unbookedadj.
1. ⓘ
a. Not entered, registered, or recorded in a book.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > [adjective] > unrecorded, unmentioned
unremembered1450
unentered1482
silent1564
unrecorded1577
unbooked1587
untolled1591
unregistered1603
unchronicled1610
unminuted1775
recordless1828
unindexed1832
unenrolled1837
uncalendared1850
unfiled1864
unticketed1865
undocumented1883
unlogged1883
de-accessioned1973
1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 140/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II If any of them were found vnbooked and not registred, that he should be vsed as a fellon where so euer he was taken.
b. Not pre-engaged by booking.
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1877 Western Mail 21 Mar. 3 The few vacant seats still remaining may, if they continue unbooked, be engaged by application at the music warehouse, No. 4, Queen-street.
2. Not booklearned.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > want of learning, illiteracy > [adjective] > not studious
unliterate1548
unbookisha1616
unbooklearned1633
unscholastic1690
unreading1728
bookless1734
unliterary1788
unbooked1859
non-literate1891
book-shy1902
1859 D. Masson Brit. Novelists iv. 220 There are rich fields of yet unbooked English life both in northern and in southern England.
1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 139 From the unbooked freshness of the Scottish peasant to the most far-sought phrase of literary curiosity.
3. Not provided with books; in quot. absol.
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1926 Publishers' Weekly 22 May 1716/1 The question of reaching the unbooked.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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