单词 | unsounded |
释义 | † unsoundedadj.1 Obsolete. rare. Not healed. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > [adjective] > not cured or healed unhealed?c1225 unsounded1420 uncured1548 unreduced1705 unimproved1879 1420–2 J. Lydgate Story of Thebes ii. 2438 Wherto shuld I write..of the sorowe that Polymytes Mad in hym-silf to sen hym so forwounded, His greuous hurtes, his soorys, ek vnsounded. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2021). unsoundedadj.2 Not sounded, uttered, or pronounced; not made to sound. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > loss or lack of voice > [adjective] > silent (of letter) unsounded1530 unbesound?1533 silent1582 mute1638 society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > [adjective] > not sounded unsounded1807 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement Introd. 16 No vowell is left unsounded..in a frenche worde. ?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Bi v If the next worde..be a consonant, than shall the said s, remayne vnsounde. 1807 J. Barlow Columbiad v. 202 Every honest Muse with horror flings The name unsounded from her sacred strings. 1865 Trans. Philol. Soc. 15 The unsounded syllable of the third person plural of the French verb. 1884 H. R. Haweis My Musical Life 119 I keep my Strad. in a cabinet behind glass. There he rests unsounded and unstrung. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021). unsoundedadj.3 1. a. Not sounded or plummeted; unfathomed. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iii. ii. 80 Orpheus Lute,..Whose golden touch could..Make Tygers tame, and huge Leuiathans Forsake vnsounded deepes, to dance on Sands. View more context for this quotation 1616 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals II. i. 4 The Tyde..whereon his Carre should sweepe, Deckt with the riches of th'vnsounded deepe. 1651 T. Stanley Venus Vigils in Poems 77 Piercing through the unsounded sea. 1861 L. L. Noble After Icebergs 243 Where with the surf around its shoulders..it stood far up from the unsounded valleys of ocean. b. figurative or in figurative contexts. 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 1594 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 iii. i. 57 Gloster is a man Vnsounded yet, and full of deepe deceit. 1607 G. Chapman Bussy D'Ambois iii. 39 O the vnsounded Sea of womens bloods, That when tis calmest, is most dangerous. 1634 T. Jackson Knowledg of Christ Jesus vii. xix. §6 I would request every ingenuous sober reader..not adventure to saile in a narrow..and unsounded sea only with the help of a generall carde. a1750 A. Hill Muse to Writer xxxiii This is a subject, that, outstretching thought, Through depths unsounded, wit's long plummet draws. 1826 F. D. Hemans Forest Sanctuary lxxi Th' unsounded gulfs of human woe! 1876 A. C. Swinburne Erechtheus 939 Mine unknown children of unsounded years. 1878 Emerson in N. Amer. Rev. CXXVI. 409 To good men, as we call good men, this doctrine of Trust is an unsounded secret. 2. Unprobed, unexamined. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > [adjective] > investigated, examined > not unsoughta1400 unexamined1495 unlooked1517 unsearched1526 unransacked1529 unsurveyed1546 unsighted1584 unsoundedc1620 unreviewed1645 unpried into1647 unprobed?1691 unrummaged1715 uninvestigated1816 uninspected1858 unscreened1970 c1620 T. Robinson Mary Magdalene (1899) i. lxii. 534 Vaine woman!..shall thy heart vnsounded, still remaine vnsound? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.11420adj.21530adj.31594 |
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