unsight

American  

[uhn-sahyt] / ʌnˈsaɪt /

adjective

1. without inspection or examination.

   to buy a thing unsight, unseen.

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Etymology

Origin of unsight

1615–25; apparently un- ¹ + sight, for expected unsighted

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Example Sentences

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unsight

He relies on the cover of the wall to calibrate his kicks and unsight the keeper.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 19, 2016

Abe Lincoln laughed and said: "Mary would be like the man who traded horses unsight and unseem and drew a saw horse."

From A Man for the Ages A Story of the Builders of Democracy by John Wolcott Adams

If you want to bid unsight unseen, name your figure.”

From Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car by Allen Chapman

You see, I traded my farm over in Vermont for five hundred acres o' this sheet lightnin', unsight an' unseen.

From A Man for the Ages A Story of the Builders of Democracy by John Wolcott Adams

Half nab, at a venture, unsight, unseen, hit or miss.

From The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew King of the Beggars; containing his Life, a Dictionary of the Cant Language, and many Entertaining Particulars of that Extraordinary Man by Unknown

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