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unreˈlated, ppl. a.
[un-1 8, 5 b.]
1. Not connected by blood; not akin.
a1661Fuller Worthies, London ii. (1662) 207 But let others unrelated unto him write his Character. a1677Barrow Serm. (1686) III. 36 'Tis not the example..of a stranger, of one indifferent, or unrelated to us. 1706De Foe Jure Div. x. 219 Of foreign Breed, of unrelated Race,..A spurious Birth of intermingl'd Blood. a1752Warburton Serm. Wks. 1788 V. 79 They..despised the rest of the sons of Adam, who..were deemed to be naturally unrelated to them. 1875Maine Hist. Inst. iii. 65 The tribesmen of an alien and unrelated tribe. 1882Farrar Early Chr. II. 218 Seven emperors..for the most part entirely unrelated to one another.
2. Not standing in relationship or connexion.
1668H. More Div. Dial. i. xxxv. 156 If they were so unrelated indeed in the..apprehension of them,..then I confess the Inference might be sound. 1701Norris Ideal World i. ii. 92 For things to be only conditionally related..is really to be unrelated to, and separated from one another. 1785Burke Corr. (1844) III. 42 Detached and unrelated offences. 1817R. Jameson Cuvier's Ess. Theory Earth (ed. 3) p. vii, Petrifactions are no longer viewed..as things isolated and unrelated to the rocks. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. i. 6 A theory..which..apparently referred a great number of unrelated phenomena to a common cause.
3. Not recounted or told.
1764Museum Rust. IV. 32 Some peculiar circumstance in the soil,..or..some unrelated circumstance in the culture. 1796F. Burney Camilla x. xiii, A reciprocal confidence that left nothing untold, not an action unrelated.
Hence unreˈlatedness.
1854Sylvester Coll. Math. Papers (1908) II. 32 The number of singularities (including absolute unrelatedness and entire coincidence within the purview of the term). |