ppl. a. [OE. unsǽd (UN-1 8 b), NFris. unsad, MDu. ongeseit, Du. ongezegd, MLG. ungesegget, -gesecht, MHG. ungesaget, -geseit (G. ungesagt), ON. úsagðr (Sw. osagd, (M)Da. usagt, Norw. usagd).] Not said or uttered.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Hom., II. 466. Eac þæs dæʓes godspel is swiðe earfoðe læwedum mannum to understandenne…; ði we hit lætað unsæd.
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, xxx. (Theodera), 234. Theodera þane cane hyr pray þat scho wald tel hyr … & lef vnsad til hyr richt nocht.
c. 1425. Cast. Persev., 693, in Macro Plays, 98. Þer-fore I am mad massenger … þorwe all þe world … vnsayd sawys for to seye.
c. 1440. Alph. Tales, 324. I hafe lefte þe laste colett vnsaid.
c. 1450. Merlin, x. 143. Merlyn … tolde hyn alle these thynges, that nought be lefte vn-seide.
1532. More, Confut. Tindale, Wks. 345/2. He held … that al diuine seruice may be left vnsaied without ani sinne.
1593. Sidney’s Arcadia, V. (1922), II. 192. Leaving nothing unsaide which a filthy minde can imagine.
1609. Donne, Elegie Mrs. Boulstred, 1. Death I recant, and say, unsaid by mee What ere hath slip’d, that might diminish thee.
1699. Bentley, Phal., 46. This was … a thing unsaid before.
1730. Swift, Poems, Traulus, II. 20. He … Talks whate’er comes in his head; Wishes it were all unsaid.
1805. Scott, Last Minstrel, V. xxvii. Half his tale he left unsaid.
1848. Thackeray, Van. Fair, lxvi. You leave me under the weight of an accusation which, after all, is unsaid.
1889. Walpole, Life Ld. J. Russell, II. 266. Forced, therefore, to leave unsaid the words … necessary for his own defence.
