ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. Not borne in mind; allowed to drop out of mind; forgot.
With early examples cf. UNREMEMBER v.
c. 1400. Found. St. Bartholomew’s, xii. 17. Innumerable were schewid tokynnys of myracles, but … they be almoyste vnremembred.
1422. Yong, trans. Secreta Secret., 203. For als moche as good newe ensamples sholde not ben vnremembrid for lerynge of tho that arne to come.
1584. Hutton, Lett., in Campbell, Chancellors (1856), II. 273. Towards yourself leave not the causes of my presumptions unremembered.
1607. Hieron, Wks., I. 260. This feare causeth them … to be vnwilling to let any of it [sc. comfort of the Scriptures] fall to the ground vnremerbred.
1641. Milton, Reform., II. 69. Nor must their sincere … proceeding hitherto, be unremember’d.
1734. A. Hill, On Death Dennis, 9. The furious petulence, the jealous start,… Veil’d in thy grave shall unremember’d lie.
1798. Wordsw., Tintern Abbey, 31. Feelings too Of unremembered pleasure.
1816. Southey, Lay of Laureate, lxxvi. Where in elder time Earth’s unremember’d conquerors held the sway.
1853. G. Johnston, Nat. Hist. E. Borders, I. 29. A skirmish of unremembered date.
† b. (Left) unrecorded or unmentioned. Obs.
c. 1477. Caxton, Jason, 52. Hit is not to be vremembrid that thenuie of … Peleus grewe so terribly that he … coude haue no reste.
a. 1513. Fabyan, Chron., I. i. Whiche if any suche wonder had ben there wroughte, shuld nat haue ben vnremembred [by] the wryters.
1570. Foxe, A. & M. (ed. 2), 19/2. Which doubtles shoulde not haue bene vnremembred, if he had bene then in Rome.
1603. G. Owen, Pembrokeshire (1892), 219. For the better memorye of these … members, not to suffer them vnremembered in this my Discripcion of their Country.
c. 1650. P. Smith, Life Willet, in Fuller, Abel Red. (1651), 565. I thought good … to adde some remarkable things then unremembred or undiscovered.
† 2. Of persons: Unmindful, forgetful. Obs.
1467. Paston Lett., II. 306. He thynkyth indoubted that William Worcetre shuld not be unremembred of this.
a. 1528. Bp. R. Fox, in Ellis, Orig. Lett., Ser. II. II. 6. I am not unremembred of my deutye towardes the Kyng.
1536. E. Lee, Ibid., Ser. III. II. 326. I trust your Highnes is not unremembred, that [etc.].
