Unmeant

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8 b.] Not meant or intended.

a. 1634.  Chapman, Revenge for Honour, V. ii. Howere you’re pleas’d to mock me … with these impertinent, unmeant discourses, I cannot … give them the least credit.

1697.  Dryden, Æneis, X. 561. The flying Spear was after Ilus sent, But Rhœtus hapen’d on a Death unmeant.

1738.  G. Lillo, Marina, II. i. I who cou’d not bear The unmeant rivalship of sweet Marina.

1820.  Shelley, Prometh. Unb., III. iv. 151. That … hollow talk Which makes the heart … question that unmeant hypocrisy.

1891.  E. Kinglake, Australian at Home, 71. It is the short sighted gentleman … on whom the ball finds its unmeant mark as a rule.

  b.  Const. by and with complement.

c. 1700.  Congreve, To Cynthia, Wks. 1730, III. 291. Curse on that Word so ready to be spoke, For through my Lips, unmeant by me, it broke.

1745.  Young, Nt. Th., VIII. 682. Can man … strike out A self-wrought happiness unmeant by him Who made us?

1848.  Bailey, Festus (ed. 3), 211. These mysteries Unmeant by Heaven to be cleared up on earth.