unresolvedadj.n.

1565 W. Alley Πτωχομυσεῖον i. vii. f. 280 We must weigh and consider, whither any thing be spoken and proposed simply or doubtfully, affirmatiuely, definitiuely, or leauing it vnresolued.

1566 J. Rastell Treat.: Beware of M. Iewel ii. i. sig. Nviii^v To proue that which is not doubted of, and to leaue the doubt vnresolued, which only is moued.

1621 First & Second Bk. Discipline (Church of Scotl.) 10 Because..Articles thereanent remaine yet unresolved, and referred to further conference.

1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie i. sig. N4^v It is unresolved who this Samothes was.

1692 J. Ray Misc. Disc. ix. 186 So I leave this Question unresolved.

1754 J. Edwards Careful Enq. Freedom of Will ii. iv. 48 [He] leaves all the Difficulty unresolved, and the Question unanswered.

1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. I. 101 Doubt on such a subject once mooted might not be left unresolved.

1856 Orr's Circle of Sci., Pract. Chem. 327 The reason of this is an unresolved enigma.

1940 Economist 5 Oct. 431/2 The liberalisation of bank loans to farmers still left unresolved the problem of the bad..credit proposition.

1991 T. Kizzia Wake of Unseen Object iii. 62 The question of whose dogs were best was still unresolved.

2011 Obstetr., Gynaecol. & Reprod. Med. 21 260/1 The issue as to what constitutes appropriate fetal surveillance remains unresolved.

1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar ii. 68 If the backsliding be but the interruption of the first sanctity by a single act, or an unconfirmed, unresolved, unmalicious habite.

1651 J. French tr. J. R. Glauber Descr. New Philos. Furnaces i. 21 That red masse (being yet unresolved) being put on the oyle of sand, or flints..makes a tree to grow in the space of one or two hours.

1675 N. Grew Disc. conc. Mixture v. 101 The top of the unresolved Salt will be incrustate, or as it were frosted over, with many small and hard Concretions.

1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. i. xviii. 88 Finding the Tumours unresolved, we fomented them with Discutients boiled in a common Lixivium.

1684 W. Russell Physical Treat. 154 After Delivery, I viewing the Bag, in which the Child had been contained, did plainly discern the Compass of the Imposthume, and some part of the Matter unresolved, upon the Out-side of the Bag.

1739 P. Keir Enq. Medicinal Waters Bristol iii. 101 The unresolved matter continues impacted in the obstructed vessels.

1766 R. B. Cheston Pathol. Inq. & Observ. Surg. 144 Obstructions, which unresolved may give Rise to Inflammation.

1838 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 21 433 Blisters..are undoubtedly valuable remedies when the disease is still unresolved and the strength of the patient is failing.

1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xxi. 252 The hepatisation [of the lung] remains unresolved.

1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 894 Fibroid disease of the lung..secondary to pleuritic effusion or unresolved pneumonia, &c.

1923 Tubercle 5 12 An unresolved pneumonia causes a progressive shrinkage of the lobe or lobes affected.

1983 Jrnl. Hand Surg. 8 555/1 Careful evaluation was made of all patients who had unresolved infection after 72 hours.

2007 W. R. Clark In Def. of Self xii. 181 It is very similar to the immunopathology seen in unresolved infectious diseases or immunopathologies.

1742 J. Gaillard tr. P. F. Tosi Observ. Florid Song viii. 132 The resolved and unresolved Cadences.

1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music at Canon There are various kinds of canons: as the..resolved, the unresolved, the finite, and the infinite canon.

1819 Amer. Monthly Mag. & Crit. Rev. Jan. 207/1 The tenor is protracted on the dominant so as to produce an unresolved 7th.

1860 Musical World 29 Sept. 625/2 As the G on which F# resolves is required for the melody, it is a matter of taste not to anticipate the sound of it, and to keep the F# unresolved until then.

1946 R. Blesh Shining Trumpets (1949) x. 229 A rambling piece in unresolved Debussyesque harmonies.

1961 P. S. Hansen Introd. Twentieth Cent. Music i. 7 Chopin, with his splashes of nonharmonic chromatic tones, sometimes unresolved.

2004 M. W. Dean $30 Music School ii. 21 This part..crashes on a harmonically unresolved note at the end, leaving the listener feeling intentionally unsettled.

1808 Monthly Mag. Nov. 402 Its appearance is very much that of a simple unresolved Nebula.

1838 J. P. Nichol Archit. Heavens (1851) 122 Such a fluid..could not..be distinguished from unresolved clusters of stars, either by the nature of its light, or the simple fact of its irresolvability.

1850 J. P. Nichol Archit. Heavens 54 The cluster in Hercules..never appeared devoid of unresolved light about its central regions.

1936 Science 6 Nov. 421/2 Full account has been taken of the direct light of unresolved faint stars in the Milky Way.

1993 D. E. Wells in D. Barceló Environm. Anal. (1996) iv. 127 The sample is chromatographed on this column to a point just prior to the elution of the unresolved peaks.

2009 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 11 June 28/1 Painted with pigments chosen by assistants, de Kooning's increasingly vacant agglomerations of unresolved squiggles were touted by opportunistic dealers.

1920 Coterie Autumn 64 A blue haze of shadowy hopes and unresolved desires cannot be called a future.

1925 G. Barnes & S. E. Jelliffe tr. C. von Monakow Emotions, Morality & Brain vi. 82 Psychoanalysts..tell us..that the affects or conflicts once released in connection with insults to our ‘most important life interests’ regress into a consequent latent state in the central nervous system in the sense of unresolved ‘tensions’, if they do not find a rational, that is, harmonic discharge.

1959 Brit. Jrnl. Sociol. 10 43 If the obstacle is left, it will remain as a source of unresolved tension, a nagging sore.

1987 J. Diski Rainforest vii. 82 Dr Taylor suggests with great delicacy that there is something unresolved in me.

2001 myBUSINESS July 29/1 Where most family firms trip up is in simply failing to plan for succession, or letting unresolved family discord confuse the issue.

2012 R. K. Rittgers Reformation of Suffering x. 238 This physical illness, coupled with the strain of unresolved grief, gave rise to spiritual despondency.

1609 S. Grahame Anat. Humors f. 60 The vnresolved, who lives in all liberty of pleasure, environed with all worldly contentment.

1643 Remonstrans Redivivus 3 To the end the best men..may be established in the truth, and the unresolved our brethren and neighbours..may be informed and we hope reclaimed.

1659 F. Osborne Deductions Hist. Essex in Misc. Sundry Ess. 220 Nor did the readiness of the Scots to Arm,..portend less in the ears of the unresolved, then a possibility of Conquest.

1763 G. Ridley Life Dr. N. Ridley viii. 630 His retracting would have influenced the greater number of the unresolved, and silenced the more confirmed.

1868 D. March Night Scenes in Bible vii. 161 [He] who makes that resolution the starting-point of his career..is relieved from a thousand doubts and uncertainties and conflicts that harass the unresolved and uncommitted.

2000 A. Goodwyn Eng. in Digital Age i. 8 A third of teachers in the study were unsure about the future; they are the ‘unresolved’.