unˈreckoned, ppl. a.
(un-1 8, 8 c. Cf. MDu. ongerekent (Du. ongerekend), MHG. ungerechent (G. ungerechnet), ON. {uacu}reiknaðr, Sw. oräknad, Da. uregnet.)
| c 1340 Hampole Pr. Consc. 2462 Na syn þan unrekend sal be. c 1450 Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 166 Suche a carpynge is unknowe, Onrekenyd in my regne. 1464 Mann. & Househ. Exp. (Roxb.) 161 Afftyr the same rekenynge Keverstonys men..askyd more wiche was onrekenyd as thei seyd, vj. s. viij. d. 1551 Bp. Gardiner On Sacram. 75 The foure substaunces, whiche this auctor..numbreth of Christ, might haue bene left vnrekened by tale. 1599 Daniel Musoph. (1601) A iiij, Who doth touch the tenour of that vaine, Is held but vain; and his vnreckned pen The title but of Leuitie doth gaine. 1628 Gaule Pract. The. (1629) 100 These were his Names, Many and Great; yet is Jesvs (the Name aboue all names) vnreckoned. 1690 Dryden Don Sebastian iii. i, Add that falshood To a long Bill that yet remains unreckon'd. 1875 Lowell Under Old Elm 135 The casual gleanings of unreckoned years. 1879 Baring-Gould Germany II. 283 The theory may be wrong,..the calculation put out by unreckoned elements. |
b. With for.
| 1680 C. Nesse Ch. Hist. 452 God left not his cruelty long unreckon'd for. 1894 M. Dyan Man's Keeping (1899) 47 This unreckoned-for encounter..was a bitter pang. |