Uncertified

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8.]

  1.  Not made certain; not assured.

1535.  Stewart, Cron. Scot. (Rolls), II. 170. Vncertifieit tha war into sic thing Into that cace quhome that tha wald mak king.

1801.  Southey, Thalaba, VI. xviii. The astonish’d Thalaba … closed his eyes, And open’d them again; And yet uncertified, He prest them close.

  2.  Not attested as certain; not guaranteed by certification.

1681.  Calr. Treas. Bks., 7. That he do not issue out process upon any uncertified bond.

1760–1.  Smollett, Launcelot Greaves, xx. The mercy of the legislature in favor of insolvent debtors, is never extended to uncertified bankrupts taken in execution.

1846.  Grote, Greece, I. xix. II. 47. Any chronological system which may be applied to it, must be essentially uncertified and illusory.

1876.  Meredith, Beauch. Career, xxxiv. She touched the double chords within us which are … a divine discord if an uncertified harmony.