The unconceivableness of something they find in one, throws men violently into the contrary hypothesis, though altogether as unintelligible. Locke. UNCONCERN', n. s. S Both noun subUNCONCERNED, adj. stantives signify negUNCONCERN EDLY, adv. ligence; want of inUNCONCERN EDNESS, n. s. terest; freedom from UNCONCERN'ING, adj. anxiety or perturbation unconcerned, having, or feeling no interest or anxiety: the adverb corresponding : unconcerning is uninteresting. Things impossible in their nature, or unconcerning to us, cannot beget it. Decay of Piety. You called me into all your joys, and gave me An equal share; and in this depth of misery Can I be unconcerned? Denham's Sophy. Death was denounced, that frightful sound, Which even the best can hardly bear: He took the summons, void of fear, And unconcernedly cast his eyes around, As if to find and dare the griesly challenger. Dryden. This science of medals, which is charged with so many unconcerning parts of knowledge, and built on such mean materials, appears ridiculous to those that have not examined it. UNCONCLU ́DENT, adj. Addison on Medals. Not decisive; inferring no plain or certain conclusion or consequence. Our arguments are inevident and unconcludent. Hale. Either may be much more probably maintained than hitherto, as against the unaccurateness and the unconcludingness of the analytical experiments vulgarly relied on. Boyle. He makes his understanding only the warehouse of other men's false and unconcluding reasonings, rather than a repository of truth for his own use. Locke. UNCONCOCTED, adj. Not digested; not ted. matured. Blackmore. Hooker. Milton. Not unconform to other shining globes. The moral goodness or evil of men's actions, which consists in their conformity or unconformity to right reason must be eternal, necessary, and unchangeable. South. UNCONFUSED, adj. Į Distinct; free from UNCONFUSEDLY, adv. confusion. It is more distinct and unconfused than the sensitive memory. Hale. Every one finds that he knows when any idea is in his understanding, and that, when more than one are there, he knows them, distinctly and unconfusedly, from one another. Locke. UNCONFUTABLE, adj. Irrefragable; not to be convicted of error. One political argument they boasted of as unconfutable, that from the marriages of ecclesiasticks would ensue poverty in many of the children, and thence a disgrace and burden to the church. Sprat. UNCONGEAL'ED, adj. Not concreted by cold. By exposing wine, after four months digestion in horse-dung, unto the extremity of cold, the aqueous parts will freeze, but the spirit retire, and be found uncongealed in the centre. Browne. UNCONNECT'ED, adj. Not coherent; not joined by proper transitions or dependence of parts. Those who contemplate only the fragments broken off from any science, dispersed in short unconnected discourses, can never survey an entire body of truth. Watts. UNCONNI'VING, adj. Not forbearing penal notice. To that hideous place not so confined, By rigour unconniving; but that oft, Leaving my dolorous prison, I enjoy Large liberty, to round this globe of earth. UNCONQUERABLE, adj. UNCONQUERABLY, adv. UNCONQUERED, adj. Milton. Not to be subdued; insuperable; invincible: the adverb corresponding: unconquered is not subdued; not overcome. These brothers had a-while served the king of Pontus; and in all his affairs, especially of war, whereunto they were only apt, they had shewed as unconquered courage, so a rude faithfulness. Sidney Louis was darting his thunder on the Alps, and causing his enemies to feel the force of his unconquera Dryden. ble arms. Shakspeare. Love yourself; and, in that love, inconsistent. It seemeth a thing unconsonant, that the world should honour any other as the Saviour, but him whom it honoureth as the Creator of the world. Hooker. UNCON'STANT, adj. Fr. inconstant; Lat. inconstans. Fickle; not steady; changeable. Inconstant is more usual. More unconstant than the wind; who woos ing freedom from constraint; ease. adverb corresponding: uncontroled is unresisted; unopposed; unrefuted: the adverb agreeing. That Julius Cæsar was so born is an uncontrouled report. Hayward. Mankind avert killing, and being killed; but, when the phantasm honour has once possessed the mind, no reluctance of humanity is able to make head against it; but it commands uncontrouledly. Decay of Piety. Gaza mourns, And all that band them to resist Milton. Uncontroulably, and under general consent, many opinions are passant, which, upon due examination, admit of doubt. Browne. UNCONVERS'ABLE, adj. Not suitable to conversation; not social. Faith and devotion are traduced and ridiculed, as morose unconversable qualities. Rogers. UNCONVERTED, adj. Not converted: not persuaded of the truth of Christianity. Salvation belongeth unto none, but such as call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; which nations as yet unconverted neither do, nor possibly can do, till they believe. Hooker. The apostle reminds the Ephesians of the guilt and misery of their former unconverted estate, when aliens from the commonwealth of Israel. Rogers. UNCONVINCED, adj. Not convinced. those who are to propagate religion, or philosophy, A way not to be introduced into the seminaries of amongst the ignorant and unconvinced. UNCORRECTED, adj South. lished to exactness. Such a patron has frankly, generously, and unconstrainedly relieved me. Mr. Dryden writ more like a scholar; and, though the greatest master of poetry, he wanted that easiness, that air of freedom and unconstraint, which is more sensibly to be perceived than described. Felton. UNCONSULTING, adj. Latin inconsultus. Heady; rash; improvident. It was the fair Zelmane, Plexirtus's daughter, whom unconsulting affection, unfortunately born to mewards, had made borrow so much of her natural modesty, as to leave her more decent raiments. UNCONSUM'ED, adj. Not wasted; not destroyed by any wasting power. Hope never comes, That comes to all, but torture without end With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed. Sidney. Milton. Locke. Inaccurate; not po I have written this too hastily and too loosely: it comes out from the first draught, and uncorrected. UNCORRUPT, adj. Dryden. Honest; upright; not tainted with wickedness; not influenced by iniqui A very uncouth sight was to behold, How he did fashion his untoward pace For as he forward moved his footing old, So backward still was turned his wrinkled face. Spen. To deny himself in the lesser instances, that so when the greater come, they may not have the disadvantage of uncouthness, and perfect strangeness, to enhance their difficulty, must be acknowledged reasonable. Decay of Piety. Venetians do not more uncouthly ride, Tempt me with such affrights no more, Lest what I made I uncreate. How hast thou disturbed Carew. Heaven's blessed peace, and into nature brought Of thy rebellion? Milton. Fr. onction. The act of anointing; the unguent or ointment used; any thing softening or lenitive: unctuous is oily; fat; clammy: unctuosity and unctuousness mean fatness; oiliness; greasiness. The unction of the tabernacle, the table, the laver, the altar of God, with all the instruments appertaining thereunto, made them for ever holy. Hooker. Shakspeare. Dry up thy harrowed veins, and plough-torn leas, A wandering fire, Browne's Vulgar Errours. A great degree of unctuousness is not necessary to the production of the like effects. Boyle. UNCTION, in matters of religion, is used for the character conferred on sacred things by anointing them with oil. Unctions were very frequent among the Hebrews. They anointed both their kings and high priests at the ceremony of their inauguration. They also anointed the sacred vessels of the tabernacle and temple, to sanctify and consecrate them to the service of God. The unction of kings is supposed to be a ceremony introduced very late among the Christian princes. It is said that none of the emperors were ever anointed before Justinian or Justin. The emperors of Germany took the practice from those of the eastern empire: king Pepin of France was the first who received the unction. In the ancient Christian church, unction The next paragraph proves that the idea we have of always accompanied the ceremonies of baptism and God is God himself; it being something, as he says, uncreated. UNCREDITABLENESS, n. s. putation. Locke. Want of re this of the unsaid is, that they part devours the Decay of Piety. UNCROPPED, adj. Not cropped; not ga thered. confirmation. Extreme unction, or the anointing persons in the article of death, was also practised by Christians at a very early period, in compliance with the precept of St. James, chap. v., 14th and 15th verses; and this extreme unction the Romish It is administered to none but such as are affected church has advanced to the dignity of a sacrament. with some mortal disease, or in a decrepit age. It nals. The parts to be anointed are, the eyes, the is refused to impenitent persons, as also to crimiears, the nostrils, the mouth, the hands, the feet, and the reins. The laity are anointed in the palms of the hands, but priests on the back of it; because the palms of their hands have been already consecrated by ordination. The oil with which the sick person is anointed represents the grace of God, which is poured down into the soul, and the prayer used at the time of anointing expresses the remis sion of sins thereby granted to the sick person, for the prayer is this: By this holy unction, and his own most pious mercy, may the Almighty God forgive thee whatever sins thou hast committed by the sight,' when the eyes are anointed; by the hearing, when the ears are anointed; and so of the other senses. UNCUL'LED, adj. Not gathered. A sweaty reaper from his tillage brought First fruits, the green ear, and the yellow sheaf, Unculled, as came to hand. Milton's Paradise Lost. UNCULPABLE, adj. Not blameable. Those canons do bind, as they are edicts of nature; which the Jews observing as yet unwritten, and thereby framing such church orders, as in their law were not prescribed, are notwithstanding in that respect unculpable. Hooker. UNCULTIVATED, adj. Lat. incultus. Not cultivated; not improved by tillage. Roscommon. The first tragedians found that serious stile Too grave for their uncultivated age. UNCUMBERED, adj. Not burdened; not embarrassed. With frank, and with uncurbed plainness, Tell us the Dauphin's mind. Shakspeare. Henry V. UNCURL', v. a. & v. n. To loose from ringlets, or convolutions: free from ringlets. My fleece of woolly hair now uncurls, Even as an adder, when she doth unroll To do some fatal execution. Shak. Titus Andronicus. With honest faces, though uncurled hair. Dryden. And snakes uncurled hang listening round their heads. Pope. UNCURRENT, adj. Not current; not passing in common payment. Your voice, like a piece of uncurrent gold, is not cracked within the ring. Shakspeare. Hamlet. UNCURSE', v. a. To free from any exeUNCURST', adj. Scration; not execrated. Uncurse their souls; their peace is made With head, and not with hands. Shak. Richard II. Sir John Hotham unreproached, unthreatened, uncursed by any language or secret imprecation of mine, not long after pays his own and his eldest son's heads. King Charles. Heaven sure has kept this spot of earth uncurst, To shew how all things were created first. UNCUT, adj. Not cut. Waller. We must resign! heaven his great soul doth claim, In storms as loud as his immortal fame ; His dying groans, his last breath shake our isle, And trees uncut fall for his funeral pile. Waller. A nail uncut, and head uncombed she loves; And would draw on jack-boots as soon as gloves. Young. UNDAM', v. a. To open; free from the restraint of mounds. When the fiery suns too fiercely play. And shrivelled herbs on withering stems decay; The wary ploughman, on the mountain's brow, Undams his watery stores. Dryden's Georgicks. UNDAM'AGED, adj. Not made worse; not impaired. How fierce in fight, with courage undecayed! The flames of friends and lovers cease to grow; responding. Pope. To set free from the influence of a fallacy: the adjectives both cor All men will try, and hope to write as well, And not without much pains be undeceived. Roscom. It serves for more certain computation, by how much it is a larger and more comprehensive period, and under a more undeceivable calculation. Holder on Time. So far as truth gets round in the world, so far sin loses it. Christ saves the world by undeceiving it. South. UNDECEMVIR, a magistrate among the ancient Athenians, who had ten other colleagues or associates joined with him in the same commission. They took care of the apprehending of criminals, secured them in the hands of justice, and, when they were condemned, took them again into custody, that the sentence might be executed on them. They were chosen by the tribes, each tribe naming its own; and as the number of the tribes after Calisthenes was but ten, which made ten members, a scribe or notary was added, which made the number eleven. UNDECLINED, adj. Not grammatically va ried by termination; not deviating. Sandy's Par. In his track my wary feet have stept; His undeclined ways precisely kept. UNDED'ICATED, adj. Not consecrated or devoted; not inscribed to a patron. I should let this book come forth undedicated, were it not that I look upon this dedication as a duty. Boyle. UNDEED'ED, adj. Not signalised by action. My sword, with an unbattered edge, I sheath again undeeded. Shakspeare. Macbeth. UNDEFACED, adj. Not deprived of its form; not disfigured. Those arms, which for nine centuries had braved Granville. son doth necess lar determinatio UNDENIA UNDENIABLY corresponds. That age which it is, hath not dimin undeniable verity. It is undeniably fou holy writ. UNDEPLOR'ED Rise, wretched widov Permit my ghost to pass But rise prepared to mo UNDEPRAVED, ac Knowledge dwelt in our in the sun; it is now hid flint. UNDEPRIVED, adj. He, undeprived, his benefice UN'DER, prep. Sax. u Danish, and Teut. under; Be of subjection or pupilage to; a less degree than; for or wit show of; in a state of oppressio UNDEFI'ED, adj. Not set at defiance; not being liable to, or limited, or affe challenged. False traitor, thou broken hast The law of arms, to strike foe undefied. Spenser. UNDEFIL'ED, adj. Not polluted; not vitiated; by. Ye purpose to keep under the chil bond-men and bond-women. 2C Under this head may come in the and wars betwixt popes and the secular As they went under sail by him, they hands and made their prayers. Medicines take effect sometimes under, a above, the natural proportion of their virtu There is none but he, Whose being I do fear, and under him My genius rebuked, as Antony's was by Cæsa I will fight Against my cankered country with the spleen Of all the under fiends. Id. Cori Fruit put in bottles, and the bottles let dow. wells under water, will keep long. Bacon's Nat.. To those that live. Under thy care good rules and patterns give. Denk Be gathered now ye waters under heaven. Milto: After all, they have not been able to give any cons derable comfort to the mind, under any of the grea Tillotson. pressures of this life. When good Saturn, banished from above, Was driven to hell, the world was under Jove. |