unelucidated

In reply to Liebig's hypothesis that a decomposing substance could induce the decomposition of other substances in contact with it, and after he had shown the examples cited by Liebig to be invalid, he continues: We thus obtain a fictitious explanation by which we believe to have understood that which we cannot yet understand, and whereby the attention is diverted away from the matter to be explained which then remains all the longer unelucidated.

Wilhelm Ostwald - Nobel Lecture 1966

“Reverend Sir, it happened to me, as I was just now in seclusion and plunged in meditation, that a consideration presented itself to my mind; as follows: ‘These theories which The Blessed One has left unelucidated, has set aside and rejected, —that the world is eternal, that the world is not eternal, … that the saint neither exists nor does not exist after death, —these The Blessed One does not elucidate to me.

Questions Which Tend Not to Edification. II. The Doctrine. Translated from the Majjhima-Nikya, and constituting Sutta 63. 1909

Probably not, if you have never known the joys of profound antiquarian erudition, with an unelucidated past behind you, and inexpensive publication before.

Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878