unconceivedadj.
1. † b. Uncomprehended; not understood. Obsolete. rare.
a. Not conceived or thought of; unimagined.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > lack of imagination > [adjective] > not imagined
unconceived1434
unhoped1435
unimagined1548
unthoughted1598
undreameda1616
unimaged1648
unfancied1651
unthought1658
inconceivable1829
unbethought1855
R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Mending of Life 126 God truly is infinit.., of all wroght kyndes vnconsauyd.
1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. Postscr. 104 Sith..that is almost vnseene which is vnconceiued.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iii. 106 Renowned Load-stone, which on Iron acts,..Attracts it strangely..With vnknowne Cords, with vnconceaued Hooks.
1648 J. Beaumont Psyche xiv. lxii. 256 Judas, who neer this place did frying lie, With unconceived anguish gnash'd his Teeth.
1710 G. Berkeley Treat. Princ. Human Knowl. §23 It is necessary that you conceive them existing unconceived or unthought of.
1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the First 7 They live! they greatly live a life on earth Unkindled, unconceiv'd.
1838 E. A. Poe Narr. A. G. Pym in Wks. (1864) IV. 89 Events..of the most unconceived and unconceivable character.
1871 J. Morley Vauvenargues in Crit. Misc. (1878) 1st Ser. 9 The Encyclopædia was yet unconceived.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > [adjective] > not understood
unapprehended1597
uncomprehended1598
unconceived1619
ununderstood1639
unfathomless1673
ungrasped1743
unrealized1852
unseizable1862
1619 S. Purchas Microcosmus lxix. 689 In the meane while, sometimes without dores, on Horse-backe, they heare their vn-conceiued Liturgie.
2. Not brought into being; not properly formed or developed.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [adjective]
wanmola1325
rudea1393
lewdc1425
rustyc1425
unpolisheda1450
roidc1485
inelegant1509
gross1513
rough?1520
barbarous1526
ineloquent1532
inconcinnate1534
crabby1550
crabbed1561
uneloquent1565
unelegant1570
unkempt1579
unfiled1590
illiterate1598
unconceived1599
aliterate1624
incompta1628
scabbed1630
uncombed1633
uncompt1633
uncouth1694
coarse1699
slatternly1783
crude1786
warty1822
stumbling1859
the world > existence and causation > creation > [adjective] > created or produced > not created > not yet created
unmadea1325
unengendered1578
unspawned1814
unconceived1848
meonic1937
meontic1951
1599 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie (new ed.) iii. Satyra Nova sig. G8v Whilst I..abuse chast virgin Time, Deflowring her with vnconceiued rime.
1848 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 3) 205 All the forms Of plant, fish, brute, bird, insect, and the lives Insensible and unconceived.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
<
adj.1434