ppl. a. (UN-1 8.)
1611. Cotgr., Improuveu, vnprouided for,… vnheeded, vnthought vpon.
1660. Boyle, New Exp. Phys. Mech., xxxviii. 320. Whether it were due to any unheeded accident, or to the exsuction of the Air.
1736. Gray, Statius, i. 21. He … scornful flung th’ unheeded weight Aloof.
1748. Anson’s Voy., III. v. 336. A good meal was neither an uncommon nor an unheeded article.
1817. Shelley, Prometh. Unb., II. iv. 26. Pain, whose unheeded and familiar speech Is howling.
1864. Pusey, Lect. Daniel (1876), 326. Only one or two raised an unheeded doubt.
b. In predicative use.
1682. Creech, Lucretius, IV. 126. The fleeting Images, Unseen,… unheeded, cease.
1709. Prior, Henry & Emma, 666. Succeeding Years their happy Race shall run; And Age unheeded by Delight come on.
1783. Crabbe, Village, I. 293. His drooping patient,… long unheeded, knows remonstrance vain.
1824. Miss L. M. Hawkins, Annaline, II. 221. [She] left them when she found that her warning to take rest passed unheeded.
1875. Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), I. 33. He cannot let the thought … pass away unheeded and unexamined.
Hence Unheededly adv.
1818. Byron, Ch. Har., IV. lxiii. And such the frenzy,… that, beneath the fray, An earthquake reel’d unheededly away!
1821. Shelley, Epipsych., 421. Day, and Storm, and Calm,… Treading each other’s heels, unheededly.
