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unˈmeant, ppl. a.
[un-1 8 b.]
Not meant or intended.
a1634Chapman Revenge for Honour v. ii, Howere you're pleas'd to mock me..with these impertinent, unmeant discourses, I cannot..give them the least credit. 1697Dryden æneis x. 561 The flying Spear was after Ilus sent, But Rhœtus hapen'd on a Death unmeant. 1738G. Lillo Marina ii. i, I who cou'd not bear The unmeant rivalship of sweet Marina. 1820Shelley Prometh. Unb. iii. iv. 151 That..hollow talk Which makes the heart..question that unmeant hypocrisy. 1891E. Kinglake Australian at Home 71 It is the short sighted gentleman..on whom the ball finds its unmeant mark as a rule.
b. Const. by and with complement.
c1700Congreve To Cynthia Wks. 1730 III. 291 Curse on that Word so ready to be spoke, For through my Lips, unmeant by me, it broke. 1745Young Nt. Th. viii. 682 Can man..strike out A self-wrought happiness unmeant by him Who made us? 1848Bailey Festus (ed. 3) 211 These mysteries Unmeant by Heaven to be cleared up on earth. |