Unlightened

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8.]

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† 1. Unenlightened. Obs.

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1587. Golding, De Mornay, xxii. 389. Princes vnlightened by God, are so desirous of vainglorie.

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1627. Hakewill, Apol., 35. Onely this part of [Christendom] … remaines … vnlightned, in the darkenes of ignorance.

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2. Not lighted up; unbrightened; † unlighted.

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1637–50. Row, Hist. Kirk (Maitland Cl.), I. 113. A glorious altar sett vp, with two unlightned candles, and two basins.

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1659. W. Chamberlayne, Pharonnida, III. ii. 19. Whilst she did remain Unlightened with a beam of comfort.

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1852. Bailey, Festus (ed. 4), 42. Some seem to live, Whose hearts are like those unlightened stars Of the first darkness.

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1896. Westm. Gaz., 2 May, 2/2. Sombre gloom, unlightened save for the red staves of the inverted halberds.

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