Undisclosed

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8.]

  1.  Not revealed or made known.

1571.  Golding, Calvin on Ps. vi. 6. The grace of God being yet undisclosed before the comming of Christ.

1648.  Hexham, II. Ongeopenbaert, Vnrevealed, Vndiscovered, or Vndisclosed.

1814.  Byron, Lara, I. xxiii. Whate’er there be between you undisclosed, This is no time [etc.].

1880.  Muirhead, trans. Ulpian, xxv. § 17, note. It is doubtful whether he could take under a secret and undisclosed trust.

  2.  Unhatched. (Cf. DISCLOSE v. 1 b.)

1581.  T. Howell, Deuises, H j. Counte not the byrds that vndisclosed bee.

1744.  Thomson, Summer, 260. The sweet task,… where to wrap In what soft beds their young, yet undisclos’d, Employs their tender care.

1817.  Kirby & Sp., Entomol., xxvii. II. 503. They place a guard over the cells of those [bees yet] undisclosed.