[UN-1 8.]
1. Not noticed or observed; unmarked.
1563. Goldinge, Cæsar, III. (1565), 74 b. Bycause the thing was done in ye sight of Cesar and all his army, insomuch that no dede … could escape vnnoted.
1600. Bodenham’s Belvedere (1875), 59. Gnats are vnnoted where-soe’re they flie But Eagles gaz’d vpon with euery eye.
c. 1620. Fletcher, False One, I. i. I’le be admitted for a wanton tale To some most private Cabinets, when your Priest-hood … Shall wait without unnoted.
1725. Pope, Odyss., I. 177. Where the free guest, unnoted, might relate, If haply conscious, of his Father’s fate.
1742. Young, Nt. Th., II. 274. Unnoted, [conscience] notes each moment misapply’d.
1813. Byron, Corsair, I. xvii. Secure, unnoted, Conrad’s prow pass’d by.
1894. Mrs. Dyan, Man’s Keeping (1899), 135. Unnoted by him, that vision had faded much of late.
2. Not specially noted or observed; undistinguished, obscure.
1592. Soliman & Pers., I. ii. 73. Sweet Perseda, vnnoted though I be, Thy beauty yet shall make me knowne ere night.
1621. G. Sandys, Ovid’s Met., IX. (1626), 191. Phæstus … fostered One, Lydgus, of vn-noted parents bred.
1725. Pope, Odyss., V. 402. Un-wept, un-noted, and for ever dead!
1789. Burns, Lett. to Lady Constable, 16 Dec. Only to add so many units more to the unnoted crowd that followed their leaders.
1860. Elliott, Life Our Lord, ii. 67. The devout … Simeon … saw perchance before him no more than two unnoted worshippers.
1883. Myers, Ess. Mod., Mazzini (1885), 69. It has run its fair course unnoted, and in silence passed away.
