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单词 unnumbered
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unnumberedadj.

Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈnʌmbəd/, U.S. /ˌənˈnəmbərd/
Forms: see un- prefix1 and numbered adj.; also Scottish 1900s– unnumert.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix1, number v., -ed suffix1.
Etymology: < un- prefix1 + number v. + -ed suffix1. Compare later numbered adj.
1. That may not be counted or reckoned up; innumerable, very many.
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the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > [adjective] > not numbered or reckoned
un-i-rimeOE
untoldc1000
un-i-rimedOE
unnumbereda1382
unsummeda1400
innumered1471
uncounteda1500
unpolled1652
unreckoned1690
unenumerated1799
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) 3 Kings x. 2 Sche gon out with gret cumpanye..& camailis berynge sweete oynementis & gold vnnoumbrid [L. infinitum] ful myche & preciouse jemmys.
R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Mending of Life 126 God truly is infinit of gretnes,..of swetnes vn-nowmbyrde.
1480 Cronicles Eng. (Caxton) ccxxxii. sig. q6 There were take many knyȝtes & squyers, & othir men that were vnnombred.
1581 J. Heywood tr. Seneca Hercules Furens (new ed.) ii. in T. Newton et al. tr. Seneca 10 Trag. sig. Cv Vnnumbred Nations hath sent downe to sprightes Wyth one Boateman all ouer feryed bee.
1594 R. Carew tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne i. 14 Where midst vnnumbred troopes of Paganie..few of his Countrey are.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iii. i. 63 The Skies are painted with vnnumbred sparkes. View more context for this quotation
1656 A. Cowley Davideis i. 19 in Poems Of Numbers too th' unnumbred wealth he showes.
1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. ii. 211 Unnumber'd Birds glide thro' th' aerial way.
1746 J. Hervey Refl. Flower-garden 4 in Medit. among Tombs Prodigious Theatre!.. Where..Worlds un-numbered roll at large!
1844 A. W. Kinglake Eothen xi. 172 The fleas of all nations were there:—Asiatic hordes unnumbered.
1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn II. lvi. 281 To represent these unnumbered agonies as a festival of expiation.
1922 J. Dos Passos Pushcart at Curb 89 One more has joined the unnumbered Deathstruck multitudes.
1962 G. Murchie Music of Spheres xiv. 598 Unnumbered worlds more enlightened, more beautiful in spirit than our undistinguished speck.
2000 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 15 June 23/1 Unnumbered faceless FBI agents and intelligence operatives.
2. Not included in an enumeration; not marked or provided with a number.
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the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > [adjective] > not numbered or reckoned > omitted from numbering
unnumbered?a1425
?a1425 tr. Catherine of Siena Orcherd of Syon (Harl.) (1966) 125 Therefore sich oon þat so is aloone and oon by his owne propre loue is vnnoumbrid and vntoold of my sone, sooþfastnes.
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. H.vijv The .ix. Epiphanes of the Egiptiens was vnnoumbred and putte downe.
1651 J. Hall Grounds & Reasons 17 Though the understandings of most men..seem to flee to some generall Maximes (yet unpolished, unnumbered, and unmethodized).
1654 Ld. Hatton in E. Nicholas Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 147 I have receaved yours (unnumbred) of the 8th of Dec.
1701 W. Anstruther Ess., Moral & Divine v. 236 Who gazes here, with carnal Reasons Eye, Shall be confounded, with the dazleing ray, Of this transcendent Glorious mystery. Which was contriv'd from all Eternitie, By th' numerous One, and the unnumbered Three.
1799 W. Tooke View Russ. Empire II. iii. 128 Thus far we are enabled to ground the calculation of the number of the people on actual enumerations; but for the state of the unnumbered classes..we have only probable and partly-authenticated data to proceed upon.
1816 J. Wilson City of Plague ii. iii. 94 He for his lust, Unnumber'd lies.
1892 J. C. Pilling Bibliogr. Athapascan Langs. 27/2 The final unnumbered pages at the end give the parts of the body in detail.
1911 D. N. Carvalho & H. C. Bartlett Catal. D. N. Carvalho Coll. Incunabula 15 74 unnumbered leaves without signature-mark (the last two blank and genuine).
1990 L. Picknett Encycl. Paranormal 71/2 There are fifty-six unnumbered cards, known as the Minor Arcana, which are divided into four suits.
2002 Daily Express (E. Malaysia) 21 Nov. 4/3 Mazne admitted to stealing a VCD player belonging to Harris Ismail at an unnumbered house in Kg Sungai Padang at 7.30pm on Aug 28 this year.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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