ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. Not accompanied or attended. Also const. by, or with.
1545. Raynalde, Byrth Mankynde, 21 b. God … neuer createth no speciall pleasure vnaccompanyed with some sorowe.
a. 1600. Hooker, Eccl. Pol., VII. xxiv. § 18. The travels and crosses wherewith prelacy is never unaccompanied.
1605. Shaks., Macb., I. iv. 40. Our eldest, Malcolme, whom we name hereafter, The Prince of Cumberland which Honor must Not vnaccompanied, inuest him onely.
1709. Tatler, No. 120, ¶ 3. As I was single and unaccompanied, I was not permitted to enter the temple.
1763. J. Brown, Poetry & Music, v. 47. The Melody of Instruments, unaccompany’d by Dance or Song.
1800. Asiat. Ann. Reg., Misc. Tr., 84/2. Persic odes, unaccompanied with translations.
1827. Pollok, Course T., X. 351. Thou goest … Not unaccompanied; all these, my saints, Go with Thee.
1891. Farrar, Darkn. & Dawn, liii. Unaccompanied by Philetus, the actor went to the meeting.
2. Lacking instrumental accompaniment.
1818. Busby, Gram. Mus., 475. In Unaccompanied Recitative, the modulation has little or no dependence.
1876. Stainer & Barrett, Dict. Mus. Terms, s.v. Anthem, Those choirs in which an unaccompanied service is sometimes performed.
