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unˈbooked, ppl. a. [un-1 8. Cf. Du. ongeboekt, G. ungebucht.] a. Not entered, registered, or recorded in a book. b. Not booklearned. Also, in recent use, ‘not pre-engaged by booking’.
1586Hooker Hist. Irel. in Holinshed II. 140/1 If any of them were found vnbooked and not registered, that he should be used as a fellon where so euer he was taken. 1859Masson Brit. Novelists iv. 220 There are rich fields of yet unbooked English life both in northern and in southern England. 1870Lowell Study Wind. 139 From the unbooked freshness of the Scottish peasant to the most far-sought phrase of literary curiosity. |