Unimagined

ppl. a. and adv. (UN-¹ 8.)

a. 1548.  Hall, Chron., Hen. VI., 103. A thyng discended from heauen, of theim vnsought, vnimagined and not deuised.

1649.  Lovelace, Poems (1904), 69. The unimagin’d Woes … of the Hierarchy.

1736.  Butler, Anal., I. i. 20. A latent and … an unimagined unknown power of perceiving sensible objects.

1754.  Francis, Constantine, III. 36. What uninvented, unimagin’d Tortures Have I to dread?

1846.  Trench, Mirac., xvii. 276. His walking over the sea must have been altogether unimagined by them.

1884.  Church, Bacon, viii. 187. That hitherto unimagined empire of man over the powers and forces that encompassed him.

  † b.  adv. Unexpectedly. Obs.^–1

1614.  W. B., Philosopher’s Banquet (ed. 2), 254. When, vnimagined, the wench demaunded of him,… whether he [etc.].