Unrelated

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8, 5 b.]

  1.  Not connected by blood; not akin.

a. 1661.  Fuller, Worthies, London, II. (1662), 207. But let others unrelated unto him write his Character.

a. 1677.  Barrow, Serm. (1686), III. 36. ’Tis not the example … of a stranger, of one indifferent, or unrelated to us.

1706.  De Foe, Jure Div., x. 219. Of foreign Breed, of unrelated Race,… A spurious Birth of intermingl’d Blood.

a. 1752.  Warburton, Serm., Wks. 1788, V. 79. They … despised the rest of the sons of Adam, who … were deemed to be naturally unrelated to them.

1875.  Maine, Hist. Inst., iii. 65. The tribesmen of an alien and unrelated tribe.

1882.  Farrar, Early Chr., II. 218. Seven emperors … for the most part entirely unrelated to one another.

  2.  Not standing in relationship or connection.

1668.  H. More, Div. Dial., I. xxxv. 156. If they were so unrelated indeed in the … apprehension of them,… then I confess the Inference might be sound.

1701.  Norris, Ideal World, I. ii. 92. For things to be only conditionally related … is really to be unrelated to, and separated from one another.

1785.  Burke, Corr. (1844), III. 42. Detached and unrelated offences.

1817.  R. Jameson, Cuvier’s Ess. Theory Earth (ed. 3), p. vii. Petrifactions are no longer viewed … as things isolated and unrelated to the rocks.

1860.  Tyndall, Glac., I. i. 6. A theory … which … apparently referred a great number of unrelated phenomena to a common cause.

  3.  Not recounted or told.

1764.  Museum Rust., IV. 32. Some peculiar circumstance in the soil,… or … some unrelated circumstance in the culture.

1796.  Mme. D’Arblay, Camilla, X. xiii. A reciprocal confidence that left nothing untold, not an action unrelated.

  Hence Unrelatedness.

1854.  Sylvester, Coll. Math. Papers (1908), II. 32. The number of singularities (including absolute unrelatedness and entire coincidence within the purview of the term).