ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. Not recorded by an entry in a book.
1482. in Charters, etc. Edinb. (1871), 168. Gudis … enterit in the tovnis bukis, togidder with the eschete of the sammyn quhare it beis fundin vnenterit.
1554–5. in Feuillerat, Revels Q. Mary (1914), 169. xij elles of white & blewe sarcenet … left out vnentred in the boke of the same [masque].
1763. Brit. Mag., IV. 174. The makers of cyder or perry … shall enter … the mills,… and other places to be made use of,… under the penalty of 25l. for using any unentered place.
† 2. Not initiated or introduced. Obs.
1548. Udall, etc., Erasm. Par. Luke i. 7. A people not vtterly vntraded or vnentred in his discipline, but somwhat prepaired already.
1642. Milton, Apol. Smect., 45. In the Greek tongue most of them unletter’d, or unenter’d to any sound proficiency in those Attick maisters of morall wisdome.
3. Sc. Law. Not formally admitted.
1711. in Nairne Peerage Evidence (1874), 142. [They are] not to lye out themselves unentered in the superiority to their prejudice.
1868. Act 31 & 32 Vict., c. 101 § 6. The rights and remedies competent to a superior against his vassal lying out unentered.
4. Of hounds: Not yet put into a pack.
1896. Sportsman, 10 July, 4/1. In young unentered hounds the Eamont were first and Boddington second.
5. Not gone into; not penetrated.
1775. Warton, Hist. Eng. Poetry, I. i. 20, note. This cavern … remained closely shut and unentered for many ages.
1821. Byron, Cain, II. ii. The intelligences I have seen Round our regretted and unenter’d Eden.
