unrelatedadj.

1611 T. Coryate Odcombian Banquet sig. K4 On seuerall subiects thou hast grated, Of men, of bookes yet vnrelated.

1684 L. Di Capua Uncertainty of Art of Physick 36 I will only not leave unrelated, how it was anciently reported, that Acron of Agrigentum once freed the City of Athens from a mortal Plague.

1733 J. Court tr. F. Josephus Jewish War i. in Wks. 521/1 To transmit accounts of facts which had been left unrelated..was esteemed a very worthy act.

1796 F. Burney Camilla V. x. xiii. 525 A reciprocal confidence that left nothing untold, not an action unrelated.

1838 Eclectic Rev. Mar. 322 More importance is attached by us to the history of many ancient actions than arose immediately out of the actions themselves, or than could have arisen, had they been unrelated.

1918 F. M. O'Brien Story of Sun iv. 117 His second hoax, ‘The Lost Manuscript of Mungo Park’,..purported to tell hitherto unrelated adventures of the Scottish explorer.

2004 M. H. Dunkelman Brothers One & All xi. 275 Aside from brief accounts..the story of the 154th New York went unrelated.

1651 Animadversions in C. Love Case 54 [They] are very competent Judges in the Cause, being altogether unrelated unto the persons or Nations.

1668 H. More Divine Dialogues i. xxxv. 156 If they were so unrelated indeed in the..apprehension of them,..then I confess the Inference might be sound.

1701 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World I. ii. 92 For things to be only conditionally related..is really to be unrelated to, and separated from one another.

1785 E. Burke Corr. (1844) III. 42 Detached and unrelated offences.

1817 R. Jameson tr. G. Cuvier Ess. Theory Earth (ed. 3) p. vii Petrifactions are no longer viewed..as things isolated and unrelated to the rocks.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. i. 6 A theory..which..apparently referred a great number of unrelated phenomena to a common cause.

1938 Oxf. Compan. Music 590/1 Beethoven.., on occasion, leapt, with little notice to the listener, into unrelated keys.

1999 Times 24 Sept. 32/6 The company said the changes were unrelated to the recent cost-cutting measures.

2011 Fortean Times Mar. 26/2 Ufologists can always find a way to join the dots between unrelated events to create a new picture.

1657 E. Reyner Considerations concerning Marriage iv. 55 As if we were single persons, unrelated to any man or woman by Mariage.

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) London 207 But let others unrelated unto him write his Character.

a1677 I. Barrow Wks. (1686) III. 36 'Tis not the example..of a stranger, of one indifferent, or unrelated to us.

1706 D. Defoe Jure Divino x. 7 Of foreign Breed, of unrelated Race,..A spurious Birth of intermingl'd Blood.

a1752 W. Warburton Serm. in Wks. (1788) V. 79 They..despised the rest of the sons of Adam, who..were deemed to be naturally unrelated to them.

1827 High Life I. v. 69 Miss M'Dougal, unrelated to either, participated from long acquaintance with each in the pleasure felt by her friend.

1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity II. 218 Seven emperors..for the most part entirely unrelated to one another.

1912 Green Bk. Mag. Nov. 772/1 Another [familiar type] is Lionel Roper, a kind of unrelated uncle to Lily.

1988 S. M. Dornbusch & M. H. Strober Feminism, Children, & New Families i. 5 Nonfamily households, made up of unrelated or single people, still represent only about a quarter of all households.

2002 Independent 9 Oct. 13/3 Under Iran's strict Islamic laws, unrelated men and women are not allowed to dance together.

1861 Zoologist 19 7585 Adaptive qualities..are not such as naturalists find most useful in classification; and this, Mr. Darwin says, is because they have been similarly influenced in unrelated families.

1910 Bull. Bureau Plant Industry, U.S. Dept. Agric. No. 195. 37 Wintergreen and sweet birch are entirely unrelated plants.

1985 D. C. F. Rentz Monogr. Tettigoniidae of Austral. I. 16 It seems clear that the Australian Tettigoniinae are unrelated to those from Africa.

2007 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 19 July 4/4 In early times, horizontal gene transfer, the sharing of genes between unrelated species, was prevalent.

1886 J. W. Mendenhall Plato & Paul 211 As infinity transcends the finite, the finite may find it impossible completely to know the infinite, or things that are exclusively and unrelatedly infinite.

1905 Kindergarten Mag. Apr. 468 This work should by no means be ‘dragged in’ arbitrarily or unrelatedly, or merely introduced for the sake of an experiment.

2008 J. O'Neill Netherland 42 I am from The Hague, where Dutch bourgeois snobbishness and Dutch cricket are, not unrelatedly, most concentrated.

1681 J. Howe Of Charity 51 Or will you, here, again say, your unrelatedness to their party, makes you unconcern'd?

1854 J. J. Sylvester Coll. Math. Papers (1908) II. 32 The number of singularities (including absolute unrelatedness and entire coincidence within the purview of the term).

1998 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 3 May ii. 16/1 The unbelievable thing is the unrelatedness of the ground rhythm to the rhythms layered above it.