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unˈfathomed, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Of unascertained depth; unsounded.
1628Feltham Resolves ii. xxvii. 85 [The river] at last..inwaves it selfe in the vnfathom'd Ocean. 1634Milton Comus in Birch Wks. (1738) I. p. vii, Halfe his wast Flood the wide Atlantique fills, And halfe the slow unfadom'd Stygian Poole. 1723S. Centlivre Stolen Heiress v, Ope' earth, hide me in thy unfathom'd womb. 1757Gray Elegy xiv, Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear. 1813Shelley Q. Mab iv. 95 The lovely silence of the unfathomed main. 1873Proctor Expanse Heav. 302 He still saw that cloudy light which speaks of star depths as yet unfathomed.
b. In fig. context. (Cf. 2.)
1623Middleton & Rowley Sp. Gipsy iii. iii, A soul drown'd deep In the unfathom'd seas of matchless sorrows. 1683Norris Passions of Saviour 5 Sing the unfathom'd depths of love. 1755Young Centaur iv, The first moment man quits hold of his Creator, he drops! In distraction and ruin, how unfathomed his fall! 1817Byron Manfred i. i. 243 By thy unfathom'd gulfs of guile,..I call upon thee! 1861W. F. Collier Hist. Eng. Lit. 146 The unfathomed depths of the poet's mind.
2. fig. Not fully explored or known; unascertained; immense.
1659T. Pecke Parnassi Puerp. 181 Nature in the un⁓fathom'd Stagyrite, Compos'd a Body, abject to the sight. 1688Prior Ode vi, Man does with dangerous Curiosity These unfathom'd Wonders try. 1784Cowper Task ii. 538 When in him reside Grace, knowledge, comfort—an unfathom'd store. 1809Coleridge Friend (1865) 61 If the mere acquiescence in truth, uncomprehended and unfathomed, were sufficient. 1897Atlantic Monthly LXXIX. 35 That was the thought of the unfathomed might of man. |