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▪ I. unˈread, v.
(un-2 3.)
1533More Debell. Salem Wks. 1025/1 Can I both gather vp al hys bookes & go hyde theim, & also make them that haue red them goe vnreade them againe, or forget what they haue redde? 1797Monthly Rev. XXIII. 511 Can his countrymen unread Freret, Boulanger, and Voltaire, or unlearn the sophisms which they have impressed?
▪ II. unˈread, ppl. a.
[un-1 8 b.]
1. Not read; unperused.
1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 63 [He] held the letter in his hand unred. a1553Udall Roister D. iii. ii, Ye a woman? and your letter so long vnredde. 1596Spenser F.Q. iv. xii. 2 Then blame me not, if I haue err'd in count Of Gods, of Nymphs, of riuers yet vnred. 1693Dryden's Juvenal vii. (1697) 173 His Muse had starv'd, had not a Piece unread, And by a Player bought, supply'd her Bread. 1728Pope Dunciad iii. 103 Her grey-hair'd Synods damning books unread. 1796F. Burney Camilla II. 389 She therefore determined that..she would..deliver the unread letter to Sir Hugh. 1838Lytton Leila i. ii, An open manuscript..lay unread before the Moor. 1879Froude Cæsar xxvii. 469 He burnt unread the correspondence of Pompey and Scipio.
2. Not instructed by reading. Also absol.
1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. i. iii. 24 The Wise and Foole, the Artist and vn-read,..seeme all affin'd, and kin. 1687Dryden Hind & P. iii. 409 And last, uncertain whose the narrower span, The clown unread, and half-read gentleman. a1743Savage To John Powell 47 To unread Squires, illiterately gay; Among the learn'd, as learned full as they. 1811Byron Hints fr. Hor. 237 Unread,..Fool'd, pillag'd, dunn'd, he wastes his term away. 1865St. James's Mag. Oct. 354 The Great Unread. 1884Graphic 4 Oct. 358/1 The Khedive himself is far from unlearned and unread.
b. Const. in (a matter or subject).
1602Warner Alb. Eng. ix. lii. 234 Such as be vnreade In that sweete Promise. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. 185 Not being wholly unread in the authors. 1816Coleridge Lay Serm. 314 A fact that none but the unread in history will deny. 1865Meredith R. Fleming viii, Algernon was unread in the hearts of women. |