unretainedadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnrᵻˈteɪnd/, U.S. /ˌənrəˈteɪnd/ Not retained (in various senses).
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > faulty recollection > [adjective] > forgotten
out of memorya1275
of minda1325
out of mindc1325
forlainc1330
unrememberedc1425
oblivious1535
forgotten1600
unretained1666
unrecollected1733
unrecalled1742
buried1806
evanished1829
unmemoried1829
unrevived1877
spark out1882
1666 A. Brome et al. tr. Horace Poems 272 If there be a Law-suit great or small, That side that's rich, and has no childe at all Be for, though unretain'd.
1794 W. Peckitt Wonderful Love God to Men 108 The united life of the Body begins to dissolve; and the unretained part of the Espirit therein to separate.
1822 S. T. Coleridge Lett. (1895) 720 The taste for unconnected, and for that reason unretained single thoughts.
1893 W. Fream Youatt's Compl. Grazier (ed. 13) xi. i. 1000 Most of the unretained nitrogen and all the unretained mineral matters are found in the urine and fæces.
1922 J. Moody Moody's Anal. Investm. 1233/2 Settlers on included and excluded, retained and unretained areas agree to withdraw all claims for damages.
2010 Securities Class Action Reporter (Nexis) 15 May 8 The plaintiffs cannot compel BoA to act as an unretained expert on the value of Countrywide's assets.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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adj.1666