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unreˈmembered, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not borne in mind; allowed to drop out of mind; forgot.
With early examples cf. unremember v.
c1400Found. St. Bartholomew's xii. 17 Innumerable were schewid tokynnys of myracles, but..they be almoyste vnremembred. 1422Yong tr. Secreta Secret. 203 For als moche as good newe ensamples sholde not ben vnremembrid for lerynge of tho that arne to come. 1584Hutton Let. in Campbell Chancellors (1856) II. 273 Towards yourself leave not the causes of my presumptions unremembered. 1607Hieron Wks. I. 260 This feare causeth them..to be vnwilling to let any of it [sc. comfort of the Scriptures] fall to the ground vnremembred. 1641Milton Reform. ii. 69 Nor must their sincere..proceeding hitherto, be unremember'd. 1734A. Hill On Death Dennis 9 The furious petulence, the jealous start,..Veil'd in thy grave shall unremember'd lie. 1798Wordsw. Tintern Abbey 31 Feelings too Of unremembered pleasure. 1816Southey Lay of Laureate lxxvi, Where in elder time Earth's unremember'd conquerors held the sway. 1853G. Johnston Nat. Hist. E. Borders I. 29 A skirmish of unremembered date.
†b. (Left) unrecorded or unmentioned. Obs.
c1477Caxton Jason 52 Hit is not to be vnremembrid that thenuie of..Peleus grewe so terribly that he..coude haue no reste. a1513Fabyan Chron. i. i, Whiche if any suche wonder had ben there wroughte, shuld nat haue ben vn⁓remembred [by] the wryters. 1570Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) 19/2 Which doubtles shoulde not haue bene vnremembred, if he had bene then in Rome. 1603G. Owen Pembrokeshire (1892) 219 For the better memorye of these..members, not to suffer them vnremembered in this my Discripcion of their Country. c1650P. Smith Life Willet in Fuller Abel Red. (1651) 565, I thought good..to adde some remarkable things then unremembred or undiscovered.
†2. Of persons: Unmindful, forgetful. Obs.
1467Paston Lett. II. 306 He thynkyth indoubted that William Worcetre shuld not be unremembred of this. a1528Bp. R. Fox in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. II. 6, I am not un⁓remembred of my deutye towardes the Kyng. 1536E. Lee Ibid. Ser. iii. II. 326, I trust your Highnes is not unremembred, that [etc.]. |