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unˈopened, ppl. a.
[un-1 8. Cf. Du. ongeopened.]
1. Not opened; left, or remaining, closed or shut:
a. Of letters, books, etc.
1600E. Blount tr. Conestaggio 74 This Letter..remained still with them vnopened. 1700Farquhar Constant Couple i. i, Angelica, send it [sc. a letter] back unopened! say you? 1711Lady M. W. Montagu Let. to W. Montagu 26 Feb., If you write, be not displeased if I send it back unopened. 1766Parlt. Deb. (1813) XVI. 303 [They] went to statute books before unopened,.. and there made the amazing, astonishing discovery. 1836H. Coleridge Northern Worthies (1852) I. 43 A sealed and unopened epistle. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. i. iii, A book..unopened on a shelf. 1888Jacobi Printer's Vocab., Unopened edges, applied to books the edges of which have not been opened.
b. In other applications.
1627May Lucan iii. D 7, Before the yet vnopen'd doore he stay'd. 1742Young Nt. Th. ii. 468 Like bales unopen'd to the sun. 1796Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 689 Unopened flowers nodding. 1843R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. ix. 102, I have frequently directed the blister to be left unopened. 1884in A. Cawston Street Improv. London (1893) 117 The consequences of leaving culs de sac even of a respectable kind unopened.
2. Not opened up for use.
1756P. Browne Jamaica 13 Every settler inclined to reserve some unopened land. 1858Ld. St. Leonards Handy-bk. Prop. Law xxiii. 179 If you were to sell part of your estate, reserving the unopened mines with a right of entry. 1890Hallett 1000 Miles on Elephant 434 [To] throw open for British commerce the most magnificent, unopened, and available market in the world. |