unparched

unparched

English

Etymology

un- +‎ parched. In the obsolete sense, un- functions as an intensifier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʌnˈpɑː(ɹ)t͡ʃt/

Adjective

unparched (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Dried up; withered by heat.
   • a. 1649, Richard Crashaw, Psalm CXXXVII

     My tongue […] unparch'd.

2. Not parched.

   unparched cornmeal

   • 1868, Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, Greater Britain (volume 2, page 93)

     To one fresh from the baked Australian plains, there is likeness between any green and humid land and the last unparched country that he may have seen.

References

• unparched in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913