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  1.  Not summed up; uncounted.

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a. 1400–50.  Alexander, 1991. For as þis sede þat I send vnsoumed [v.r. vnsowmyd] is euer, So ben we … vnnowmyrd.

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1579.  Richmond. Wills (Surtees), XXVI. 286. Some of these gold and mony above writen. By those unsomed iij c. ijli. vjs. viijd.

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1649.  G. Daniel, Trinarch., Hen. IV., cclxiv. The wise Man has an vnsumm’d Librarye; Himselle and Man, and Bookes, are all his Bookes.

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1772.  Mason, Eng. Garden, I. 18. Egregious madness; yet pursu’d With pains unwearied, with expense unsumm’d.

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1791.  Cowper, Iliad, II. 568. So the Grecians swarm’d An unsumm’d multitude o’er all the plain.

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1857.  H. Miller, Test. Rocks, vi. 239. Armed with the experience in evil of unsummed ages.

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1869.  McLaren, Serm., Ser. II. xi. 194. After unsummed eternities of advance.

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  † 2.  (See quot. and cf. SUMMED 1.) Obs. rare.

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1615.  Latham, Falconry, ¶ 3 b. Vnsumm’d is when a Hawkes feathers are not come forth, or els not com’d home to their full length.

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