altered by erasure. b. Of a person's head: Not shorn, with the hair uncut. —a. 1495 Acts Lords of Council I 395/1.
The lordis … clerely seand and consederand the said letter hale vnrasit vnsuspect or in ony parte of the samyn viciate —b. 1606 Craig ii 135/14.
And this my hoarie head Vnrased shall remaine; A tipe of my continuing trueth Till wee two meet againe
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