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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unperceived

mid-14c., from un- (1) "not" + past participle of perceive (v.).

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unperceived

a. Not perceived

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unperceived

adj. not perceived or commented on [syn: unremarked]

Usage examples of "unperceived".

I showed my companions how, by keeping among the rocks, we could approach the ambuscading party unperceived, and they followed my counsel, as it seemed the sole chance of saving your majesty.

His devotions, his mortifications, went all unperformed, for as someone from the city came in twice a day to fix his meals and to make sure he was well, he could no longer be sure that his worship would be uninterrupted and unperceived.

There was an enormously great Danish boarhound, which had, unperceived by us, followed Mrs.

Having made these arrangements, I slipped away unperceived and went to my mistress, resolved not to leave her till half an hour before the arrival of the lay-sisters.

I got in easily and unperceived, and recognized all the ladies of Cologne without their masks, and my mistress sitting at a faro-table risking a ducat.

The girls all looked at Elsie, whenever they could steal a glance unperceived, and many of them were struck with this singular expression her features wore.

I suggest, as a first approximation, that these particulars, together with such correlated others as are unperceived, jointly ARE the table.

Unperceived by them, he had contrived to break open the crazy door, and there he was!

I measured a little finger which had fallen down from one of these statues, and lay unperceived among some rubbish, and found it exactly four foot and an inch in length.

He could not do this unperceived, however, and at once the guerillas came swarming closer and closer upon our flanks.

He moved unperceived through the hollows and broken ground along the bank of the rivulet, had gained the plain, and was charging towards the sultan at full speed, when Mujahid Shaw, at a lucky instant, perceiving him, made a sign to Mhamood Afghaun, who without delay charged the Hindoo.

Every conceivable aid, method, stratagem, mechanism, by which these last desperate eight hundred yards could be overpassed by a human being unperceived, was revolved in her busy brain, and dismissed as impracticable.

This she accomplished, and stowing them in her own sledge with several articles of wearing apparel, not only took them from the palace unperceived, but they were carried on board without the knowledge of my companions.