Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not navigated; not passed over in ships or other vessels; not sailed on or over.

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  • adjective That has not been navigated; unexplored.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ navigated

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Examples

  • That the ring fell into the river Anduin, an unnavigated river, at that time.

    September 7th, 2005 curufea 2005

  • 'His death comes at a time when the country is charting unnavigated waters in the terrain of international affairs, when the world looks upon South Africa to share its experiences in matters of conflict resolution and peace - making,' added the minister, who described the former envoy as an internationalist and patriot.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • Their civil liberty being mutilated, and the enjoyment of their religious sentiments denied them, in the land that gave them birth, they fled their country, they braved the dangers of the then almost unnavigated ocean, and fought, on the other side the globe, an asylum from the iron grasp of tyranny, and the more intolerable scourge of ecclesiastical persecution.

    The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1884 Various

  • And, although discovery was not the first object of that voyage, I could venture to traverse a far greater space of sea, til then unnavigated; to discover greater tracts of country in high and low south latitudes, and to persevere longer in exploring and surveying more correctly the extensive coasts of those new-discovered countries, than any former navigator perhaps had done during one voyage.

    A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 Robert Kerr 1784

  • If the arduous but exact researches of this extraordinary man have not discovered a new world, they have discovered seas unnavigated and unknown before.

    A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time Robert Kerr 1784

  • 'If the arduous but exact researches of this extraordinary man have not discovered a new world, they have discovered seas unnavigated and unknown before.

    Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook : with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods Andrew Kippis 1760

  • And, although discovery was not the first object of that voyage, I could venture to traverse a far greater space of sea, til then unnavigated; to discover greater tracts of country in high and low south latitudes, and to persevere longer in exploring and surveying more correctly the extensive coasts of those new-discovered countries, than any former navigator perhaps had done during one voyage.

    A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World, Volume 1 James Cook 1753

  • The 16-soldier patrol from the 3rd Squadron, 71st Cavalry Regiment of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team set out June 18, 2006, on a hellish three-day climb up a steep, unnavigated mountainside into enemy territory near Gowardesh.

    Latest Articles 2009

  • And as for solitariness; the great forests of the north, the expanses of unnavigated waters, the Greenland ice-fields, are the profoundest of solitudes to a human observer; still the magic of their changeable tides and seasons mitigates their terror; because, though unvisited by men, those forests are visited by the May; the remotest seas reflect familiar stars even as Lake Erie does; and in the clear air of a fine Polar day, the irradiated, azure ice shows beautifully as malachite.

    The Piazza Tales Herman Melville 1855

  • ‘If the arduous but exact researches of this extraordinary man have not discovered a new world, they have discovered seas unnavigated and unknown before.

    Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003

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