ppl. a. (UN-1 8.)
c. 1550. Cheke, Matt. xiii. 57. Theer is not a propheet … vnesteemed but in his own contree.
1561. T. Norton, Calvin’s Inst., I. 18. The Hebrue tong lay not onely vnestemed, but almost vnknowen.
1616. Drumm. of Hawth., Madrigals, Rose. O Show of Showes! of vnesteemed Worth.
1852. Bailey, Festus (ed. 4), 473. In thy voice The warning and foreknowledge unexplained, Not unesteemed.
1858. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., II. xii. I. 167. An unesteemed creature, who strove to make his time peaceable in this world.
