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unˈpointed, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
†1. Not furnished with tagged points or laces. Obs.
1574Hellowes tr. Gueuara's Fam. Ep. (1577) 254 His shirt ragged, his doublet lose and vnpoynted.
2. a. Not punctuated.
1593Marlowe Edw. II, v. iv, But read it thus, and thats an other sence:..Vnpointed as it is, thus shall it goe. 1641Prynne Antip. 267 This ambiguous sentence unpointed, they take for a sufficient warrant, and most pittifully murthered the innocent King. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. iii. 107 He returned unto them a Ridling Answere, altogether un⁓pointed.
b. Not provided with vowel-points or similar marks.
1640Sir E. Dering Carmelite (1641) 30 Three words in Greek, whereof one was unpointed. 1659Bp. Walton Consid. Considered 278 There is no such uncertainty in the Text unpointed, as is pretended by them. 1778R. Lowth Transl. Isaiah Notes 236 It is upon a rasure in a third; and left unpointed at first, as suspected, in a fourth. 1845Proc. Philol. Soc. II. 172 An i, written in certain cases, but more generally in unpointed texts only perceptible in the pronunciation. 1877Caird Philos. Kant 203 Like the reader of unpointed Hebrew, who supplies for himself the vowels.
3. Not furnished with a point; lacking point or finish.
1632B. Jonson Magn. Lady iv. iii, Pro. Which, ending here, would have shown dull, flat, and unpointed; without any shape or sharpness. 1681Dryden Abs. & Achit. ii. 502 But thou in Clumsy verse, unlickt, unpointed, Hast Shamefully defi'd the Lord's Anointed. 1887Bowen æneid vi. 760 [He] leans on a lance unpointed and bright.
4. Not pointed at.
a1555J. Philpot Apol. (1559) A 5 b, That the simple people maye beware of their Pharisaical venome,..suffre them not to passe by you vnpointed at. 1642Howell For. Trav. (Arb.) 13 Yet one's..personall conversation will still find out something new and unpointed at by any other. |