单词 | unattended |
释义 | unattendedadj. 1. a. Not attended or waited upon; unaccompanied. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > solitude or solitariness > [adjective] onlyOE alonec1175 solitarya1340 lone1377 ledelessc1400 fellowless?c1425 savage1535 neighbourless1550 private1599 discompanied1601 unattended1603 disaccompanied1605 lonelya1616 marrowless?1635 companionless1644 unneighboured1657 unaccompanied1709 unescorted1774 uncompanioned1822 comradeless1891 society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [adjective] > attended upon > not unwaited1592 unattended1603 unministereda1744 1603 M. Drayton Barrons Wars v. xxiv. 106 Car'd for of none, vnlook'd on, vnattended, Sadly departing, with a heauy hart. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 60 Forth she went; Not unattended, for on her as Queen A pomp of winning Graces waited still. View more context for this quotation 1708 A. Pope Corr. 10 May (1956) I. 49 What a Number have here dropt off, and left the poor surviving Seven unattended! a1795 ‘A. D. Philidor’ Stud. Chess (1817) 36 The unattended king should advance to intercept the pawn. 1846 C. G. F. Gore Sketches Eng. Char. (1852) 60 It suited him to ride thither unattended. 1895 F. A. Swettenham Malay Sketches 119 The Shabandar, unarmed and unattended, accompanied him. b. Of horses, etc.: With no one in attendance. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > absence > [adjective] > with no one in attendance unattended1796 1796 S. T. Coleridge Destiny of Nations 197 In the first entrance of the level road An unattended team! 1897 Daily News 5 Oct. 6/3 When vehicles were left unattended the wheels should be chained. 2. Not attended or accompanied by or with some thing, circumstance, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > accompaniment > [adjective] > unaccompanied unaccompanied1545 discompanied1601 unattended1687 (a) (b)1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xix. 600 Unattended by sincere repose, The night assists my ever-wakeful woes.1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. viii. xi. 248 I could have gladly embraced Death,..if it had offered itself to my Choice unattended by Shame. View more context for this quotation1847 W. C. L. Martin Ox 11/1 Nor is the chase unattended by danger, for a wounded bison often turns on his assailant.1884 Manch. Examiner 12 Sept. 5/3 The accident to the Fenella..was fortunately unattended by worse consequences.1687 J. Dryden Hind & Panther iii. 107 Night came, but unattended with repose. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iv. 481 Every benefit..procured for any individual,..if unattended with bad consequences, is a profit made to the whole. 1787 W. Tickell Acc. New Chym. Med. (title page) Its specific virtue in..all coughs unattended with inflammation. 1837 E. Bulwer-Lytton Athens II. 4 It seldom happens that their renown in life was unattended with reverses equally signal. 1885 Manch. Examiner 6 Jan. 5/2 The collision was unattended with grave consequences. 3. Not attended to. (Also without prep.) ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [adjective] > careless or heedless > unheeded forgotten1429 unlooked1517 unrespecteda1586 unregarded1595 unrespect1602 unheeded1611 unthought1640 regardless1697 unattended1768 uncounted1783 untented1791 unrecked1808 1768 Boyer's Royal Dict. (rev. ed.) (at cited word) Unattended to, (disregarded)..negligé. 1791 W. Cowper Retirem. 66 The sun descended, And puss remain'd still unattended. 1803 Edwin III. ix. 150 No circumstance, however trivial, should be unattended to, from whence aid to our purpose may be derived. 1874 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera IV. xxxvii. 4 I don't suppose any man with a tongue in his head and zeal to use it was ever left so entirely unattended to. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1603 |
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