unrehearsedadj.

c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 214 (MED) Groundis herof ben writun in þe book of preesthode or of preestis power..whiche groundis þerfore here ben left vnrehercid.

a1461 Turpines Story (2004) 8 In Spayne he conquerid .xxxj. citteis and townnes, whos names, for þey bethe hethen, hem [perh. read ben] vnrehersid.

a1525 ( Coventry Leet Bk. (1908) II. 378 All thees moo, whoos names be vnderwreton besyde many moo vnrehersyd.

1560 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique (new ed.) f. 76^v The holie mother Church willeth me to leaue nothing vnrehearsed.

1613 A. Sherley Relation Trav. Persia 92 A discourse proued true..by many examples which he would leaue unrehearsed.

1629 W. Mure True Crucifixe 670 Exposd to paine, to horrors vnrehearsed.

1705 G. Stanhope Paraphr. Epist. & Gospels I. 280 It is not to be conceived, much less to be told, how many of our Lord's Actions are still left unrehearsed.

1792 Triumph of Loyalty 23 When Orleans, Dumourier, Marát, Custine..Are quite forgotten, lost, and unrehears'd.

1827 R. Pollok Course of Time II. x. 225 New scenes of bliss..unrehearsed by mortal tongue.

1879 G. H. Rendall Emperor Julian viii. 201 Some vague charges have been left unrehearsed, besides those considered in the account of Julian's legislation.

1917 Reform Advocate 26 May 490/1 Pity, which fellow strugglers accentuate in their small offerings unseen and unrehearsed by public curiosity.

1999 O. Hargie et al. Communication in Managem. iv. 73 He or she attempts to keep the spotlight trained on his or her main object of veneration—themselves. Meanwhile, the real business of the meeting goes unrehearsed.

1789 G. Hardinge Let. Apr. in Misc. Wks. (1818) III. 404 I flew to the door and was in time for it, with a minuet step, not unpractised or unrehearsed in the Milbourne woods.

1845 E. Holmes Life Mozart 289 The unrehearsed overture was then commenced.

1875 C. L. Kenney Mem. M. W. Balfe 44 An alarm of fire through some unrehearsed effect in the incantation scene.

1911 F. A. Talbot New Garden of Canada xxiv. 284 If anything gives, ‘that's goin' to be an unrehearsed somersault into hell,’ as one of the sourdoughs aboard growled.

1960 Times 16 Mar. 14/6 Our performances were always unrehearsed.

2006 D. Myhill et al. Talking, Listening, Learning vii. 132 The majority of teacher talk in the classroom is unrehearsed in delivery even when content is planned.