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1. Not attended or waited upon; unaccompanied.
1603. Drayton, Bar. Wars, V. xxiv. Car’d for of none, nor look’d on, vnattended, Sadly returning, with a heauie Heart.
1667. Milton, P. L., VIII. 60. Forth she went; Nor unattended, for on her as Queen A pomp of winning Graces waited still.
1708. Pope, Lett. (1735), I. 66. What a Number have here drop’d off, and left the poor surviving seven unattended!
a. 1795. Philidor, Studies of Chess (1817), 36. The unattended king should advance to intercept the pawn.
1846. Mrs. Gore, Eng. Char. (1852), 60. It suited him to ride thither unattended.
1895. Swettenham, Malay Sk., 119. The Shabandar, unarmed and unattended, accompanied him.
b. Of horses, etc.: With no one in attendance.
1796. Coleridge, Destiny of Nations, 197. In the first entrance of the level road An unattended team!
1897. Daily News, 5 Oct., 6/3. When vehicles were left unattended the wheels should be chained.
2. Not attended or accompanied by or with some thing, circumstance, etc.
(a) 1687. Dryden, Hind & P., III. 607. Night came, but unattended with repose.
1768–74. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), II. 678. Every benefit … procured for any individual,… if unattended with bad consequences, is a profit made to the whole.
1787. W. Tickell, Acc. New Chym. Med. (title-page). Its specific virtue in … all coughs unattended with inflammation.
1837. Lytton, Athens, II. 4. It seldom happens that their renown in life was unattended with reverses equally signal.
1885. Manch. Exam., 6 Jan., 5/2. The collision was unattended with grave consequences.
(b) 1726. Pope, Odyss., XIX. 601. Unattended by sincere repose, The night assists my ever-wakeful woes.
1749. Fielding, Tom Jones, VIII. xi. I could have gladly embraced Death,… if it had offered itself to my Choice unattended by Shame.
1847. W. C. L. Martin, Ox, 11/1. Nor is the chase unattended by danger, for a wounded bison often turns on his assailant.
1884. Manch. Exam., 12 Sept., 5/3. The accident to the Fenella … was fortunately unattended by worse consequences.
3. Not attended to. (Also without prep.)
1729. Boyer, Dict. Royal, II. Unattended to, (disregarded) … negligé.
1791. Cowper, Retired Cat, 66. The sun descended, And puss remain’d still unattended.
1803. Edwin, III. ix. 150. No circumstance, however trivial, should be unattended to, from whence aid to our purpose may be derived.
1874. Ruskin, Fors Clav., IV. xxxvii. 4. I don’t suppose any man with a tongue in his head and zeal to use it was ever left so entirely unattended to.
