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undeeded

undeeded adjective: not transferred by deed.

Adjective

undeeded (not comparable)

  1. Not transferred by deed.
    • undeeded land
    • First, has the legislature of the territory attempted to make such undeeded lots, pending contest, subject to taxation?1899, “Topeka Commercial Security Co. et. al. v. McPherson et. al.”, in The Pacific Reporter, volume 54, page 489
  2. (obsolete, poetic) Not made famous or marked by any great action.
    • Or else my sword, with an unbatter'd edge, I sheathe again undeeded.c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
    • The hand of truthful Time, which obscures the rays of the undeeded sceptre, and dulls the whiteness of the robe of hereditary ermine, approaches but to tinge with brighter hue the green and living freshness of the poet's, or the hero's laurel!1842, “Lusitania Illustrata”, in Monthly Review; Or, New Literary Journal, page 506

Examples of undeeded in a sentence

  • In North Elba, the Hendersons, Jeffersons, Carasaws, Wortses, Fraziers, Halls, Thompsons, and Browns all chose to farm on undeeded land.2023, Amy Godine, The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier:
  • Now their deeds are left undeeded, Buried 'neath unhallowed laws; Now their names are only needed As a watchword of applause.1847, Robert Naismith, “The Covenanters”, in Necropolis, and Other Poems, page 80:
  • No return will ever come from undeeded lust in proposal2011, Kelechukwu Brnfre, Les Cinquantes Sonnets: The Fifty Sonnets, page 39:

Origin of undeeded

From un- + deeded.

Questions about undeeded

What does undeeded mean?
Undeeded means not transferred by deed.
How do you use undeeded in a sentence?
In North Elba, the Hendersons, Jeffersons, Carasaws, Wortses, Fraziers, Halls, Thompsons, and Browns all chose to farm on undeeded land.
What part of speech is undeeded?
Undeeded is an adjective.

Words near undeeded in the dictionary

  1. undeduced
  2. undeducible
  3. undeducted
  4. undeductive
  5. undee
  6. undeeded
  7. undeemed
  8. undeep
  9. undeerlike
  10. undef
  11. undefaceable

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