ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. a. Not conceived or thought of; unimagined.
1434. Misyn, Mending of Life, 126. God truly is infinit…, of all wroght kyndes vnconsauyd.
1591. Sylvester, Du Bartas, I. iii. 949. Renowned Load-stone, which on Iron acts,… Attracts it strangely … With unknow’n cords, with unconceived hooks.
1598. Bp. Hall, Sat., Postscr. Sith … that is almost unseene which is unconceived.
1648. J. Beaumont, Psyche, XIV. lxii. Judas who neer this place did frying lie With unconceived anguish gnash’d his teeth.
1710. Berkeley, Princ. Hum. Knowl., § 23. It is necessary that you conceive them existing unconceived or unthought of.
1742. Young, Nt. Th., I. 111. They live! they greatly live a life on earth Unkindl’d, unconceiv’d.
1838. Poe, A. G. Pym, Wks. 1864, IV. 89. Events … of the most unconceived and unconceivable character.
1871. Morley, Vauvenargues, in Crit. Misc., Ser. I. (1878), 9. The Encyclopædia was yet unconceived.
† b. Uncomprehended; not understood. Obs.–1
1619. Purchas, Microcosmus, lxix. 689. In the meane while, sometimes without dores, on Horse-backe, they heare their vn-conceiued Liturgie.
2. Not brought into being; not properly formed or developed.
1599. Marston, Sco. Villanie, III. ix. G viij b. Whilst I … abuse chast virgin time, Deflowring her with unconceiued rime.
1848. Bailey, Festus (ed. 3), 205. All the forms of plant, fish, brute, bird, insect, and the lives Insensible and unconceived.
