unnotedadj.

1565 A. Golding tr. Caesar Martiall Exploytes in Gallia iii. f. 74^v Bycause the thing was done in y^e sight of Cesar and all his army, insomuch that no dede..could escape vnnoted [L. ut nullum paulo fortius factum latere posset].

1600 J. Bodenham Bel-vedére 59 Gnats are vnnoted where-soe're they flie, But Eagles gaz'd vpon with euery eye.

a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger False One i. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Qq^v/1 I'le be admitted for a wanton tale To some most private Cabinets, when your Priest-hood..Shall waite without unnoted.

1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. i. 177 Where the free guest, unnoted, might relate If haply conscious, of his Father's fate.

1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the Second 20 Unnoted, [conscience] notes each Moment misapply'd.

1814 Ld. Byron Corsair i. xvii. 30 Secure—unnoted—Conrad's prow pass'd by.

1894 M. Dyan All in Man's Keeping (1899) 135 Unnoted by him, that vision had faded much of late.

1917 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 22 Aug. 8/4 Billy Sunday by turning handsprings before the altar and spitting at the devil across the footlights makes the headlines, while thousands who follow Christ in humble service go un-noted.

1990 C. Paglia Sexual Personae xiv. 378 One of the great Romantic metaphors, the Aeolian lyre, has a latent sexual ambiguity unnoted by major criticism.

1566 T. Heskyns Parl. Chryste ii. vii. f. cii Neither ys this to be ouerpassed, and left vnnoted to the reader, that thys authour by a plain negatiue, denieth the false affirmatiue of the Aduersarie.

?1592 Trag. Solyman & Perseda i. ii. 73 Sweet Perseda, vnnoted though I be, Thy beauty yet shall make me knowne ere night.

1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis ix. 191 Phæstus..fostered One, Lydgus, of vn-noted parents bred.

1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey II. v. 402 Un-wept, un-noted, and for ever dead!

1789 R. Burns Let. 16 Dec. (2001) I. 461 Only to add so many units more to the unnoted croud that followed their Leaders.

1860 C. J. Ellicott Hist. Lect. Life Our Lord ii. 67 The devout..Simeon..saw perchance before him no more than two unnoted worshippers.

1878 F. W. H. Myers in Fortnightly Rev. May 728 It has run its fair course unnoted, and in silence passed away.

1999 S. M. Zimmerman Romanticism, Lyricism, & Hist. v. 155 This opening establishes as a primary purpose in the poem the task of registering the unrecognized worth of this forgotten place by an equally unnoted figure.

1867 G. Meredith Vittoria II. xxiv. 93 A song of three notes and a sort of unnoted clanging chorus.

1998 K. Levy Gregorian Chant & Carolingians x. 244 The possibility of two different kinds of memory operating with unnoted plainchant.