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

All those enquiries, which from that time that human nature became the fashionable study have been made sometimes with nice discernment, but often with idle subtilty, were yet unattempted.

From Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare by Smith, David Nichol

To contend that because a great undertaking has remained unattempted for a long series of years, therefore it is impracticable, is to put a stop to all improvement.

From A Succinct View of the Importance and Practicability of Forming a Ship Canal across the Isthmus of Panama by Hill, H. R.

I care not to be cumbered on my way Through dead Magellan's unattempted dream With chains and prisoners.

From Collected Poems Volume One by Noyes, Alfred

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