ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. Not described; not expressed in words.
1575. T. Cartwright, 2nd Reply to Whitgift, 446. As the Lord set forth the one, so he left nothing vndescribed in the other.
1600. J. Pory, trans. Leo’s Africa, 11. A description of places vndescribed by John Leo.
1697. Collier, Ess. Mor. Subj., I. (1703), 32. I had rather leave it undescribed, than be forced to give it its proper character.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., III. II. i. It is a change such as History must beg her readers to imagine, undescribed.
1851. Ruskin, Stones Ven. (1874), I. Pref. p. vi. The reader will find … that the buildings … have been hitherto undescribed.
b. spec. Not yet scientifically described. (Cf. NONDESCRIPT a. 1.)
c. 1680. Enquiries, 2/1. Have you any undescribed Plants, or others of special note?
1768. Pennant, in Phil. Trans., LVIII. 94. We believe this species to have been undescribed.
1817. Kirby & Sp., Entomol., xxi. II. 221. Two or three Brazilian species in my cabinet, that seem undescribed.
1890. Science-Gossip, XXVI. 76/2. A very beautiful species of Metopidia, which I believe to be undescribed.
2. Not marked off or delineated.
1852. Bailey, Festus (ed. 5), 475. The Atlantean axis of the world And all the undescribed circumference.
