Unmissed

ppl. a. (UN-¹ 8.)

a. 1400.  Relig. Pieces fr. Thornton MS. (1914), 105/255. Thay menskede the with manhede, with mytir vn-myste.

c. 1520.  Barclay, Jugurth (1557), 8. The right kayes … nyghtly were delyuered into Hiempsall … soo myght they nat be vnmyssed the space of a nyght.

1621.  G. Sandys, Ovid’s Met., IV. (1626), 68. Then Thisbe … slipping forth, vnmissed of her guard, Comes maskt to Ninus tomb.

1757.  Gray, Lett. to Mason, 28 Sept. Why should he not steal away, unmarked and unmissed till the hurry of passions in those … was a little abated?

1791.  Cowper, Iliad, XVI. 652. Thy allies … Perish, unaided and unmiss’d by thee.

1819.  Scott, Ivanhoe, vi. Of comfort there was little, and, being unknown, it was unmissed.

1835.  Court Mag., V1. 59/1. He’s only fit for the dunghill, where he would rot among other offal, unmissed.