Unseen (unseén; but únseen, when placed before a subst.: Lucr. 753. Lucr. 753 Lucr. 753 R2 IV, 297. Hml. IV, 1, 12. Only once in prose: Ant. I, 2, 159) 1) not seen, not perceived or discovered: Lucr. 676. Lucr. 676 763 (the u. secrecy of night, i. e. the quality of hiding unseen secrets). Lucr. 676 Sonn. 33, 8. 118, 3. Pilgr. 232 and LLL IV, 3, 106. Gent. V, 4, 4. Err. I, 2, 38. LLL V, 2, 358. All's II, 3, 296. Wint. I, 2, 292. R2 III, 2, 39. IV, 187. IV, 187 H5 I, 1, 66. Rom. III, 2, 7. Hml. III, 1, 33. III, 4, 149. IV, 1, 12. Ant. I, 2, 159.
2) invisible: “himself behind was left u. save to the eye of mind,” Lucr. 1426. “O jest u., inscrutable,” Gent. II, 1, 141.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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