ppl. a. (UN-1 8.)
1581. Sidney, Apol. Poetrie (Arb.), 20. In these my not old yeres…, hauing slipt into the title of a Poet, [I] am prouoked to say somthing vnto you in the defence of that my vnelected vocation.
1607. Shaks., Cor., II. iii. 207. You should haue ta’ne th’ aduantage of his Choller, And pass’d him vnelected.
1621. G. Sandys, Ovid’s Met., V. (1626), 97. Then, vnelected, rudely stept forth one, Who sung the Giants warre.
1836. E. Howard, R. Reefer, vi. The agonies of a new-born infant, under the torture of eternal fire, because it had died unelected.
1866. Sat. Rev., 8 Sept., 286/1. The privilege of … telling the unelected many [etc.].
