Unended

ppl. a. Now rare. [UN-¹ 8: cf. OE. unʓeendod.]

  1.  Not made to end or stop; having no limit or bounds; continued, lasting, infinite.

c. 1250.  Gen. & Ex., 3518. For if ðu it ȝernes and ȝisse, ðu tines vn-ended blisce.

1340–70.  Alex. & Dind., 751. Bochours ben þei echon ȝour body to dismembre, & euerich pinchen his part þere paine is vnended.

1382.  Wyclif, Job xxii. 5. For thi myche malice, and thi wickidnessis vnendid.

c. 1400.  trans. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh., 84. Thes er tho þat out soght, and disputyd … of full, of voyde, of endyd, of vnendyd.

1522.  Vaus, Rudiment. Gram., Bb ij b (Jam.). Infinitivo modo. On-endyt or determyt mode to nowmyr or persone.

1596.  Edw. III., II. I. 139. Wherefore talkest thou of a period To that which craues vnended admiration?

  2.  Not brought to an end or conclusion; unfinished, incomplete.

1382.  Wyclif, Wisd. iv. 5. Forsothe braunchis vnendid [1388 vnperfit] shul be to-broken.

1471.  Sc. Acts, Jas. III. (1814), II. 101/1. Al materis … þat ar now opynit in þis present parliament & vnendit.

1535.  Stewart, Cron. Scot. (Rolls), II. 414. Rycht weill ȝe ken … Oure interpryiss whendit is and done.

1591.  Sparry, trans. Cattan’s Geomancie, 235. The sute shall be for unmoueable goods, and shall not last long unended.

1805.  Monthly Mag., XX. 43. It would probably have remained unended for a long time.