Meanings
- Not slaughtered.
- not comparableThat has not yet been slaughtered.
We might have spared ourselves the trouble, and our forty oxen remained unslaughtered.
1910, L Muehlbach, The Merchant of Berlin1 more example
After that furious battle, producing rivers of blood, had commenced, and when a remnant only of the brave samsaptakas, O Bharata, were left unslaughtered, Dhrishtadyumna, O monarch, with all the kings (on the Pandava side) and those mighty car-warriors--the Pandavas themselves, all rushed against Karna only.
1883-1896, The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 - not comparableDerived from an animal that died some way other than being slaughtered.
Origin
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