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unˈplaced, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not assigned to, or set in, a definite place.
1512Northumbld. Househ. Bk. (1770) 423 The Steward and Chaplaine must sit down in the Hall, and call unto them the Gentlemen if there be any unplaced above. 1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. i. 529 Th' unplac'd Climates of that deep disorder. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 77 Augustus gift unplaced lay, none would it undertake. 1849G. R. Gliddon Otia ægyptiaca 39 My own List of Unplaced Kings..who preceded the xviiith. Dynasty. 1861Hulme tr. Moquin-Tandon i. v. 34 Languages either unplaced or Indo-European (so called).
b. Racing. (See place v. 5 d.)
1881Racing Analysis I. 366 Aeronaut..also ran unplaced at 135 and 196. 1883Sat. Rev. 24 Nov. 665/2 Last year,..Hackness started first favourite for the Liverpool Cup, and was unplaced.
2. Not appointed to a place or office.
1558in Strype Ann. Ref. (1709) I. App. iv. 4 All such as governed..and now remain unplaced and uncalled to Credit. 1575Gascoigne Glasse of Govt. i. ii, It is not like that he should have returned from thence unplaced. 1732,1771[see unpensioned]. 1823J. Wilson Marg. Lyndsay xliii. 345 Young preachers, yet unplaced. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. ii. I. 241 The other fifteen were to be unplaced noble⁓men and gentlemen of ample fortune. |
