uneˈlected, ppl. a.
(un-1 8.)
| 1581 Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 20 In these my not old yeres.., hauing slipt into the title of a Poet, [I] am prouoked to say somthing vnto you in the defence of that my vnelected vocation. 1607 Shakes. Cor. ii. iii. 207 You should haue ta'ne th' aduantage of his Choller, And pass'd him vnelected. 1621 G. Sandys Ovid's Met. v. (1626) 97 Then, vnelected, rudely stept forth one, Who sung the Giants warre. 1836 E. Howard R. Reefer vi, The agonies of a new-born infant, under the torture of eternal fire, because it had died unelected. 1866 Sat. Rev. 8 Sept. 286/1 The privilege of..telling the unelected many [etc.]. |