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unˈdreamed, -ˈdreamt, ppl. a.
[un-1 8, 8 c.]
1. Not apprehended (even) in a dream or dreams; not imagined or thought of.
1611Shakes. Wint. T. iv. iv. 578 A Course more promising, Then a wild dedication of your selues To vnpath'd Waters, vndream'd Shores. 1827Moore Alciphron iii. 278 A light Leading to undreamt happiness. 1880E. White Cert. Relig. 48 That Voice which..lifted up men's thoughts to heights undreamed before.
2. With of. (Cf. dream v.2 1.)
1636E. Pagitt Christianography (ed. 2) ii. 40 Ecclesiasticks were unexempted, and deposing of Kings was then undreamed of. 1674Boyle Excell. Theol. ii. v. 213 Even practical inventions..by undreamed of discoveries may be brought to lose the general reputation they had. 1802Coleridge Dejection v, A new Earth.., Undreamt of by the sensual and the proud. 1860Ruskin Unto this Last ii. (1896) 65 In some far-away and yet undreamt-of hour. 1880Geo. Eliot in Cross Life (1885) III. 406 The great, once undreamed-of change in my life. |