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undeˈscribed, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not described; not expressed in words.
1575T. Cartwright 2nd Reply to Whitgift 446 As the Lord set forth the one, so he left nothing vndescribed in the other. 1600Pory Leo's Africa 11 A description of places vndescribed by John Leo. 1697Collier Ess. Mor. Subj. i. (1703) 32, I had rather leave it undescribed, than be forced to give it its proper character. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. iii. ii. i, It is a change such as History must beg her readers to imagine, undescribed. 1851Ruskin Stones Ven. (1874) I. Pref. p. vi, The reader will find..that the buildings..have been hitherto undescribed.
b. spec. Not yet scientifically described. (Cf. nondescript a. 1.)
c1680Enquiries 2/1 Have you any undescribed Plants, or others of special note? 1768Pennant in Phil. Trans. LVIII. 94 We believe this species to have been undescribed. 1817Kirby & Sp. Entomol. xxi. II. 221 Two or three Brazilian species in my cabinet, that seem undescribed. 1890Science-Gossip XXVI. 76/2 A very beautiful species of Metopidia, which I believe to be undescribed.
2. Not marked off or delineated.
1852Bailey Festus (ed. 5) 475 The Atlantean axis of the world And all the undescribed circumference. |