A quick Google Books search turn up, for example, this passage from The Scots Magazine of September 1799: I suspect that this is an artefact of the limited historical search available to the OED's editors at the time. 320 The representation of unchartered, or at least unincorporated boroughs. (Baltimore) 2 19/2 Those planters.who should place confidence in the paper of unchartered banks.ġ818 H. 215 The unchartered wind that ‘bloweth where it listeth’.ġ812 Weekly Reg. Not authorized as by the terms of a charter irregular, lawless") to be older than the literal one ("Not furnished with a charter not formally privileged or constituted"):ġ805 Wordsworth Ode to Duty 37 Me this unchartered freedom tires.ġ863 C. The OED's entry for unchartered - also not updated since 1921 - finds the metaphorical sense (" fig. They were one of the most popular comedy teams of a decade that knew several great ones, and yet today they are almost unknown, except to cinephiles who make a habit of exploring the uncharted overnight territory of the Turner Classic Movies channel. The photographs were a vivid reminder of the uncharted territory the Vatican has entered, and the potential trouble it could bring.īERT WHEELER and Robert Woolsey made 21 feature films together (and a couple separately) between 19. Swing Justice Anthony Kennedy grumbled about “ uncharted waters,” and the fuddy-duddies seemed to be looking for excuses not to make a sweeping ruling.īut the reality of a pope and an emeritus pope living in his shadow will probably be more complicated, a fact driven home with the recent publication in an Italian gossip magazine of paparazzi-style photos of the 85-year-old Benedict strolling with his personal secretary through the private gardens of his temporary home at Castel Gandolfo. By default, the Fed has resorted to a radical, uncharted spree of money printing. So the Main Street economy is failing while Washington is piling a soaring debt burden on our descendants, unable to rein in either the warfare state or the welfare state or raise the taxes needed to pay the nation’s bills. “A while back it was Myspace, and then it was Facebook, and then it was sexting, and now it’s Twitter.”
“It’s hard to know how it affects us other than to say we’re very proud.Īt Torrington Middle School, where the two victims are in eighth grade, administrators also called an assembly to warn against online “name-calling.” “It’s not completely uncharted territory, but it’s new,” Ms. So, Father Malone, is it an article of faith that this new papacy is good for the Jesuits? “It’s uncharted territory,” he said, sipping the first of several cups of coffee. Thus of the most recent half-a-dozen uses of uncharted in the NYT, all are metaphorical and four modify territory :
So gradually, the obvious cloud of metaphorical usages have taken over - very often in the collocation uncharted territory. Of course, in the first few years of the 20th century there were still large areas of the earth's surface "of which there is not map or chart" - a century later, we have an excellent idea of what's where on Mars, and this spring's layout of tomato plants in your back garden may or may not be available from Google Maps, but it's certainly known to some satellite survey or another. Monthly July 404 To establish the latitude and longitude of uncharted places.Īnd a check with the Google Ngram viewer suggests that the OED editor who wrote "Common in recent use" got it exactly right, at least if 0.6 per million counts as common: (Common in recent use.)", with the earliest substantive citation asġ895 Pop. In 1921, the OED glossed uncharted as "Of which there is not map or chart. Smitha Mundasad, " Babies' brains to be mapped in the womb and after birth", BBC News :īy the time a baby takes its first breath many of the key pathways between nerves have already been made.Īnd some of these will help determine how a baby thinks or sees the world, and may have a role to play in the development of conditions such as autism, scientists say.īut how this rich neural network assembles in the baby before birth is relatively unchartered territory.
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