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unˈacted, a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not acted or carried out in action; unperformed.
1593Shakes. Lucr. 527 The fault vnknowne, is as a thought vnacted. 1613Sherley Trav. Persia 52 To leaue no meanes vnacted which might both assure them more, and him selfe with them. a1688Jordan Muses Melody, To his disdainful Mistress 17 Must I For some offence unacted, or unknown, Be tortur'd thus? 1706[? Prior] Ep. after Battle of Ramillies 290 My sons lament, in distant dungeons thrown, Unacted crimes, and follies not their own. 1789W. Blake Marr. Heaven & Hell, Proverbs, Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires. 1825Scott Talism. xvii, I would buy with every jewel I have, that our fatal jest had remained unacted.
b. Const. on, upon.
1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. III. xxiv. 21 A mass of [units] lying together, unacted upon by a mechanical material agency. 1825T. Hook Sayings Ser. ii. Passion & Princ. iv, I wish you to peruse it alone, and unacted upon by any extraneous influence. 1857Miller Elem. Chem., Org. 67 The second portion remains unacted on in the liquid.
2. Not acted upon; unformed. rare—1.
1700W. Shippen in Rowe Amb. Step-Moth. iii. ii, When Matter yet unacted lay.
3. Not performed on the stage. Also absol. as n., those whose plays are not acted.
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