unpresentedadj.n.

1523 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 42 All the trespassors..have byn permitted to passe unpresented.

1548 in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) II. App. Q. 57 We also..advertise you, that for no Favour ye go about to excuse or leave unpresented, those that..have offended.

1633 F. Quarles Feast for Wormes (rev. ed.) in Divine Poems 41 No crime unsifted, no sinne unpresented, Can lurke unseene.

1653 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. New Test. (Matt. v. 24) 26 (margin) Doe thou in that minute stop, and leave thy offering unpresented to the Priest.

c1732 in A. Thomson T. Boston of Ettrick (1895) 251 [He] was..scrupulous of anything new or unpresented, until he was thoroughly satisfied of its necessity.

1752 J. Louthian Form of Process (ed. 2) i. 185 You shall present no Person for Hatred, Malice, or Ill-will; nor leave any thing unpresented for Fear, Favour or Affection.

1864 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 25 Feb. I went back to New York unavoidably unpresented [to the President].

1895 W. M. F. Petrie Egypt. Tales 1st Ser. 1 It is strange that..the oldest literature..should yet have remained unpresented to English readers.

1897 W. C. Hazlitt Four Generations Lit. Family II. 221 The Queen and the Court,..their almost affecting solicitude for the health even of the Unpresented.

1919 Mich. Alumnus Oct. 23 Every housekeeper knows the element of surprise that may lurk in unpresented bills.

1994 L. C. Ford Liberal Educ. & Canon v. 182 [They] were finally able to convince the Missouri courts, through previously unpresented evidence, that their daughter had in fact expressed a desire not to continue living in a vegetative state.