ppl. a. [UN-1 8. Cf. OFris. unnamed, onnamd, MDa. ongenaemt (Du. -naamd).]
1. Not mentioned or specified by name.
1509. Barclay, Ship of Folys, 162. They shall vnnamyd my shyppis haue in cure.
1526. R. Whytford, Martiloge (1893), 65. A woman vnnamed, with her two chylder twyndles.
1599. Dallam, in Early Voy. Levant (Hakl. Soc.), 81. I have not time now to wryte them, but of force muste leave them un-named untill a time of better Leasur.
c. 1620. Fletcher, False One, II. ii. Cæsar’s angry, And our design to please him lost and perish’d; Be glad thou art unnam’d.
1667. Milton, P. L., X. 595. Stil at Hels dark threshold to have sate watch, Unnam’d, undreaded.
1728. Ramsay, Archers diverting themselves, 136. Dear nymphs unnam’d, lay not the blame On us.
1798. S. & Ht. Lee, Canterb. T., II. 86. [She] left unnamed, and unprovided for, the young woman she had raised so far above her condition.
1836. [Mrs. Maitland], Lett. fr. Madras (1843), 4. A number of hitherto unnamed gentlemen, who sit down to eat and drink.
1866. Meredith, Vittoria, xlv. Throwing the burden … on some unnamed third person.
2. Not provided with a name; nameless.
1611. Donne, Anat. World, 35. As a child kept from the font, thou unnam’d had’st laid.
1667. Milton, P. L., XII. 140. From Hamath Northward to the Desert South (Things by thir names I call, though yet unnam’d).
1848. Bailey, Festus (ed. 3), 219. All terms are relative expressing bound, But Deity, interminable being, Hath ever therefore been unnamed.
1868. Morris, Earthly Par., I. I. 338. Robe … Inwrought with flowers of unnamed colours bright.
1876. Smiles, Sc. Natur., x. 202. Among the plants, were a great number unnamed.
absol. 1840. Carlyle, Heroes, i. ¶ 13. The Highest Being reveals himself in man. This body, these faculties, this life of ours, is it not all as a vesture for that Unnamed?
b. Unnamed bone, the innominate bone (INNOMINATE a. 3).
1845. Encycl. Metrop., VII. 329/1. [The sides] of the Hip-girdle [are] … formed … by the pair of Unnamed … bones, each consisting … of three pieces whilst the bird is young, but becoming consolidated early. Ibid. Of the Unnamed bone.
