undecayed

When blown sands invade a forest and the deposit is rapidly accumulated, the trees are often buried in an undecayed condition.

The towns were every where flourishing; but it was in Africa, Sicily, and Spain alone that agriculture was undecayed.

The glacial subsoils are made of rocks of many kinds, still undecayed and largely ground to powder.

In the two last, we also have examples of bodies remaining undecayed for months after death.

Anciently, when long-buried bodies were found undecayed in the grave, a species of sanctity was attributed to them.