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unˈsent, ppl. a.
Also 8 Sc. unsenn.
[un-1 8 b and 8 c. Cf. ON. úsent (Da. usendt).]
1. Not sent for, unsummoned. (Cf. b.)
c1530Crt. of Love 174 Of your free will ye should have come unsent. 1717Ramsay Elegy Lucky Wood ii, Death, wha came unsenn To Lucky Wood.
b. With for expressed.
1501Plumpton Corr. (Camden) 157 If I wold come up unsent for. 1598Dallington Meth. Trav. X 3 b, They take one of a suddaine, comming vnlooked for and vnsent for. a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 298 Herod, unsent for, went to visit him. 1673Wycherley Gentl. Dancing-Master v, We Fiddlers, Sir, often come unsent for. 1717De Foe Mem. Ch. Scot. ii. 36 But Mr. Andrew Melvin..went unsent for. 1753Richardson Grandison (1781) IV. xiv. 104 That no third person, unsent for, can be welcome.
2. Not sent or dispatched.
In recent use esp. of letters or telegrams.
c1550Crowley Inform. & Petit. iv b, The same Spirite..wytnesseth wyth my conscience that I renne not vnsent. c1586Sidney Arcadia i. vi, He armed himselfe, and those few of his servants he had left unsent. 1608Dod & Cleaver Expos. Prov. xi–xii. 122 That we goe not unsent. 1647Jer. Taylor Lib. Proph. vi. 124 More able men may be unsent then sent. 1841Fraser's Mag. Jan. 111/2 Ye came na here unsent, and ye maun perform your errand. 1855Kingsley Westw. Ho! xxvii, Her strange affection for the English was not unsent by Heaven.
b. With advs. or preps.
1549Paget in Froude Hist. Eng. (1860) V. 182 Send for all the council that be remaining unsent abroad. 1606Bp. Hall Heaven upon Earth xiii. Wks. (1625) 83 Thy heauenly Physician,..vnsent to, sends thee..a soueraigne remedie. 1656in Picton L'pool Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 176 Whylst they stay at home unsent away. |
