a. (UN-1 7.)
1554. Knox, Faythfull Admon., F 8 b. To obeye that whych God commaundeth be it neuer so harde, so vnapparent or contrarie to their affeccions.
1614. Latham, Falconry (1633), 102. For the liuer or the disease thereof, is so secret and vnapparant, that it is neuer mistrusted nor thought of.
1645. Milton, Tetrach., Wks. 1851, IV. 193. Bitter actions of despight too suttle and too unapparent for Law to deal with. Ibid. (1667), P. L., VII. 103. He heares the rising Birth Of Nature from the unapparent Deep.
1725. Pope, Odyss., II. 152. On foreign shores Ulysses treads, Or glides a ghost with unapparent shades.
1755. Young, Centaur, i. Wks. 1757, IV. 129. A fire elemental is diffused through all nature, though unapparent in most parts of our globe.
1816. Shelley, Dæmon, I. 42. The dark blue orbs that burn below With unapparent fire.
1890. Hosmer, Anglo-Sax. Freedom, 129. Nowhere, probably, was the popular moot utterly unapparent.
absol. 1821. Shelley, Adonais, xlv. The inheritors of unfulfilled renown Rose from their thrones, built beyond mortal thought, Far in the Unapparent.
Hence Unapparently adv.
1599. Sandys, Europæ Spec. (1632), 94. To avoid the contagion of the disease or seducement by the dangerously and unapparently diseased.