单词 | unowned |
释义 | unownedadj. 1. Not possessed as property, without an owner or possessor.In quot. 1637: figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > non-possession > fact of not being possessed or owned > [adjective] > having no owner vacant1560 unpossessed1582 unowned1611 unoweda1616 unmastered1793 ownerless1806 unattached1888 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Vuayves,..things which bee left, abandoned, escheated, or vnowned. 1635 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Donzella Desterrada 57 The Law declareth things unowned to be his that first comes to the enjoying of them. 1637 J. Milton Comus 14 Lest some ill greeting touch attempt the person Of our unowned sister. 1766 Crit. Rev. Jan. 4 The temporal branch of the king's ordinary revenue arises from..shipwrecks unowned [etc.]. 1797 J. Dallaway Constantinople v. 71 The only scavengers are packs of unowned dogs of the wolf breed. 1803 Asiatic Ann. Reg. 1802 33/1 Any other than a Brahmana or king, occupying unowned property, must give a sixth part to the king. 1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 12 Jan. 5/1 Unowned wires, he admitted, must be dealt with. 1938 Jrnl. Farm Econ. 20 662 In 1934, 11 of the town's 102 families lived rent-free in unowned homes. 1979 R. Nozick in T. Honderich & M. Burnyeat Philos. as it Is 118 Locke views property rights in an unowned object as originating through someone's mixing his labour with it. 2002 D. Goleman et al. Business: Ultimate Resource 161/1 In the real world, an unowned space is divided into owned parcels. 2. Unacknowledged; unadmitted. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > repudiation or refusal to acknowledge > [adjective] > not acknowledging > not acknowledged unknowledgedc1475 unacknowledged1583 silenced1609 unprofessed1647 unowned1653 unentered1691 1653 W. Ramesey Astrologia Restaurata (title page) Proving the Legality of Astrologie..to remain unshaken notwithstanding the Doctors unowned Reply. 1715 J. Gay Epist. Earl Burlington 40 Here unown'd infants find their daily food; For should the maiden mother nurse her son, 'Twould spoil her match. 1747 S. Richardson Clarissa II. xlii. 285 I know not my own heart, if I have any of that latent or un-owned inclination. 1793 W. Roberts Looker-on No. 46. 362 An action unowned by the delicacy of its real author. 1865 C. M. Yonge Dove in Eagle's Nest vii The poor little unowned bride had more to undergo than her imagination had conceived. 1897 B. Pullen-Burry Blotted Out 65 [Her] unowned child..had blossomed into one of the most famous actresses of the day. 1909 T. Hardy Time's Laughingstocks & Other Verses 4 And I bore towards the Ridge, With a dim unowned emotion. 1991 R. Goldstein Dark Sister ii. 8 She felt herself the repository of all the unowned anger of all the gently smiling females. 2005 N. Yarom Matrix of Hysteria i. iv. 111 We often find mutual seduction..in the pursuit of unattainable (unowned) love. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1611 |
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