ppl. a. (UN-1 8.)
1721. Amherst, Terræ Filius, No. 31. All their doctrines are generally embraced whilst unexplained and unexamined.
1784. Cowper, Task, II. 58. Fires from beneath, and meteors from above, Portentous, unexampled, unexplain’d.
1842. Manning, Serm. (1848), 10. The great and unexplained fall of the ‘sons of God.’
1879. St. George’s Hosp. Rep., IX. 706. A rule, subject doubtless to no few unexplained exceptions.
Hence Unexplainedly adv.
1811. Miss L. M. Hawkins, C’tess & Gertr., II. 366. These insular situations,… where nothing can occur unexpectedly and unexplainedly, without … carrying an inflammable train.
