ppl. a. [UN-1 8, 5 b.]
1. Not numbered or reckoned up; uncounted.
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, xli. (Agnes), 224. Þe gret Ioy in hewine þat he saw, þat vnnovmerit mycht be.
1434. Misyn, Mending of Life, 126. God truly is infinit of gretnes,… of swetnes vn-nowmbyrde.
1480. Caxton, Chron. Eng., ccxxxii. 249. Ther were take many knyȝtes and squyers and other men that were vnnombred.
1601. Shaks., Jul. C., III. i. 63. The Skies are painted with vnnumbred sparkes.
1656. Cowley, Davideis, I. 749. Of Numbers too th’ unnumbred wealth he showes.
1725. Pope, Odyss., II. 212. Unnumber’d Birds glide thro’ the aërial way.
1746. Hervey, Medit., Refl. on Flower-Garden, 4. Prodigious Theatre!… Where … Worlds un-numbered roll at large!
1844. Kinglake, Eöthen, xi. The fleas of all nations were there:—Asiatic hordes unnumbered.
1891. Farrar, Darkn. & Dawn, lvi. To represent these unnumbered agonies as a festival of expiation.
2. Not included in an enumeration; not marked or provided with a number.
a. 1533. Ld. Berners, Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546), H vij b. The .ix. Epiphanes of the Egiptiens was vnnoumbred and putte downe.
1654. Ld. Hatton, in Nicholas Papers (Camden), II. 147. I have receaved yours (unnumbred) of the 8th of Dec.
a. 1667. [see UNMETHODIZED 1].
1816. Wilson, City of Plague, II. iii. 94. He for his lust, Unnumber’d lies.
