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

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

I would rather have left this thing unattempted than to have undertaken it in partnership with any man whom I felt I had to watch.

From Then I'll Come Back to You by Evans, Larry

Improvements, which adequate capital would have enabled, him to effect, were left either altogether unattempted, or in an imperfect state, resembling neglect, though, in reality, the result of poverty.

From Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by Carleton, William

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