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unreˈsolved, ppl. a.
[un-1 8, 5 b.]
1. Of questions, etc.: Undetermined, undecided, unsolved.
1577Holinshed Chron. II. 445/2 For to confesse..myne ignorance, or rather vnresolued doubt herein, I can not satisfie my selfe with any thing that I haue red. 1621First Bk. Discipl. 10 Because..Articles thereanent remaine yet unresolved, and referred to further conference. 1652Heylyn Cosmogr. i. 152 It is unresolved who this Samothes was. 1692Ray Disc. iii. ix. (1693) 348 So I leave this Question unresolved. 1754Edwards Freed. Will ii. iv. 48 [He] leaves all the Difficulty unresolved and the Question un⁓answered. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. I. 101 Doubt on such a subject once mooted might not be left unresolved. 1856Orr's Circ. Sci., Pract. Chem. 327 The reason of this is an unresolved enigma.
2. a. Uncertain or undetermined how to act; irresolute. Also transf. (quot. 1611).
1594Shakes. Rich. III, iv. iv. 436 To our Shores Throng many doubtfull hollow-hearted friends, Vnarm'd, and vnresolu'd to beat them backe. 1611Tourneur Ath. Trag. ii. i, With A kinde of unresolu'd unwilling pace. 1653H. Cogan tr. Pinto's Trav. xvi. 52 Being unresolved what course to take. 1691Norris Pract. Disc. 151 To be Doubtful and Unresolved in a business of such vast moment. 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 67 A crew of unresolved divided rogues. 1777Robertson Hist. Amer. vi. (1778) II. 236 He..was still unresolved, when the violence of the viceroy..moved him to quit his residence. 1821Scott Pirate xxxiv, Several were unresolved upon engaging in a..conflict.
absol.a1659Osborne Wks. (1673) 675 Nor did the readiness of the Scots to arm portend less in the ears of the un⁓resolved, than a possibility of Conquest.
b. Uncertain in opinion; undecided.
1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxii. §18 S. Augustines doubtfulnes..should not be mentioned by them which presume to define peremptorily of that wherein he was content to professe himselfe vnresolued. 1649F. Roberts Clavis Bibl. 259 Authors seem much unresolved herein. 1673[R. Leigh] Transp. Reh. 142 The way is so difficult and my guides unresolv'd. 1707Curios. in Husb. & Gard. 235 Boyle..is very much unresolved, and knows not what to think of these..Vegetations. 1784Cowper Task vi. 160 Unresolv'd Which hue she most approv'd. 1864F. W. Robinson Mattie, a Stray III. 220 She [was] unresolved as to what was best and just—for others, as well as for herself!
†c. Const. of. Obs.
1655Fuller Ch. Hist. ii. vi. §32 Either displeased at the Collect read,..or unresolved of the Efficacy of the Gold pendent about the Patients Neck. 1697Dryden æneis ix. 1078 So Turnus..unresolved of flight, Moves tardy back.
†3. Not formed of set purpose. Obs.—1
1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. ii. viii. 68 If the backsliding be but the interruption of the first sanctity by a single act, or an unconfirmed, unresolved, unmalicious habite.
4. Not broken up or dissolved.
(a)c1801Busby Dict. Music s.v. Canon, There are various kinds of canons: as the..resolved, the unresolved, the finite, and the infinite canon. 1837[Mrs. Maitland] Lett. fr. Madras (1843) 56 Imagine a succession of unresolved discords, selected at random. 1869Ouseley Counterp. xvi. 127 The unprepared and unresolved sevenths..produced by its inversion.
(b)1843R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xxi. 252 The hepatisation [of the lung] remains unresolved. 1850Nichol Archit. Heav. 54 The cluster in Hercules..never appeared devoid of unresolved light about its central regions. 1898Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 894 Fibroid disease of the lung..secondary to pleuritic effusion or unresolved pneumonia, &c.
Hence unreˈsolvedly adv.
1621Lady M. Wroth Urania 182, I gaue my answers vn⁓resoluedly. |