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unˈcounted, ppl. a. (un-1 8.)
a1500in Makculloch & Gray MSS. (S.T.S.) 55 Kingis & knichtis in company Vncountit curiously vp I kest. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, Induct. 18 The blunt Monster, with vncounted heads, The still discordant, wauering Multitude. 1611Cotgr. s.v. Brebis, The wolfe eats counted, as well as uncounted, sheepe. 1677Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 3) 375 Above threescore millions of Men, Women being uncounted. 1782Johnson Ode Death Levet viii, The busy day—the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by. 1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) V. 700 A mass of uncounted money. 1837Carlyle Misc. (1840) V. 17 How they lay, for uncounted ages and æons,..Silently imbedded in the rock. 1868Morris Earthly Par. (1870) I. ii. 511 Upon the floor uncounted medals lay. |