† 1. Unexpected, unlooked-for. Obs.
c. 1400. Comm. Luke (MS. Bodl. 143), i. 7. God ordeyned þat ioon was born of fadir & modir of old age,… þat bi vngessid birþe of child a graciousere ȝifte shulde enfourme hem.
2. Not solved or known by guessing.
1590. Spenser, F. Q., I. ix. 7. For whither he through fatall deepe foresight Me hither sent, for cause to me vnghest, Or [etc.].
1805. Scott, Last Minstrel, V. xvii. But cause of terror, all unguess’d, Was fluttering in her gentle breast.
1837. Lytton, Athens, I. 50. The frequent operation of causes unrecognised, unforeseen, unguest.
1900. Pilot, 22 Sept., 358/2. An explanation of its mysterious and once unseen and unguessed processes.
b. Not guessed at, not dreamt of.
1746. Eliza Heywood, Female Spect., No. 22 (1748), IV. 203. By what unseen, unguessed at means, are frequently the greatest events brought about!
1838. Lytton, Zicci, xiv. Art thou some itinerant mountebank, or some unguest-of friend?
1876. Miss Yonge, Womankind, xiii. The best endeavours … are often frustrated by some unguessed-at peril.
