undeeded

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ deeded.

Adjective

undeeded (not comparable)

1. (law) Not transferred by deed.
   • 1899, “Topeka Commercial Security Co. et. al. v. McPherson et. al.”, in The Pacific Reporter, volume 54, page 489:

     First, has the legislature of the territory attempted to make such undeeded lots, pending contest, subject to taxation?

   • 1974, Statement of Information: Hearings Before the Committee on the Judiciary, page 81:

     It should be noted that neither of these letters written by the White House staff referred to any portion of the undeeded papers as a gift to the United States, nor do they indicate an intent at that time to treat any portion of those papers as a gift.

   • 2023, Amy Godine, The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier:

     In North Elba, the Hendersons, Jeffersons, Carasaws, Wortses, Fraziers, Halls, Thompsons, and Browns all chose to farm on undeeded land.

   undeeded land

2. (obsolete or poetic) Not made famous or marked by any great action.
   • 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, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene vi]:

     Or else my sword, with an unbatter'd edge, I sheathe again undeeded.

   • 1842, “Lusitania Illustrata”, in Monthly Review; Or, New Literary Journal, page 506:

     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!

   • 1847, Robert Naismith, “The Covenanters”, in Necropolis, and Other Poems, page 80:

     Now their deeds are left undeeded, Buried 'neath unhallowed laws; Now their names are only needed As a watchword of applause.

   • 2011, Kelechukwu Brnfre, Les Cinquantes Sonnets: The Fifty Sonnets, page 39:

     No return will ever come from undeeded lust in proposal

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “undeeded”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)