ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
† 1. Not furnished with tagged points or laces. Obs.
1574. Hellowes, trans. Gueuara’s Fam. Ep. (1577), 254. His shirt ragged, his doublet lose and vnpoynted.
2. a. Not punctuated.
1593. Marlowe, Edw. II., V. iv. But read it thus, and thats an other sence:… Vnpointed as it is, thus shall it goe.
1641. Phynne, Antip., 267. This ambiguous sentence unpointed, they take for a sufficient warrant, and most pittifully murthered the innocent King.
1655. Fuller, Ch. Hist., III. 107. He returned unto them a Ridling Answere, altogether unpointed.
b. Not provided with vowel-points or similar marks.
1640. Sir E. Dering, Carmelite (1641), 30. Three words in Greek, whereof one was unpointed.
1659. Bp. Walton, Consid. Considered, 278. There is no such uncertainty in the Text unpointed, as is pretended by them.
1778. Bp. Lowth, Transl. Isaiah, Notes 236. It is upon a rasure in a third; and left unpointed at first, as suspected, in a fourth.
1845. Proc. Philol. Soc., II. 172. An i, written in certain cases, but more generally in unpointed texts only perceptible in the pronunciation.
1877. Caird, Philos. Kant, 203. Like the reader of unpointed Hebrew, who supplies for himself the vowels.
3. Not furnished with a point; lacking point or finish.
1632. B. Jonson, Magn. Lady, IV. iii. Pro. Which, ending here, would have shown dull, flat, and unpointed; without any shape or sharpness.
1681. Dryden, Abs. & Achit., II. 502. But thou in Clumsy verse, unlickt, unpointed, Hast Shamefully defi’d the Lord’s Anointed.
1887. Bowen, Æneid, VI. 760. [He] leans on a lance unpointed and bright.
4. Not pointed at.
a. 1555. J. Philpot, Apol. (1559), A 5 b. That the simple people maye beware of their Pharisaical venome,… suffre them not to passe by you vnpointed at.
1642. Howell, For. Trav. (Arb.), 13. Yet one’s … personall conversation will still find out something new and unpointed at by any other.
