(UN-1 8 b. Cf. Du. ongevoeld, G. ungefühlt.)
a. 1585. Sidney, Astr. & Stella, Sonn. xxiv. Let him, depriu’d of sweet but vnfelt ioyes,… grow in only folly rich!
1595. Daniel, Civ. Wars, V. xcvii. Whilst Talbot … Carries his vnfelt age as if forgot.
1607. Chapman, Bussy d’Ambois, III. ii. O, ’tis a subtle knave; how like the plague Unfelt he strikes into the brain of man.
1631. Dryden, Abs. & Achit., I. 693. Thus, form’d by Nature, furnished out with Arts, He glides unfelt into their secret hearts.
1742. Gray, Adversity, 8. Purple Tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone.
1814. Wordsw., Excurs., IV. 456. Nor is its power Unfelt among the sedentary fowl That seek yon pool.
1883. Parker, Apost. Life, II. 192. He was writhing in an unfelt and unknown agony.
absol. 1885. A. Weir, Hist. Basis Mod. Europe (1889), 487. Few have been destitute of some theory respecting the unseen and unfelt.
Hence † Unfeltly adv. Obs.
1605. Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. iii. III. Law, 107. Into his brest he blowes A banefull ayre, whose strength unfetlly flowes Through all his veins.
