1. Not considered or thought of; not taken into consideration.
1587. Golding, De Mornay, xii. (1592), 167. Those that haue the distributing of goods and honors, are blamed for leauing them vnconsidered.
1611. Shaks., Wint. T., IV. iii. 26. A snapper-vp of vnconsidered trifles. Ibid. (1613), Hen. VIII., I. ii. 17. That you would … Not vnconsidered leaue your Honour, is the poynt Of my Petition.
1619. Donne, Serm., 139. This is the unexpected and unconsidered strangenesse of that day.
1729. Young, Merchant, Contents, The unconsidered benefits of liberty.
1826. Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. II. (1863), 454. The gift of some unconsidered trifles.
1856. Froude, Hist. Eng., I. 152. There was a third party in the country, unconsidered as yet, who [etc.].
1873. Proctor, Expanse Heav., viii. 86. A different opinion has long been entertained, owing to the details of the matter being left unconsidered.
2. Unaccompanied by, not done with, consideration or intention.
1876. T. Hardy, Ethelberta, xxv. She got up in an unconsidered and unusual impulse to seek relief.
1877. Mrs. Oliphant, Makers Flor., iii. 82. The cruel levity of these probably unconsidered jests.
