Unmemberedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

unmembered (comparative more unmembered, superlative most unmembered)

1. Lacking members; undifferentiated.
   • 1885, Friedrich Froebel, The Education of Man, page 28:

     Up to this stage, the inner nature of man is still an unmembered unity, void of manifoldness.

   • 1887, Franz von Reber, History of Mediaeval Art, page 59:

     There is something excessively clumsy in the heavy and unmembered side piers, in the exterior transition between the cupola and the square, and in the many squat buttresses.

   • 2019, Heinrich Kramer James Sprenger, The Malleus Maleficarum Revised, page 77:

     Besides, it is to be considered that such an illusion of the sight and touch can be caused no only by the interposition of some smooth unmembered body, but also by the summoning to the fancy or imagination of certain forms and ideas latent in the mind, in such a way that a thing is imagined as being perceived then for the first time.

2. Unremembered; lost to memory.
   • 1869, John H. Hanson, Poems of Rev. John H. Hanson, page 81:

     Perchance the unmember'd, unmemorial'd mass Of cold corruption that I tread upon May be a seraph with wild waving wings, And eyes whose intellectual fire outbeams The material splendors of the blue concave,

   • 1995, Ortwin de Graef, Titanic Light: Paul de Man's Post-romanticism, 1960-1969, page 14:

     But the source is precisely that point where the rememberable and the immemorial (the sacred) meet, and the danger is thus that in remembering the source, the demigod may be tempted to transgress his earthly limits and aspire to know what cannot be recalled, to remember what is necessarily unmembered in the mediating time of memory.

   • 2022, Michael J. Tan Creti, On Giving My Word:

     To a life unmembered, she is saying, "I will remember. I will remember as long as I can make art."