▪ I. ˈundated, a. Now rare or Obs.
[f. med.L. undāt-us, f. L. unda wave.]
1. Her. = undee a., wavy a.
| 1486 Bk. St. Albans, Her. 94 Palyt armys oftyme ar founde vndatyt, that is to say watteri. Ibid., They be called barrit vndatit for they be made of ij colouris metyng togedre by the maner of a floyng watre. 1572 J. Bossewell Armorie ii. 31 b, These pales may be borne vndated, whiche is as moche as to saye, as watered with a floode. |
2. Ornith. Having wavy markings.
Also Bot., waved (Webster, 1828, citing Lee).
| 1783 Latham Gen. Synop. Birds IV. 391 Undated L[ark]. Ibid. 477 Undated W[arbler]. |
▪ II. unˈdated, ppl. a.
[un-1 8. Cf. G. undatirt, Du. ongedateerd, Sw. odaterad.]
1. Not furnished or marked with a date; left without indication of date.
| 1570 Foxe Acts & Mon. (ed. 2) 383/1 The certein tyme..I cannot searche out, neyther may it be [in] his epistles vndated, easly found out. 1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriot. 24 The undated ruines of winds, flouds or earthquakes. 1710 H. Bedford Vind. Ch. Eng. 177 The Latin Edition..is without Numbers, as well as his undated English one. 1824 Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. 159 The precious epistle was undated. 1856 Froude Hist. Eng. I. 383 This letter is undated, but it was written..some time in the year 1532. 1886 Willis & Clark Cambridge II. 104 The Statement is undated. Ibid. 578 The list..is unfortunately undated. |
2. Having no fixed date or limit; unending.
In quot. 1637 misused for ‘dated’.
| 1624 Quarles Sion's Elegies ii. xxii, Yet my vndated Euills, no time will minish, Though Yeers, and Months, though Daies and Howers, finish. 1637 D. Digges Elegy in Jonsonus Viribus (1638) 23 They did receive new life from you; Which shall not be undated, since thy breath Is able to immortall, after death. |
3. Marked by no striking events.
| 1878 W. C. Smith Hilda 184 A wild, black night of tempest, such as men remember long In the dull undated life of a sleepy country town. |