ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. Not accomplished or achieved; uncompleted.
1525. Ld. Berners, Froiss., II. cxiv. 329. Your wysshes and enterprises are more lyke to be vnacomplysshed than atchyued.
1590. Swinburne, Testaments, 133. The same is neither accompted for accomplished,… neither yet for vnaccomplished or deficient.
1667. Milton, P. L., III. 455. All th’ unaccomplisht works of Natures hand, Abortive, monstrous, or unkindly mixt.
1736. Thomson, Liberty, IV. 161. Yet dark beneath The suffering feature sullen vengeance lowrs Shame, indignation, unaccomplish’d rage.
1821. Shelley, Hellas, Prol. 51. Assemble, sons of God, To speed or to prevent or to suspend … The unaccomplished destiny.
1850. Tennyson, In Mem., xci. The hope of unaccomplish’d years Be large and lucid round thy brow.
2. Of persons: Not socially or intellectually accomplished.
a. 1729. Congreve, trans. Ovid’s Art Love, III. Still unaccomplish’d may the maid he thought, Who gracefully to dance was never taught.
1796. Mme. D’Arblay, Camilla, II. 357. How many are there, amongst the untaught and unaccomplished, who would think [etc.].
1826. Miss Mitford, Our Village, Ser. II. (1863), 274. Unaccomplished they were of course, but they could never have been thought ignorant.
1874. Miss Mulock, My Mother & I. xiv. Not that she is ill-educated, or unaccomplished.
