unparched

English

Etymology

From 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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.