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undiˈscovered, ppl. a.
[un-1 8 and 5 b.]
†1. Uncovered, exposed. Obs.—1
1542Boorde Dyetary viii. (1870) 247 When..you do slepe, let not..your handes, nor fete,..lye bare vndyscouered.
2. Undisclosed, unrevealed; not cleared up.
a1542Wyatt Psalm, ‘Oh happy ar they’ 20 As adder freshe new stryppid from his skin, nor in his sprite is owght vndiscoverd. 1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 64 All your loue is apparant and manifest unto me.., and neuer a part or parcel thereof left undiscouered. 1611Shakes. Wint. T. v. ii. 130 This Mysterie remained vndiscouer'd. 1697Tutchin Search Honesty v, In whose Bigg Bellies undiscover'd lye The Fate of Kings. 1867M. Arnold A Wish vii, The future and its viewless things—That undiscover'd mystery.
3. Not discovered, found, or come upon.
1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 285 What parts of the baul of the earth remained yet vndiscouered. 1602Shakes. Ham. iii. i. 79 The vndiscouered Countrey, from whose Borne No Traueller returnes. 1676Glanvill Ess. vii. 1 In that immense undiscover'd Abyss, that was beyond both the Old World, and the New. 1769E. Bancroft Guiana 2 If we may be allowed to form an idea of things undiscovered, by the immense variety..of its Animal and Vegetable Productions. 1806Lamb Mr. H― ii. Wks. 1908 II. 758 Some yet undiscovered Otaheite. 1850Tennyson In Mem. xl, My paths are in the fields I know, And thine in undiscover'd lands. 1894H. Nisbet Bush Girl's Rom. 171 They were not so pleased to hear that their cash was as yet undiscovered.
b. Not ascertained or made out.
1707Mortimer Husb. A 2 b, The detecting of specious and prevailing Errors,..so as to clear the way to what remains undiscovered. 1793Beddoes Calculus 273 The grasses (of which the product is variable from undiscovered causes). 1855Brewster Newton II. xxvii. 408 Those inspired doctrines which alone can throw a light over the dark ocean of undiscovered truth.
4. Not found out; unobserved, undetected.
1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, iii. i. 369 Full often Hath he conuersed with the Enemie, And vndiscouer'd, come to me againe. 1669Sturmy Mariner's Mag., Penalties & Forfeit. 4 Goods..that shall be Exported, and escape undiscovered unto the Officers of the Customs. 1697C. Leslie Snake in Grass (ed. 2) 308 The Quakers take it very ill to suppose that Jesuits cou'd Preach among them undiscover'd. 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 63 A little cape which kept us perfectly undiscovered. 1798S. & Ht. Lee Canterb. T. II. 101 Let me fly undiscovered. 1890Retrospect Med. CII. 310 In order to guard against the possibility of leaving a perforation undiscovered. |