ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. Not related or mentioned; untold.
1472. Cov. Leet Bk., 378. All thees moo, whoos names be vndrewreton besyde many moo vnrehersyd.
1562. T. Wilson, Rhet. (ed. 2), 76 b. The holie mother Church willeth me to leaue nothing vnrehearsed.
1613. Sherley, Trav. Persia, 92. A discourse proued true … by many examples which he would leaue unrehearsed.
1629. Sir W. Mure, True Crucifixe, 670. Exposd to paine, to horrors vnrehearsed.
a. 1800. Cowper, Odyss. (ed. 2), XIV. 236. I could exhaust … the circling year Complete, my woes rehearsing, and at last Leave unrehearsed large portion of the toil.
1827. Pollok, Course T., X. 32. New scenes of bliss … unrehearsed by mortal tongue.
2. Not previously practised.
1845. E. Holmes, Mozart, 289. The unrehearsed overture was then commenced.
1875. C. L. Kenney, Mem. Balfe, 44. An alarm of fire through some unrehearsed effect in the incantation scene.
