ppl. a. (UN-1 8.)
(a) 1523. in W. H. Turner, Select. Rec. Oxford (1880), 42. All the trespassors … have byn permitted to passe unpresented.
1548. in Strype, Eccl. Mem. (1721), II. App. Q. 57. We also … advertise you, that for no Favour ye go about to excuse or leave unpresented, those that … have offended.
1620. Quarles, Div. Poems, Feast for Worms, IX. ix. No crime unsifted, no sinne unpresented, Can lurke unseene.
1732. J. Louthian, Form of Process (1752), 185. You shall present no Person for Hatred, Malice, or Ill-will; nor leave any thing unpresented for Fear, Favour or Affection.
(b). 1657. Baynes, in Burton’s Diary (1828), II. 278. There are many things yet unpresented in the Petition.
c. 1732. in A. Thomson, T. Boston of Ettrick (1895), 251. [He] was … scrupulous of anything new or unpresented, until he was thoroughly satisfied of its necessity.
1895. Petrie, Egypt. Tales, Ser. I. Introd. 1. It is strange that … the oldest literature … should yet have remained unpresented to English readers.
(c) 1864. G. A. Sala, in Daily Tel., 25 Feb. I went back to New York unavoidably unpresented [to the President].
1897. W. C. Hazlitt, 4 Generations, II. 221. The Queen and the Court,… their almost affecting solicitude for the health even of the Unpresented.
