in or unforsaken, than as they are reconcileable with sincere endeavours to forsake them. Hammond's Fundamentals. as the effects of an unfriendliness in nature or fortune to your particular attempt. Boyle. This fear is not that servile dread, which flies from UNFORTIFIED, adj. Not secured by walls God as an hostile unfriendly being, delighting in the or bulwarks. Shaksp. It shews a will most incorrect to heaven; A heart unfortified, a mind impatient; An understanding simple, and unschooled. Their weak heads, like towns unfortified, 'Twixt sense and nonsense daily change their side. Pope. UNFORTUNATE, adj. Not successful; unUNFORTUNATELY, adv. prosperous; wanting UNFORTUNATENESS, n.s.luck; unhappy: the adverb and noun substantive corresponding. Unconsulting affection unfortunately born to mewards, made Zelmane borrow so much of her natural modesty, as to leave her more decent raiments. Sidney. O me, the only subject of the destinies displeasure, whose greatest fortunateness is more unfortunate than my sister's greatest unfortunateness. Id. Vindictive persons live the life of witches, who, as they are mischievous, end unfortunate. Bacon. She kept her countenance when the lid, removed, Disclosed the heart unfortunately loved. Dryden. misery of his creatures. Rogers. picked. We wondered why she kept her fruit so long: For whom so late the ungathered apples hung. Dryden. UNGEN'ERATED, adj. Unbegotten; hav ing no beginning. Millions of souls must have been ungenerated, and have had no being. Raleigh. UNGEN ERATIVE, adj. Begetting nothing. He is a motion ungenerative, that 's infallible. Shakspeare. UNGEN'EROUS, adj. Not noble; not ingenuous; not liberal. The victor never will impose on Cato Ungenerous terms. His enemies confess The virtues of humanity are Cæsar's. Addison. To look into letters already opened or dropped is held an ungenerous act. Pope. UNGENIAL, adj. Not kind or favorable to Vicious, ungentle, foolishly blunt, unkind. Love, to thee I sacrifice All my ungentle thoughts. Tusser. Shakspeare. Id. Denham's Sophy. UNGENTLEMANLY, adj. Illiberal; not becoming a gentleman. The demeanor of those under Waller was much more ungentlemanly and barbarous. Clarendon. This he contradicts in the almanack published for the present year, and in an ungentlemanly manner. Swift. UNGER (John Frederick), secretary to the duke of Brunswick, was born in 1716, and died at Brunswick in 1781. He published a tract On the Nature of the Electric Fluid, which was crowned by the Academy of Sciences at Berlin in 1745; and a work On the Price of Corn, on its Sale, on its Variations, and on the influence which it has on the most important Affairs of Human Life, Gottingen, 1752. Unger invented in 1749 a self-acting machine for noting down any tune as it is played on the harpsichord; and an artist of Berlin executed this piece of mechanism, of which a description was inserted in the Memoirs of the Academy of Berlin for 1771. The author himself published at Brunswick, in 1774, a Circumstantial Description of his Invention, and of the Manner in which he discovered it, 4to. UNGEOMETRICAL, adj. Not agreeable to the laws of geometry. All the attempts before Sir Isaac Newton, to explain the regular appearances of nature, were ungeometrical, and all of them inconsistent and unintelligible. Cheyne. UNGHVAR, a palatinate in the north-east of Hungary, adjacent to Poland, and bounded on the west and south by the palatinate of Semplin. It is watered by the rivers Ungh, Laborza, and Latorza, and in the north contains a portion of the Caryathian mountains, called Beszked. Its area is 1270 square miles; its population about 80,000. The capital of the same name stands on the Ungh, and contains about 5000 inhabitants. UNGILD'ED, adj. Not overlaid with gold. You, who each day can theatres behold, Like Nero's palace, shining all with gold, Our mean ungilded stage will scorn. UNGIRD', v.a. To loose any thing bound with a girdle. Dryden. lusts! Tillotson. Thus men ungodded may to places rise, And sects may be preferred without disguise. Dryden. UNGOR'ED, adj. Unwounded; unhurt. I stand aloof, and will no reconcilement ; "Till, by some elder musters of known honour, I have a voice and precedent of peace, To keep my name ungored. Shakspeare. Hamlet. UNGORG'ED, adj. Not filled; not sated. The hell-hounds, as ungorged with flesh and blood, Pursue their prey. Dryden. UNGOT', adj. Not gained; not acquired; not begotten. His loins yet full of ungot princes; all His glory in the bud. UNGOVERNED, adj.} UNGOV'ERNABLE. strained; Waller. Being without go vernment; unre Shaksp. Milton. licentious not to be ruled; wild. He was free from any rough, ungovernable passions, which hurry men on to say and do very offensive things. Atterbury. UNGRACEFUL, adj. Wanting elegance or UNGRACE FULNESS, n. s.beauty: the noun subUNGRA'CIOUS, adj. Sstantive corresponds: ungracious is, offensive; unpleasing; hence hateful; wicked; odious. He, catching hold of her ungracious tongue, Thereon an iron lock did fasten firm and strong. Spenser They did not except against the persons of any, though several were most ungracious to them. Clarendon. Raphael answered heaven, Nor are thy lips ungraceful, sire of men. Milton To the gods alone Our future offspring, and our wives are known: The audacious strumpet and ungracious son. Dryden, To attempt the putting another genius upon him, will be labour in vain; and what is so plaistered on will have always hanging to it an ungracefulness of con straint. Locke. UNGRANT'ED, adj. Not given; not yielded; not bestowed. This only from your goodness let me gain, And this ungranted, all rewards are vain. Dryden. UNGRATEFUL, adj. Making no returns, UNGRATE FULLY, adv. or making ill returns UNGRATE FULNESS, n. s. Sfor kindness: the ad verb and noun substantive corresponding. Can I, without the detestable stain of ungratefulness abstain from loving him, who, far exceeding the beau tifulness of his shape with the beautifulness of his mind, is content so to abase himself as to become Dametas's servant for my sake? Sidney. Most when driven by winds, the flaming storm Of the long fles destroys the beauteous form; Is not so heinous now, foretasted fruit, UNHAND', v. a. I To loose from the hand: Unhand men, traitors. Denham's Sophy. UNHAND'SOME, adj. UNHAND'SOMELY, adv. UNHAND'SOMENESS, N. S. Ungraceful; not beautiful; disingenuous: the adverb and noun substantive corresponding. I was glad I had done so good a deed for a gentlewoman not unhandsome, whom before I had in like sort helped. Sidney. The ruined churches are so unhandsomely patched and thatched, that men do even shun the places for the uncomeliness thereof. Spenser. Be not troublesome to thyself, or to others, by unhandsomeness or uncleanness. Taylor. UNHANG'ED, adj. Not put to death by the gallows. There live not three good men unhanged in England. Shakspeare. UNHAP', n. s. Misluck; ill fortune. She visited that place, where first she was so happy as to see the cause of her unhap. Sidney. UNHAPPIED. This word seems a participle from unhappy, which yet is never used as a verb. Made unhappy. You have misled a prince, A happy gentleman in blood and lineament, tives correspond. Misery; infelicity; misfortune; mischievous trick: the deriva You hold a fair assembly; you do well, lord, You are a churchman, or I'll tell you, cardinal, I should judge now most unhappily. Shakspeare. She hath often dreamed of unhappiness, and waked herself with laughing. I unweeting have offended, Unhappily deceived. Id. Milton's Paradise Lost. Desire of wandering this unhappy morn. Milton. The real foundation of our unhappiness would be laid in our reason, and we should be more miserable than the beasts, by how much we have a quicker apprehen sion. Tillotson. Messengers Milton. Of strong prevailment in unhardened youth. Shakspeare. Timorous and loth, with novice modesty; The wisest, unexperienced, will be ever Irresolute, unhardy, unadventurous. UNHARM'ED, adj. Unhurt; not injured: UNHARM'FUL. Sinnoxious; innocent. Themselves unharmful, let them live unharmed Their jaws disabled, and their claws disarmed. Dryd. Though great light be insufferable to our eyes, yet the highest degree of darkness does not disease them; for, causing no disorderly motion, it leaves that curious organ unharmed. Locke. UNHARMONIOUS, adj. Not symmetrical; disproportionate. Those pure, immortal elements, that know No gross, no unharmonious mixture foul, Eject him, tainted now, and purge him off. Milton. His thoughts are improper to his subject, his expressions unworthy of his thoughts, or the turn of both is unharmonious. Dryden. UNHAR'NESS, v. a. To loose from traces. The sweating steers unharnessed from the yoke, Bring back the crooked plough. Dryden. I thought the rousing style I wrote in might prove unhopeful way to procure somewhat considerable from those great masters of chymical arcana. Graunt. Bogk. No body would have a child crammed at breakfast, who would not have him dull and unhealthy. Locke. UNHEARD', adj. Not perceived by the ear; unknown; taking of as a preposition. For the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their children's cries unheard. Milton. What pangs I feel, unpitied and unheard! Dryden. Free from hopes or fears, in humble ease, Unheard of may I live, and die in peace! Granville. UNHEART', v. a. To discourage; depress. To bite his lip, And hum at good Cominius, much unhearts me. Shakspeare. UNHEATED, adj. Not made hot. Neither salts, nor the distilled spirits of them, can penetrate the narrow pores of unheated glass. Boyle. Disregarded; not thought worthy of notice; escaping notice: unheedful is not cautious; negligent; pre UNHEED'ED, adj. UNHEED'FUL, UNHEEDING, UNHEEDY. cipitate the meaning also of the other adjectives. 'Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste: Wings, and no eyes, figure unheedy haste. He of his fatal guile gave proof unheeded. I have not often seen him; if I did, Shaksp. Milton. He passed unmarked by my unheeding eyes. Dryden. The triumph ceased-tears gushed from every eye, The world's great victor passed unheeded by. Pope. UNHELP'ED, adj. Į Unassisted; having no auxiliary; unsupported : UNHELPFUL. affording no support. I bewail good Glo'ster's case With sad, unhelpful tears. Shakspeare. Henry VII. Unhelped I am, who pitied the distressed, And, none oppressing, am by all oppressed. Dryden. UNHEWN', part. adj. Not hewn. In occasions of merriment, this rough-cast, unhewn poetry, was instead of stage-plays. Dryden. UNHINGE', v. a. To throw from the hinges; displace by violence. Rather than not accomplish my revenge, Just or unjust, I would the world unhinge. Waller. For want of cement, ribs of rock, disjoined Without an earthquake, from their base would start, And hills unhinged from their deep roots depart. Blackmore. Whence your unhoped for safety may be wrought. Heaven has inspired me with a sudden thought, Dryden. UNHORSE', v.a. To beat from a horse; throw from the saddle. The emperor rescued a noble gentleman, whom, horsed and sore wounded, the enemy was ready to have slain. Knolles On a fourth he flies, and him unhorses too. Daniel. UNHOSPITABLE, adj. Lat. inhospitalis. Affording no kindness or entertainment to strangers; cruel; barbarous. The cruel nation, covetous of prey, Stained with my blood the' unhospitable coast. Dr. UNHOSTILE, adj. Not belonging to an enemy. The high-prancing steeds Spurn their dismounted riders; they expire Indignant, by unhostile wounds destroyed. Philips. You hope the duke will return no more, or you ima gine me too unhurtful an opposite. Shakspeare. Of fifteen hundred, eight hundred were slain in the field; and, of the remaining seven hundred, two men only came off unhurt. Bacon's War with Spain. Flames unhurtful, hovering, dance in air. Blackmore. We laugh at others as innocently and as unhurtfully as at ourselves. Pope to Sujt. U'NICORN, n.s. Lat. unicornis, unus and corn. A beast, or bird, real or fabulous, that has only one horn. found thee. Wert thou the unicorn, pride and wrath would con Shakspeare. Timon. Some unicorns we will allow even among insects, as those nasicornous beetles described by Muffetus. Browne. Of the unicorn bird, the principal marks are these, headed and footed like the dunghill cock, tailed like a goose, horned on his forehead, with some likeness as the unicorn is pictured; spurred on his wings, bigger than, a swan. Grew. The UNICORN is thought to be the same with the rhinoceros. See RHINOCEROS. Sparmann informs us that the figure of the unicorn described by the ancients has been found delineated by the Snese Hottentots on the plain surface of a rock in Caffraria; and therefore conjectures that such an animal either does exist at present in the internal parts of Africa, or at least once did so. Father Lobo affirms that he has seen it. UNICORN FISH. See MONODON. UNIFORM, adj. Lat. unus and forma. UNIFORMITY, n. s. Keeping its tenor; similar U'NIFORMLY, adv. to itself; conformable to one rule: the noun substantive and adverb correspond. The only doubt is about the manner of their unity, how far churches are bound to be uniform in their ceremonies, and what way they ought to take for that purpose. Hooker. Queen Elizabeth was remarkable for that steadiness and uniformity which ran through all her actions. Addison. The capillamenta of the nerves are each of them solid and uniform; and the vibrating motion of the æthereal medium may be propagated along them from one end to the other uniformly, and without interruption. Newton's Opticks. UNIFORMITY, regularity, a similitude or resemblance between the parts of a whole. Such is that we meet with in figures of many sides, and angles respectively equal, and answerable to each other. A late ingenious author makes beauty to consist in uniformity, joined or combined with variety. Where the uniformity is equal, in two objects, the beauty, he contends, is as the variety; and, where the variety is equal, the beauty is as the uniformity. UNIFORMITY is particularly used for one and the same form of public prayers, and administration of sacraments and other rites, &c., of the church of England, prescribed by the famous stat. 1, Eliz. and 13 and 14, Car. II. cap. 4, called the Act of Uniformity. See LITURGY. UNIGENITUS. See JANSENISTS. UNIMAGINABLE, adj. Į Not to be imagined UNIMAGINABLY, adv. 3 by the fancy; not to be conceived: the adverb corresponds. Things to their thought So unimaginable, as hate in heaven. Milton. Little commissures, where they adhere, may not be porous enough to be pervious to the unimaginably subtle corpuscles that make up the beams of light. Boyle. UNIMITABLE, adj. Fr. inimitable; Lat. inimitabilis. Not to be imitated. Both these are unimitable. Burnet. The whole island is now uninhabited. UNIMMORTAL, adj. Not immortal; mortal. habitableness of the torrid zone, of the solidity of the They betook them several ways, Both to destroy, or unimmortal make All kinds. Milton. Not liable to waste or diminution: not celestial part of the world, are generally grown out of request. Boyle. UNINJURED, adj. Unhurt; suffering no harm. |