† 1. Not advertised or warned; uninformed (of something). Obs.
1450. Paston Lett., I. 176. My Lord York, unadvertised of the trouth, sent a lettre to my Lord Oxford.
1535. Stewart, Cron. Scot. (Rolls), III. 362. All this … wes done In that intent to turne agane richt sone, Quhen that his fais sould wnaduerteist be.
a. 1548. Hall, Chron., Hen. VI., 174. The kyng was not ignorant of this assemble, nor yet vnaduertised of the dukes intent.
1627. Lisander & Cal., VIII. 157. Thus Lisander, unadvertized, could not come to the court within the time hee was expected.
1652. Loveday, trans. Calprenede’s Cassandra, III. 212. That it was impossible for Roxina to be long unadvertis’d of his love.
2. Not announced or made known.
1864. Daily Telegraph, 6 Aug. Strange storms, unadvertised by Admiral Fitzroy,… go eddying round us.
1874. A. Whitney, We Girls, xi. 229. The little unadvertised resources of New York.
