ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. Not observed with festivities or in some formal manner; not specially honored or extolled.
1660. Milton, Free Commw., Wks. 1851, V. 425. Nor was … our Victory … unprais’d or uncelebrated in a written Monument. Ibid. (1667), P. L., VII. 253. Thus was the first Day Eev’n and Morn: Nor past uncelebrated, nor unsung By the Celestial Quires.
1736. Pope, Lett. to Swift, 30 Dec. I have seen a royal birth-day uncelebrated but by one vile Ode, and one hired bonfire.
1781. Mrs. Grant, Lett. fr. Mount. (1813), II. xiv. 75. The freedom, ease, and gaiety, which has not passed uncelebrated or unsung.
a. 1843. Southey, Comm.-pl. Bk., Ser. II. (1849), 138. Christmas uncelebrated there.
2. Not famed or renowned.
1740. Cibber, Apol. (1756), II. 4. There came over from Dublin Theatre two uncelebrated actors to pick up a few pence among us.
1782. V. Knox, Ess., lxvi. I. 288. Such is that uncelebrated virtue, common and moral honesty.
1840. Willis, Loiterings of Trav., III. 38. Such frowning amid broken rocks and smiling through smooth valleys, you would never believe could go on, in this out-of-door’s world, unvisited and uncelebrated.
