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unbeˈgun, ppl. a.
Forms: 1 unbegunnen, 3 unnbigunnenn, 4 unbegunne (7 vn-), 6 vnbegon(ne, vnbegun, 7– unbegun.
[un-1 8 b. Cf. Du. onbegonnen, OHG. unbegunnen.]
1. That had no beginning; ever existent.
c1000ælfric Saints' Lives i. 16 An ælmihtiᵹ god æfre unbegunnen and unᵹeændod. c1200Ormin 18574 Forr eȝȝþerr iss wiþþutenn ord, & æfre all unnbigunnenn. 1390Gower Conf. III. 275 The myhti god, which unbegunne Stant of himself. 1610J. Healey St. Aug. Citie of God xii. xvii. 458 Hee needed none of these creatures,..hauing continued..blessed without them, from all vn-begunne eternity. a1680Charnock Attrib. God (1834) I. 375 We were nothing from an unbegun eternity. 1872Liddon Elem. Relig. ii. 79 That unbegun, unending, self-existent Life; that boundless Intelligence,..what is He, our God, to us?
2. Not yet begun; not commenced.
1562W. Wightman Ep. Ded., in Phaer æneid (ed. 2) 1 He..promised to vse all hys possible diligence for the finishing of the other three bookes then vtterly vnbegonne. a1568R. Ascham Scholem. ii. (Arb.) 159 The other part of the head beyng hidden, the bodie and the rest of the members vnbegon. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lvi. §5 A worke vn⁓begun is in the Artificer which afterward bringeth it into effect. 1706Watts Horæ Lyr. iii. 266 Nations unborn, and ages unbegun. 1738Gentl. Mag. VIII. 485/2 Therefore, tho' more than half my days are done, My days of life are un-begun. 1812Monthly Mag. XXXIV. 14 We prevent what is unbegun, we hinder what is unfinished. 1868Mrs. Whitney P. Strong xvi, The smoothness of that which is unbegun. |