[UN-1 8. Cf. G. undatirt, Du. ongedateerd, Sw. odaterad.]
1. Not furnished or marked with a date; left without indication of date.
1570. Foxe, Acts & Mon. (ed. 2), 383/1. The certein tyme … I cannot searche out, neyther may it be [in] his epistles vndated, easly found out.
1658. Sir T. Browne, Hydriot., 24. The undated ruines of winds, flouds or earthquakes.
1710. H. Bedford, Vind. Ch. Eng., 177. The Latin Edition … is without Numbers, as well as his undated English one.
1824. Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. I. 159. The precious epistle was undated.
1856. Froude, Hist. Eng., I. 383. This letter is undated, but it was written … some time in the year 1532.
1886. Willis & Clark, Cambridge, II. 104. The Statement is undated. Ibid., 578. The list … is unfortunately undated.
2. Having no fixed date or limit; unending.
In quot. 1637 misused for ‘dated.’
1624. Quarles, Sion’s Elegies, II. xxii. Yet my vndated Euills, no time will minish, Though Yeers, and Months, though Daies and Howers, finish.
1637. D. Digges, Elegy, in Jonsonus Viribus (1635), 23. They did receive new life from you; Which shall not be undated, since thy breath Is able to immortall, after death.
3. Marked by no striking events.
1878. W. C. Smith, Hilda, 184. A wild, black night of tempest, such as men remember long In the dull undated life of a sleepy country town.
