unnamedadj.n.

1440 J. Capgrave Life St. Norbert (1977) l. 385 Swech wordis of slaundir were bettir onnamed.

1461 Charter Edinb. Reg. House No. 362 To be haldyn..alswele vnder the erde as abufe alswele unnamyet as namyt.

1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. clxii They shall vnnamyd my shyppis haue in cure.

1526 R. Whitford tr. Martiloge (1893) 65 A woman vnnamed, with her two chylder twyndles.

1599 T. Dallam Diary in J. T. Bent Early Voy. Levant (1893) i. 81 I have not time now to wryte them, but of force muste leave them un-named untill a time of better Leasur.

a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger False One ii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Qq4/2 Cæsars angry, And our designe to please him, lost, and perish'd: Be glad thou art unnam'd.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 595 Stil at Hels dark threshold to have sate watch, Unnam'd, undreaded. View more context for this quotation

1728 A. Ramsay On seeing Archers divert Themselves 136 Dear nymphs unnam'd, lay not the blame On us.

1798 S. Lee Young Lady's Tale in H. Lee Canterbury Tales II. 86 [She] left unnamed, and unprovided for, the young woman she had raised so far above her condition.

1836 J. C. Maitland Lett. from Madras (1843) 4 A number of hitherto unnamed gentlemen, who sit down to eat and drink.

1867 G. Meredith Vittoria II. xlv. 233 Throwing the burden..on some unnamed third person.

1928 Southern Reporter 116 322 The assaulted party had at some unnamed, indefinite time, bearing no relation to the time of the difficulty, owned a ‘switch blade’ knife.

2012 Sight & Sound Apr. 54/1 Apparently active-duty Seals played versions of themselves and remain unnamed for security reasons in the credits.

1550 R. Sherry Treat. Schemes & Tropes sig. F.ii The soule because it is a substaunce hathe her vnnamed forme, whereby she is a soule, and not an aungel.

1555 R. Eden in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde Contents sig. YYYy.ii^v Howe the Admirall gaue names to .vii. hundreth Ilandes, and passed by three thousande vnnamed.

1611 J. Donne Anat. World sig. A5^v As a child kept from the Font,..thou vnnam'd hadst laid.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 140 From Hamath Northward to the Desert South (Things by thir names I call, though yet unnam'd ). View more context for this quotation

1753 ‘T. Broderick’ Lett. from Several Parts Europe & East I. lvi. 319 A number of other distinct species [of marble], left unnamed by them, and by every body else also.

1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes i. 16 The Highest Being reveals himself in man. This body, these faculties, this life of ours, is it not all as a vesture for that Unnamed?

1868 W. Morris Earthly Paradise i. 338 Robe..Inwrought with flowers of unnamed colours bright.

1876 S. Smiles Life Sc. Naturalist x. 202 Among the plants, were a great number unnamed.

1930 W. A. Dayton in Forest Worker 6 14/1 Fitting an acceptable English name to an unnamed or untenably named genus or species.

2011 Time Out N.Y. 24 Mar. 61/1 An unnamed protagonist—played by the director, a man fond of sunglasses and rakishly angled berets.

1802 R. C. Dallas Elements Self-knowledge p. xxviii Ossa innominata. Lat. unnamed bones. See Innominata.

a1836 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VII. 329/1 Of the Unnamed bone.

1870 J. Marshall Descr. Human Body (ed. 2) i. 11 Each hip-bone, also called the Innominate, or unnamed bone, is originally composed of three separate pieces.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1302 The fused sacral vertebrae give attachment on each side to a strangely shaped bone, which was contradictorily called ‘the unnamed bone’ or os innominatum.