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unperˈceived, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Without being perceived or noticed. Occas. const. by or of.
c1350Will. Palerne 1676 Þat noþer clerk nor kniȝt..Schal passe vnperceyued & pertiliche of-souȝt. c1400Destr. Troy 8657 Achilles grippit a gret speire,..Vnpersayuit of the prince prikit hym to. 1533More Apol. iii. Wks. 848/1 They would..haue their false folies passe and repasse all vnperceiued. 1593Shakes. Lucr. 1010 The crow may..unperceiv'd fly with the filth away. 1667Milton P.L. xi. 224 Hee alone..took his way, Not unperceav'd of Adam. 1725Pope Odyss. xxii. 194 Behind the felon unperceiv'd they past. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) III. 17 Unperceived of Harry, he displayed the bills to the company. 1834Tait's Mag. I. 189/2 The intrenchment being cast up unperceived, in the middle of the night. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 67 Chance words..which fall unperceived on the reader's mind.
2. Not perceived; unobserved.
c1500Three Kings' Sons 84 Departid this yonge gentil⁓man..so secretly that he was vnperceyued. 1581Mulcaster Positions xxxiii. 120 Galene also maketh the litle vnperceiued, or for the smallnesse contemned, to be mother of all illes. 1665Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. ix, Moisture..convey'd but by little and little.., and by unperceivd Passages, and yet.. able to impart Fertility. 1768Boswell Corsica p. xii, Even the succession of Chiefs has been unperceived. 1790Coleridge Progr. Vice 7 By unperceiv'd degrees she tempts to stray, Till far from Virtue's path she leads the feet away. 1842Is. Williams Baptistery 43 Time marks not Death with unperceived tread Steal on behind. 1898L. B. Walford Archdeacon ii. ii, St. Andrews was unperceived, and drew back..disconcerted.
Hence unperˈceivedly adv.
1633T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter ii. 18 That they may not too unperceivedly catch us, let me a little bare their hooke. 1663Boyle Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos. ii. App. 352 Sometimes in filtration, some of the thinner parts of the oyl have unperceivedly passed through the paper. 1713Derham Physico-Theol. iii. iv. 78 Descending (though unperceivedly) gently down..to the Sea. |