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† ignote, a. and n. Obs.
[ad. L. ignōtus, f. i-2, in- not + gnōtus, nōtus known. Cf. It., Sp. ignoto.]
A. adj. Unknown.
1623Cockeram, Ignote, vnknowne. 1633Cowley Poet. Bloss., A Vote, Th' ignote are better than ill known. 1639G. Daniel Ecclus. xlii. 60 Things secret, and Ignote. 1663Flagellum, or O. Cromwell (1672) 137 Persons..of such mean and ignote extractions. a1697Aubrey Lives, Hobbes (1898) I. 366 They were both ignote to foreigners.
B. n. A person unknown.
1639G. Daniel Ecclus. ix. 33 Leave not a proved freind; for an Ignote Comes but at hazard. a1670Hacket Abp. Williams i. (1692) 162 In a letter that an ignote wrote. Ibid. ii. 144 Such Ignotes were not courted, but pass'd over. |