ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. Not made generally known or accessible, esp. in print.
1607. Markham, Cavel. (title-p.), The discovery of the subtill trade of horse-coursers: Secrets before vnpublished.
1684. T. Burnet, Theory Earth, I. 261. The ancient glosses and catenæ upon Scripture are many of them either lost or unpublisht.
1731. Hist. Litteraria, III. 259. Authors whose Writings still remain unpublished in the Libraries of Rome, Venice, and Paris.
1828. P. Buchan (title), Ancient Ballads and Songs of the North of Scotland hitherto unpublished.
1862. Numism. Chron., II. 104. Unpublished Greek Imperial Coins.
2. Not divulged or disclosed.
1605. Shaks., Lear, IV. iv. 16. All blest Secrets, All you vnpublishd Vertues of the earth Spring with my teares.
a. 1850. Bryant, The Past, 30. Labours of good to man, Unpublished charity, unbroken faith.
1886. Mrs. Hungerford, Mental Struggle, vii. Nobody can help me, declares the as yet unpublished sinner.