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unconˈceived, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. a. Not conceived or thought of; unimagined.
1434Misyn Mending of Life 126 God truly is infinit.., of all wroght kyndes vnconsauyd. 1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. iii. 949 Renowned Load-stone, which on Iron acts,..Attracts it strangely..With unknow'n cords, with unconceived hooks. 1598Bp. Hall Sat. Postscr., Sith..that is almost unseene which is unconceived. 1648J. Beaumont Psyche xiv. lxii, Judas who neer this place did frying lie With unconceived anguish gnash'd his teeth. 1710Berkeley Princ. Hum. Knowl. §23 It is necessary that you conceive them existing unconceived or unthought of. 1742Young Nt. Th. i. 111 They live! they greatly live a life on earth Unkindl'd, unconceiv'd. 1838Poe A. G. Pym Wks. 1864 IV. 89 Events..of the most unconceived and unconceivable character. 1871Morley Vauvenargues in Crit. Misc. Ser. i. (1878) 9 The Encyclopædia was yet unconceived.
†b. Uncomprehended; not understood. Obs.—1
1619Purchas Microcosmus lxix. 689 In the meane while, sometimes without dores, on Horse-backe, they heare their vn-conceiued Liturgie.
2. Not brought into being; not properly formed or developed.
1599Marston Sco. Villanie iii. ix. G viij b, Whilst I..abuse chast virgin time, Deflowring her with unconceiued rime. 1848Bailey Festus (ed. 3) 205 All the forms Of plant, fish, brute, bird, insect, and the lives Insensible and unconceived. |