Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not inscribed; having no inscription.

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  • adjective Not inscribed.

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un- +‎ inscribed

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Examples

  • Today, the headstones are uninscribed, although some may once have had painted decorations or inscriptions that have not survived.

    Review of Doubting Jesus' Resurrection James F. McGrath 2010

  • Worthyvale Also: SlaughterbridgeThere is some confusion about the exact history of this stone as it appears to have occasionally been mixed-up with a second, probably uninscribed stone which now lies in the stream.

    Archive 2009-04-01 tellurian 2009

  • Worthyvale Also: SlaughterbridgeThere is some confusion about the exact history of this stone as it appears to have occasionally been mixed-up with a second, probably uninscribed stone which now lies in the stream.

    Celtic Inscribed Stones Project tellurian 2009

  • Once again, there was a dramatic difference between the patina on the uninscribed back and sides of the stone from that found within and among the chiseled letters.

    Gold Dust and James Bond 2003

  • Ayalon determined in his analysis that while the calcite of the patina from the uninscribed surface of the James ossuary, and indeed the surfaces and inscriptions of other authentic ossuaries that he examined, had ratios that were normal for average ground temperature of the Jerusalem vicinity, the ratios of the "James Bond" -- that strange mixture that covered only the letters of the inscription -- was entirely different.

    Gold Dust and James Bond 2003

  • It is gangster-ugly, garish, heavy and uninscribed, and if there is some hidden semiotic meaning in the blankness of the ornament, it can only be unconscious.

    Broken Music, A Memoir Sting 2003

  • Let them and me rest in obscurity and peace; and my tomb remain uninscribed, and my memory in oblivion, until other times and other men can do justice to my character.

    Speeches from the Dock, Part I Various

  • Let them and me repose in obscurity and peace, and my tomb remain uninscribed until other times and other men can do justice to my character and memory.

    Shakspere, Personal Recollections John A. Joyce

  • Let them and me repose in obscurity and peace, and my tomb remain uninscribed, until other times and other men can do justice to my character.

    Elson Grammar School Literature v4 William H. Elson

  • And wherever on the habitable globe a few members of the scattered Irish race are to be found, there are hearts that are thrilled by even the faintest allusion to the uninscribed grave-stone and the unwritten epitaph.

    Speeches from the Dock, Part I Various

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