ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]

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  1.  Not assigned to, or set in, a definite place.

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1512.  Northumbld. Househ. Bk. (1770), 423. The Steward and Chaplaine must sit down in the Hall, and call unto them the Gentlemen if there be any unplaced above.

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1591.  Sylvester, Du Bartas, I. i. 529. Th’ unplac’d Climates of that deep disorder.

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1610.  Holland, Camden’s Brit., I. 77. Augustus gift unplaced lay, none would it undertake.

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1849.  G. R. Gliddon, Olia Ægyptiaca, 39. My own List of Unplaced Kings … who preceded the XVIIIth. Dynasty.

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1861.  Hulme, trans. Moquin-Tandon, I. v. 34. Languages either unplaced or Indo-European (so called).

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  b.  Racing. (See PLACE v. 5 d.)

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1881.  Racing Analysis, I. 366. Aeronaut … also ran unplaced at 135 and 196.

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1883.  Sat. Rev., 24 Nov., 665/2. Last year,… Hackness started first favourite for the Liverpool Cup, and was unplaced.

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  2.  Not appointed to a place or office.

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1558.  in Strype, Ann. Ref. (1709), I. App. iv. 4. All such as governed … and now remain unplaced and uncalled to Credit.

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1575.  Gascoigne, Glasse of Govt., I. ii. It is not like that he should have returned from thence unplaced.

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1732, 1774.  [see UNPENSIONED].

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1823.  J. Wilson, Marg. Lyndsay, xliii. 345. Young preachers, yet unplaced.

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1849.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., ii. I. 241. The other fifteen were to be unplaced noblemen and gentlemen of ample fortune.

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