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unˈended, ppl. a. Now rare.
[un-1 8: cf. OE. unᵹeendod.]
1. Not made to end or stop; having no limit or bounds; continued, lasting, infinite.
c1250Gen. & Ex. 3518 For if ðu it ȝernes and ȝisse, ðu tines vn-ended blisce. 1340–70Alex. & Dind. 751 Bochours ben þei echon ȝour body to dismembre, & euerich pinchen his part þere paine is vnended. 1382Wyclif Job xxii. 5 For thi myche malice, and thi wickidnessis vnendid. c1400tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 84 Thes er tho þat out soght, and disputyd..of full, of voyde, of endyd, of vnendyd. 1522J. Vaus Rudiment. Gram. Bb ij b (Jam.), Infinitivo modo. On-endyt or determyt mode to nowmyr or persone. 1596Edw. III, ii. i. 139 Wherefore talkest thou of a period To that which craues vnended admiration?
2. Not brought to an end or conclusion; unfinished, incomplete.
1382Wyclif Wisd. iv. 5 Forsothe braunchis vnendid [1388 vnperfit] shul be to-broken. 1471Sc. Acts, Jas. III (1814) II 101/1 Al materis.. þat ar now opynit in þis present parliament & vnendit. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. (Rolls) II. 414 Rycht weill ȝe ken..Oure interpryiss wnendit is and done. 1591Sparry tr. Cattan's Geomancie 235 The sute shall be for unmoueable goods, and shall not last long unended. 1805Monthly Mag. XX. 43 It would probably have remained unended for a long time. 1935T. S. Eliot Murder in Cathedral i. 14 Meetings unended or endless At one place or another in France. |