unproducedadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnprəˈdjuːst/, /(ˌ)ʌnprəˈdʒuːst/, U.S. /ˌənprəˈd(j)ust/ 1. Not created or made. Chiefly Philosophy: existing without having been made; = unmade adj. 2.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > [adjective] > existent or existing > self-existent > existing without having been made
unmadec1350
ungotten1435
unproduceda1513
unbegotten1532
ungenerate1546
uncreate1549
uncreated1549
unbegot1597
unprocreated1623
ingenerated1646
unprocreatea1649
ingenerate1656
improduced1662
ingenit1677
ungenerated1741
unborn1822
birthless1830
the world > existence and causation > creation > [adjective] > created or produced > not created
unformeda1325
unframed1548
uncreate1549
unhatched1601
uncreated1607
ungenerated1614
unproduced1678
a1513 J. Irland Meroure of Wyssdome (1965) II. 87 It is better and mar digne and excellent to be a substaunce and natur wnproducit na to haue bene maid and producit of nocht.
1674 R. Boyle About Excellency & Grounds Mech. Hypothesis 9 in Excellency Theol. For their sakes that would have matter to be unproduced.
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 234 The Intelligent Pagans..acknowledged only One..Vnproduced and Self-existent Deity.
1712 R. Blackmore Creation Pref. p. iv Those who believe an innate Idea of a Divine Being, unproduced by any Operation of the Mind.
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. iii. 19 The rules of justice are apprehended immutable and unproduced, because you cannot draw them directly from any object before you.
1838 W. J. Duane Narr. & Corr. conc. Removal of Deposites xvii. 169 Would it not be preposterous to say, that our grain, iron, timber, cotton..would remain unproduced, undeveloped, unsought, unused and unexchanged, without the aid of bank paper?
1909 Philos. Rev. 18 553 In his description of the properties of the atom he follows Epicurus, but he denies that it is eternal or unproduced.
1979 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 87 256 There is also assumed to be a latent demand for as yet unproduced goods.
2013 R. M. Gross in J. Diller & A. Kasher Models of God & Alternative Ultimate Realities x. 752 We experience Nirvana,..which is completely free, natural, and unproduced.
2. Mathematics. Of a straight line: not extended in length. Now rare.
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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > longitudinal extent > [adjective] > increasing in length > increased in length > not
unproduced1771
1771 Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 250 A new equation, all whose roots shall fall upon the line OT unproduced.
1882 G. M. Minchin Uniplanar Kinematics 83 Supposing that the lines..intersect each other at a point, O, in their unproduced lengths.
1959 Math. Teacher 52 151/2 By precisely the same reasoning one can ‘prove’ that the lines joining the vertices of a triangle to any three random points on the respective opposite (unproduced) sides are concurrent, which is obviously false.
3. Of a play, script, etc.: that has not (yet) been staged or performed. Also of a playwright, screenwriter, etc.: not having had works produced.
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1846 Eng. Gentleman 25 Apr. 259/2 It would manifestly be unfair in us to hazard an opinion whether Mr. Stephens' plays would succeed or not. We never heard a really satisfactory opinion upon any unproduced play.
1896 Dict. National Biogr. XLV. 219/1 Other plays, some of them even yet unproduced, were written for and purchased by Webster.
1910 World's Work June 13036/2 The greatest of all dramatists have begun by being unproduced.
1992 Atlantic Sept. 103/3 Screenwriters, even unproduced screenwriters, are puzzled by novelists.
2000 J. Levine Coen Brothers vii. 104 They could write a new screenplay, but they already had at least a couple of unproduced scripts still lying around.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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