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▪ I. unˈthought, n.
(un-1 12.)
1866Mrs. Whitney L. Goldthwaite xii, Something different in thought and purpose from the apparent unthought about her. 1892P. W. Clayden Eng. under Coalition xv. 315 To show to which side the charge of credulity, of rashness and of unthought belonged.
▪ II. unˈthought, ppl. a.
[un-1 8 b, 8 c. Cf. MHG. ungedaht (G. ungedacht), Du. ongedacht.]
1. a. Not thought of, unexpected.
a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VI, 110 b, While kyng Charles did politiquely consider..what a sodain and vnthought chaunce of a smal thyng, might do in a battaill. 1653J. Taylor (Water P.) Cert. Trav. Uncert. Journ. 16 Undeserv'd, unlook'd for, and unthought From them my purse and person both were fraught. 1738G. Lillo Marina ii. i, The hot salt tears this unthought loss drew from me. 1745Young Nt. Th. viii. 114 As they spin our hours On Fortune's wheel, where accident unthought Oft, in a moment, snaps life's strongest thread. 1903Kipling Five Nations, Wage-Slaves 61 They that have wrought the end unthought Be neither saint nor sage.
b. With on, of, out. (Cf. think v.2 5 c, 7 b, 15.)
1538Elyot, Inopinatus, vnthought on or vnloked for. a1586Sidney Arcadia i. iv, It may be, his pen with more leasure doth polish the rudenesse of an unthought-on songe. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, iii. ii. 141 The day..That..This gallant Hotspur..And your vnthought-of Harry chance to meet. 1621Lady M. Wroth Urania 451 One night he came vnlook'd for to our house, but not vnthought on by me. 1666Boyle Orig. Forms & Qual. 418 By a way unthought on (that I know of) by any Body. 1676Hale Contempl. i. 52 A little..accident..may put a period to all those pleasures.. in an unthought of moment. 1713Berkeley Hylas & Phil. iii. Wks. 1871 I. 356 What security can I have..that no unthought-of objection or difficulty will occur hereafter? 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) III. xxxvi. 216 Consequences, unthought of by you or me. 1860Froude Hist. Eng. V. 490 A return to communion with the See of Rome was unthought of. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 449 This distant, long-dry, unthought-of reservoir. 1919M. K. Bradby Psycho-Anal. & its Place in Life x. 12 An unthought-out attitude is shown and resulting unhappiness. 1933W. E. Orchard From Faith to Faith vi. 80 It may..reveal to those who cling to a merely traditional and un-thought-out orthodoxy what it is that often inspires such liberalism. 1978R. Ludlum Holcroft Covenant xiv. 163 There were canvases with bold dashes of color and heavy, un-thought-out lines.
†2. (With complement or ellipt.) Not regarded in a certain (specified or implied) way. unthought long, without feeling time long. Obs.
1595Spenser Epithal. 378 Thou likewise didst loue, though now vnthought. a1637B. Jonson Underwoods, Eupheme ix. 44 As spirits had stolne her spirit in a kisse,..And left her lovely body unthought dead! a1806in R. Jamieson Pop. Ballads I. 94 He harpit to the king, To haud him unthought lang.
3. Unimagined; not devised in thought.
1639Cokaine Masque Dram. Wks. (1874) 10 Forsake the woods, fond Satyr, and but try The unthought difference 'twixt them and us! 1672Marvell Reh. Transp. ii. (1674) 46, I wish it unsaid as it was unthought. 1743Young Nt. Th. v. 147 Each salutation may slide in a sin Unthought before. 1815Milman Fazio 67 Is't to be mad..To speak with..continuous flow, Yet know not how the unthought words start from me? 1850Thackeray Pendennis lxxii, If you knew..how I lie awake and think of those hard sentences,..and wish them unspoken, unthought!
†4. Unheeded, disregarded. Obs.
1640Yorke Union Hon. 185 [He] returned from his unthought banishment, [and] tooke King Richard prisoner.
†5. Unpremeditated. Obs.
1648Pol. Ballads (1860) I. 74 With speech unthought, quick revelation,..See a new Teacher of the Town. |