[UN-1 8 b, 8 c. Cf. ON. úfundinn, older Da. ufunden, Du. ongevonden.] Not found; undiscovered. Also with out.
1584. Lyly, Campaspe, V. ii. Content to lyue vnknowne, and die vnfounde.
1644. Quarles, Barnabas & B. (1651), 211. Being lost, hee seekes himselfe unfound, or findes himselfe unknowne.
1678. Dryden & Lee, Œdipus, I. i. But for the Murderer’s self, unfound by Man, Find him ye Pow’rs Cœlestial and Infernal.
1721. Ramsay, Content, 316. More than seventy years … I’ve sought this court, till now unfound by me.
1818. Byron, Ch. Har., IV. cxxiv. Unfound the boon, unslaked the thirst.
1895. Rider Haggard, Heart of World, xi. Our eyes might behold the greatest of these cities, sought for many generations but as yet unfound.
(b) 1621. G. Sandys, Ovid’s Met., II. (1626), 28. To farthest Earth affrighted Nilus fled; And there conceal’d his yet vnfound-out head.
