unˈnamed, ppl. a.
[un-1 8. Cf. OFris. unnamed, onnamd, MDu. ongenaemt (Du. -naamd).]
1. Not mentioned or specified by name.
| 1509 Barclay Ship of Folys 162 They shall vnnamyd my shyppis haue in cure. 1526 R. Whitford Martiloge (1893) 65 A woman vnnamed, with her two chylder twyndles. 1599 Dallam in Early Voy. Levant (Hakl. Soc.) 81, I have not time now to wryte them, but of force muste leave them un-named untill a time of better Leasur. c 1620 Fletcher False One ii. ii, Cæsar's angry, And our design to please him lost and perish'd; Be glad thou art unnam'd. 1667 Milton P.L. x. 595 Stil at Hels dark threshold to have sate watch, Unnam'd, undreaded. 1728 Ramsay Archers diverting themselves 136 Dear nymphs unnam'd, lay not the blame On us. 1798 S. & Ht. Lee Canterb. T. II. 86 [She] left unnamed, and unprovided for, the young woman she had raised so far above her condition. 1836 [Mrs. Maitland] Lett. fr. Madras (1843) 4 A number of hitherto un⁓named gentlemen, who sit down to eat and drink. 1866 Meredith Vittoria xlv, Throwing the burden..on some unnamed third person. |
2. Not provided with a name; nameless.
| 1611 Donne Anat. World 35 As a child kept from the font, thou unnam'd had'st laid. 1667 Milton P.L. xii. 140 From Hamath Northward to the Desert South (Things by thir names I call, though yet unnam'd). 1848 Bailey Festus (ed. 3) 219 All terms are relative expressing bound, But Deity, interminable being, Hath ever therefore been unnamed. 1868 Morris Earthly Par. I. i. 338 Robe..Inwrought with flowers of unnamed colours bright. 1876 Smiles Sc. Natur. x. 202 Among the plants, were a great number unnamed. |
| absol. 1840 Carlyle Heroes i. ¶13 The Highest Being reveals himself in man. This body, these faculties, this life of ours, is it not all as a vesture for that Unnamed? |
b. unnamed bone, the innominate bone (
innominate a. 3).
| 1845 Encycl. Metrop. VII. 329/1 [The sides] of the Hip⁓girdle [are]..formed..by the pair of Unnamed..bones, each consisting..of three pieces whilst the bird is young, but becoming consolidated early. Ibid., Of the Unnamed bone. |