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uniˈmagined, ppl. a. and adv.
(un-1 8.)
a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VI, 103 A thyng discended from heauen, of theim vnsought, vnimagined and not deuised. 1649Lovelace Poems (1904) 69 The unimagin'd Woes..of the Hierarchy. 1736Butler Anal. i. i. 20 A latent and..an unimagined unknown power of perceiving sensible objects. 1754Francis Constantine iii. 36 What uninvented, unimagin'd Tortures Have I to dread? 1846Trench Mirac. xvii. 276 His walking over the sea must have been altogether unimagined by them. 1884Church Bacon viii. 187 That hitherto unimagined empire of man over the powers and forces that encompassed him.
†b. adv. Unexpectedly. Obs.—1
1614W. B. Philosopher's Banquet (ed. 2) 254 When, vnimagined, the wench demaunded of him,..whether he [etc.]. |