unattempted
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In Vienna, Prof. Maximilian Langster, famed mesmerist, advertised that he would perform feats of hypnotism "hitherto unattempted."
From Time Magazine Archive
In Locrine he produced a tragedy in heroic couplets—a thing probably unattempted since the age of Dryden.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" by Various
It is true that this Inquiry is narrowed almost to a single point: But general criticism is as uninstructive as it is easy: Shakespeare deserves to be considered in detail;—a task hitherto unattempted.
From Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare by Smith, David Nichol
But the death of Stafford was too important a stroke of party to be left unattempted by any expedient, however extraordinary.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell by Hume, David
David Copperfield has been translated into German, with the peculiarities of speech of the different classes of characters unattempted.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various
