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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Unenterit, p.p. Also: unenteret, -ed, -entrit, onenterit, -interit. [e.m.E. vnentred (1548), unenter'd (Milton); Enter v.]

1. Not recorded in writing in an account-book or register.(a) 1482 Edinb. Chart. 168.
The grete custumys and dewiteis … enterit in the tovnis bukis, togidder with the eschete of the sammyn quhare it beis fundin vnenterit of ony vnfremennis 1493 Acta Conc. I 317/1.
In the payment … of … anchorage, custumez & dewitez of ther schipis [etc.] quhilkis thai suld haue entrit efter the forme of the infeftmentis … incurring the panis contenit therintill that is to say to here the hale gudis vnentrit eschettit 1525 (c1580) Edinb. B. Rec. I 223.
Geir beand vpoun the schoir of Leith as he alledgit vnentrit in the townis buikis(b) 1530 M. Works Acc. (ed.) I 51.
For xxxviii poyntis pikkis scharping the last wolk … that ves forȝet onenterit

2. That has not entered (to a place). 1506 Edinb. Chart. 189.
Throw selling of strangearis gudis in Leyth vnenterit to our Burgh of Edinburgh 1598 Edinb. B. Rec. V 238.
He sall executt the touns statutes aganis unfriemen, aganis the allowing of unfrie guids, guids unenterit [etc.]

3. Not formally admitted (to lands, privileges, etc.). Also, to ly out unenterit (Ly v. 9 a).(a) 1513 Lennox Mun. 208.
The tennentis of … oure said cousingis landis … to ansuer and obey him of the malis … and [the sheriffs] to poynd and distrinȝe for the samyn, nochtstanding oure said cousing be vnenterit thairto befor the said terme of Mertimes 1563 Lennox Mun. 246.
Touchand my tenendes that is vnenteret c1575 Balfour Pract. 257.
Gif ane air of landis be of lauchful age, and thairfoir havand powar to enter to his landis, lyis out un-enterit to the samin, the landis ar in non-entres all the time and space that he lyis out unenterit, and micht have enterit thairto 1593 Acts IV 38/2.
Quhilk gevis occasioun to … the saidis fewaris to ly out vnenterit to thair saidis landis 1677 Fountainhall in M. P. Brown Suppl. Decis. III 146.
Anent lying out unentered(b) 1544–5 Perth Guildry 224 (13 Feb.).
All gild bretheris airis and vtheris foirsaid that postponis and will nocht intir to the fredome of gild … tobe suorne thairto quhille the tyme of thair deces on interit 1549 Perth Hammermen 71.
Swa restis in Dioneis Caveris hands fyve markis quhilk he will pay incontenent, and in Johne Allanis handis ane prenteis onenterit