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unˈguessed, ppl. a.
[un-1 8 and 8 c.]
†1. Unexpected, unlooked-for. Obs.
c1400Comm. Luke (MS. Bodl. 143) i. 7 God ordeyned þat ioon was born of fadir & modir of old age,..þat bi vngessid birþe of child a graciousere ȝifte shulde enfourme hem.
2. Not solved or known by guessing.
1590Spenser F.Q. i. ix. 7 For whither he through fatall deepe foresight Me hither sent, for cause to me vnghest, Or [etc.]. 1805Scott Last Minstr. v. xvii, But cause of terror, all unguess'd, Was fluttering in her gentle breast. 1837Lytton Athens I. 50 The frequent operation of causes unrecognised, unforeseen, unguest. 1900Pilot 22 Sept. 358/2 An explanation of its mysterious and once unseen and unguessed processes.
b. Not guessed at, not dreamt of.
1746Eliza Heywood Female Spect. No. 22 (1748) IV. 203 By what unseen, unguessed at means, are frequently the greatest events brought about! 1838Lytton Zicci xiv, Art thou some itinerant mountebank, or some unguest-of-friend? 1876C. M. Yonge Womankind xiii, The best endeavours..are often frustrated by some unguessed-at peril. |