单词 | unkenned |
释义 | unkennedadj.n. Chiefly Scottish and English regional (northern). Now rare. 1. Not known through personal experience or acquaintance; unrecognized; unfamiliar, strange. Also in unkenned of.In quot. 1605 as n. (with the): people who are unknown considered as a class. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > that which is unknown > [adjective] uncouthc897 neweOE fremdc950 unknownOE unseena1200 unketha1275 unkedc1275 strange13.. disguisyc1330 unknowedc1380 aliena1382 unhearda1382 unkenneda1400 ranishc1400 ignorant?a1475 unwittenc1485 unbekend1513 unacquainted1551 unkent1579 unwitted1582 unfamiliar1593 unsounded1594 incognite1609 ignote1623 in the urn1658 unfathomed1659 unexperienced1698 unknown-of1700 undiscovered1707 inaudite1708 darka1727 unascertained1751 unwist1757 unknownst1805 unbeknown1824 unbeknownst1848 unsampled1890 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 28474 Wit womman knaun and vnkend. c1480 (a1400) St. Mary Magdalen 891 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 281 I ame scho..Þat here þe thretty vintir ay til al men has vnkennyt bene. a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 84 I aingyd [read aiugyd] þat þey [sc. secretez] sholde noght be vnkennyd to þy worthy myghtynesse. a1500 (a1400) Sir Eglamour (Cambr.) (1844) l. 843 A grype..Hur yonge sone awey..bare Yn-to a cuntre unkende. 1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 249 I am wonder wa to cum quhair I am vnkend. a1600 ( W. Stewart tr. H. Boece Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. l. 23584 Quhat movit thame it is wnkend to me. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iii. 113 Let me..among the Great vn-kend, My rest of daies in the calme Countrie end. 1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 193 Both of us altogether unkend and quite forgotten. 1721 A. Ramsay Keitha 37 Ye unkend pow'rs wha water haunt or air. 1786 R. Burns Poems 210 She lay like some unkend-of isle. 1814 W. Scott Waverley I. xviii. 280 For the..trouble which he had..to an unkenn'd degree. View more context for this quotation 1874 P. Dean Impossibility knowing what is Christianity 20 A consecration unkenned of by the hard headed townsman. 1893 S. R. Crockett Stickit Minister 120 Weel, it's no' onkenned to you that the twa first Maister Slees wraite their sermons. 1921 Hawick Express 12 Aug. 3 Freidom an' liberty are terms unkenned in that puir Communist ruled country. a1978 A. S. Borrowman Buik o Ruth & Ither Wark in Lallans (1979) 9 He was thirlt tae the wark o philologie, in parteeclar the unkenned leids o Europe. 2. Not seen or detected; unobserved; unascertained. Chiefly in predicative use, often with by, of, †to. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > [adjective] > unobserved, undiscovered unayetec1275 unespiedc1374 unperceiveda1375 unapperceived1390 unwitnessed1407 unkenneda1475 obscure1484 unaspied?1507 undiscerned1529 unsuspectedc1530 unspieda1542 unascried1548 undiscovered1555 unscried1578 unfound1584 undescried1595 undetectedc1602 uneyeda1627 undilucidated1635 insuspected1646 indiscovered1663 unbeheld1667 trackless1695 unjealoused1710 unbeholden1820 unencountered1821 undivined1852 unexcavated1874 uncognized1877 a1475 Bk. Curtasye (Sloane 1986) l. 816 in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 326 When þe vssher comys to þe borde ende, Þo narow towelle he strecches vnkende. 1543 ( Chron. J. Hardyng (1812) 361 Sir Henry..went awaye vnkende To Berwyk so. 1592 S. Daniel Complaint Rosamond 422 Witnesse the world, wherein is nothing rifer, Then miseries vnken'd before they come. a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 417 No Ship in the Day time, can pass unken'd. 1747 G. Ridley Psyche xxiv, in Museum III. 88 Unkenn'd of her, he raught the embroider'd Bank. a1819 J. W. Eastburn & R. C. Sands Yamoyden (1820) ii. 55 Lovely shapes, unkenned by grosser eyes. 1861 St. James's Mag. 1 75 Aften had he, unkenned by his mither, gaed out in a boat. 1927 S. Sassoon Heart's Journey ii Watch with me, inward solemn influence, Invisible, intangible, unkenned. 3. Of a place, route, etc.: unexplored, unvisited; untravelled.In quot. 1904 in figurative context. ΚΠ 1809 Port Folio Nov. 442 O'er stormy seas and shores unkenned, Hither at last our course we bend. 1890 Æ. Prince Palomide 25 Deep in trackless, unkenned ways. 1899 C. M. Thomson Drummeldale 157 That last step out o' this life, into unkenned space, is yin oo wad a' fain escape if oo could. 1904 S. R. Crockett Strong Mac xiv. 96 Sixteen to nineteen... And over this unkenned ocean each daughter of Eve must be her own Columbus. Derivatives unˈkennedness n. [compare earlier uncunness n., uncunningness n.] rare ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > that which is unknown > [noun] > unknown quality unlikenessc1225 unknownness1580 unkennedness1896 1896 F. A. Steel On Face of Waters i. v. 51 There was a strange unkennedness about their would-be familiarity. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.a1400 |
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