unfilmedadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈfɪlmd/, U.S. /ˌənˈfɪlmd/ 1. Esp. of the eyes: not covered with a film; unclouded.
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1648 Mercurius Calidonius 23 He desired much, that your unfilmed eyes would now at last reflect upon what you had so long forgotten.
1775 W. Donaldson Agric. xix. 185 Your Majesty, looking upon the unflattering portrait of human nature, with the mental eye unfilmed.
1861 in R. G. White National Hymns 132 Thus with eye unfilmed we see All the charms of unity.
1895 Bristol Mercury 12 Aug. 5/6 What an unfilmed and elevated vision.
1918 N. Amer. Rev. June 921 He studies our aesthetic yield..with an eye unfilmed by conventional assumptions and spurious refinements.
1990 W. W. Kirk & S. J. Pikul in C. H. Baloun Corrosion in Nat. Waters 14 Small unfilmed areas become anodic to the much larger film covered surface.
2007 Analog Sci. Fiction & Fact Dec. 23/2 Only his eyes, black marbles, seemed unfilmed by age.
2. Not captured or recorded on film or (in later use) on videotape or in digital video; that has not been filmed (see film v. 3a).
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1913 New Brunswick (New Jersey) Times 4 Aug. 3/3 If only five [camera operators] had been there it is likely the wreck would have gone unfilmed from any advantageous point.
1948 Washington Post 5 Dec. vi. 3/3 Sidney Lanfield went to Arizona seeking a hitherto unfilmed location for RKO Radio's ‘Station West’.
1968 Times 30 Nov. 10/7 Marine plankton—invisible to the naked eye, and previously unfilmed.
1994 D. Spencer Passing Fancy Historian's Note p. xi The several extant unfilmed second-season teleplays.
2015 Herald Sun Sunday Style Mag. (Melbourne) (Nexis) 7 Dec. 15 A television adaptation of Stanley Kubrick's unfilmed screenplay on the life of Napoleon.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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