ppl. a. [UN-1 10.] Having no beginning.
1591. Sylvester, Du Bartas, I. i. 343. [The world is] nought but all, in’t selfe including All: An un-beginning, midlesse, endlesse Ball.
1756. Law, Lett. Important Subj., 118. The unbeginning, never-ending, never-changing trinity of love. Ibid. (a. 1761), Behmen’s Myst. Magnum, iv. (1772), 18. Threefold in its eternal unbeginning Birth.
1842. Mrs. Browning, Grk. Chr. Poets, IV. ad fin. That unbeginning light of Thine.
1887. E. Johnson, Antiq. Mater, 217. The doctrine of the unbeginning and unknowable God.
Hence Unbeginningly adv., -ness.
1674. N. Fairfax, Bulk & Selv., 165. You can no wayes halve them, and say, This half is unbeginningly, and that unendingly.
1862. F. Hall, Hindu Philos. Syst., 35. By the unbeginningness of transmigration.
