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  1.  Not apprehended (even) in a dream or dreams; not imagined or thought of.

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1611.  Shaks., Wint. T., IV. iv. 578. A Course more promising, Then a wild dedication of your selues To vnpath’d Waters, vndream’d Shores.

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1827.  Moore, Alciphron, iii. 278. A light Leading to undreamt happiness.

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1880.  E. White, Cert. Relig., 48. That Voice which … lifted up men’s thoughts to heights undreamed before.

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  2.  With of. (Cf. DREAM v.2 1.)

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1636.  Pagitt, Christianography (ed. 2), II. 40. Ecclesiasticks were unexempted, and deposing of Kings was then undreamed of.

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1674.  Boyle, Excell. Theol., II. v. 213. Even practical inventions … by undreamed of discoveries may be brought to lose the general reputation they had.

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1802.  Coleridge, Dejection, v. A new Earth…, Undreamt of by the sensual and the proud.

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1860.  Ruskin, Unto this Last, ii. (1896), 65. In some far-away and yet undreamt-of hour.

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1880.  Geo. Eliot, in Cross, Life (1885), III. 406. The great, once undreamed-of change in my life.

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