ppl. a. (UN-1 8, 8 c. Cf. MDu. ongerekent (Du. ongerekend), MHG. ungerechent (G. ungerechnet), ON. úreiknaðr, Sw. oräknad, Da. uregnet.)
c. 1340. Richard Rolle of Hampole, Prick of Conscience, 2462. Na syn þan unrekend sal be.
c. 1450. Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.), 166. Suche a carpynge is unknowe, Onrekenyd in my regne.
1464. Mann. & Househ. Exp. (Roxb.), 161. Afftyr the same rekenynge Keverstonys men … askyd more wiche was onrekenyd as thei seyd, vj. s. viij. d.
1551. Bp. Gardiner, On Sacram., 75. The foure substaunces, whiche this auctor … numbreth of Christ, might haue bene left vnrekened by tale.
1599. Daniel, Musoph. (1601), A iiij. Who doth touch the tenour of that vaine, Is held but vain; and his vnreckned pen The title but of Leuitie doth gaine.
1628. Gaule, Pract. The. (1629), 100. These were his Names, Many and Great; yet is Jesys (the Name aboue all names) vnreckoned.
1690. Dryden, Don Sebastian, III. i. Add that falshood To a long Bill that yet remains unreckon’d.
1875. Lowell, Under Old Elm, 135. The casual gleanings of unreckoned years.
1879. Baring-Gould, Germany, II. 283. The theory may be wrong,… the calculation put out by unreckoned elements.
b. With for.
1680. C. Nesse, Ch. Hist., 452. God left not his cruelty long unreckon’d for.
1894. Mrs. Dyan, Man’s Keeping (1899), 47. This unreckoned-for encounter … was a bitter pang.
