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unbeˈlieved, ppl. a.
Forms: 3 unbilefde, -bileued; 4 vnbylefed, 5 vnbeleued, etc.; 7– unbelieved.
[un-1 8.]
†1. Unbelieving. Obs.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 81 Þe grimliche wordes þe ure helende..gaf to andswere þe unbilefde iudeuisshe men. a1225Ancr. R. 260 Unbileued he is þet luueð to muchel & ȝisceð worldes weole & wunne. a1400New Test. (Paues) Titus i. 16 Þei beþ abhomynabel, & vnbylefed, & reprefabel to eferich good werk. c1450Mirk's Festial i. 139 Phylyp was send..forto prech Godis worde to þe vnbeleued pepull.
†2. Unbelievable, incredible. Obs.
c1425in Anglia X. 342 Turmentede with vnbylevede sorowe. 1581Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 19 Nay, to so vnbeleeued a poynt hee proceeded, as that no earthly thing bred such wonder to a Prince, as to be a good horseman. 1611Beaum. & Fl. King & No King ii. ii, I made his valour stoop, and brought that name soar'd to so unbeliev'd a height, to fall beneath mine.
3. Not believed; disbelieved.
1603Shakes. Meas. for M. v. i. 119 Heauen shield your Grace from woe As I thus wrong'd, hence vnbeleeued goe. a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. Pref. (1622) B ij b, But yet specially, in the first point, of beleeuing that there is a God, that is of all the rest the most vnbeleeued. 1655J. Jane in Nicholas Papers (Camden) II. 223 It cannot be long vnbeleeved, being soe farr advanced especially in the French leauge. 1819Wordsw. Haunted Tree 27 Nor is it unbelieved, By ruder fancy, that a troubled ghost Haunts the old trunk. 1844Kinglake Eothen viii, The unbelieved Cassandra was right after all. 1877Ruskin Fors Clav. lxxxi. 250 All which teachings have..passed from deed and truth into mere monotony of unbelieved phrase. |