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unˈnumbered, ppl. a.
[un-1 8, 5 b.]
1. Not numbered or reckoned up; uncounted.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xli. (Agnes) 224 Þe gret Ioy in hewine þat he saw, þat vnnovmerit mycht be. 1434Misyn Mending of Life 126 God truly is infinit of gretnes,..of swetnes vn-nowmbyrde. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxxxii. 249 Ther were take many knyȝtes and squyers and other men that were vnnombred. 1601Shakes. Jul. C. iii. i. 63 The Skies are painted with vnnumbred sparkes. 1656Cowley Davideis i. 749 Of Numbers too th' unnumbred wealth he showes. 1725Pope Odyss. ii. 212 Unnumber'd Birds glide thro' the aërial way. 1746Hervey Medit., Refl. on Flower-Garden 4 Prodigious Theatre!.. Where..Worlds un-numbered roll at large! 1844Kinglake Eothen xi, The fleas of all nations were there:—Asiatic hordes unnumbered. 1891Farrar Darkn. & Dawn lvi, To represent these un⁓numbered agonies as a festival of expiation.
2. Not included in an enumeration; not marked or provided with a number.
a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) H vij b, The .ix. Epiphanes of the Egiptiens was vnnoumbred and putte downe. 1654Ld. Hatton in Nicholas Papers (Camden) II. 147, I have receaved yours (unnumbred) of the 8th of Dec. a1667[see unmethodized 1]. 1816Wilson City of Plague ii. iii. 94 He for his lust, Unnumber'd lies. |