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Locke.

I do not know how they can be excused from murder, who kill monstrous birds, because of an unordinary shape, without knowing whether they have a rational soul or no. UNORGANIZED, adj. Having no parts instrumental to the nourishment of the rest. It is impossible for any organ to regulate itself: much less may we refer this regulation to the animal spirits, an unorganized fluid. Grew's Cosmologia. UNORIGINAL, adj. Į Having no birth; unUNORIGINATED. S generated.

I toiled out my uncouth passage, forced to ride The' untractable abyss, plunged in the womb Of unoriginal night, and chaos wild. Milt. Par. Lost. UNORTHODOX, adj. Not holding pure doc

trine.

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The secret of all this unprecedented proceeding in their masters they must not impute to their freedom in debate, but to that unparliamentary abuse, of setting individuals upon their shoulders, who were hated by God and man. Swift. UNPARTED, adj. Undivided; not separated. Too little it eludes the dazzled sight, Becomes mixed blackness, or unparted light.

Prior.

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Pay her the debt you owe her, and unpay the villany you have done her: the one you may do with sterling money, and the other with current repentance.

Shakspeare. UNPEACE'ABLE, adj. Quarrelsome; inclined to disturb the tranquillity of others.

The design is to restrain men from things which make them miserable to themselves, unpeaceable and troublesome to the world. Tillotson.

To depopulate; to deprive

Unpeopled, unmanured.

In antique times was savage wilderness,

Spenser.

that

He must be thirty-five years old, a doctor of the faculty, and eminent for his religion and honesty; his rashness and ignorance may not unpeople the commonwealth. Addison.

UNPERCEIVED, adj. Į Not observed; not UNPERCEIVEDLY, adv. heeded; not sensibly discovered: the adverb corresponds.

Bacon.

The ashes, wind unperceived shakes off. themselves to it. Some oleaginous particles, unperceivedly associated Boyle.

Thus daily changing by degrees, I'll waste, Still quitting ground, by unperceived decay, And steal myself from life, and melt away. Dryden. UNPERFORM'ED, adj. Undone; not done. A good law without execution is like an unperformed promise. Taylor's Rule of Holy Living. UNPE'RISHABLE, adj. Lasting to perpetuity; exempt from decay.

We are secured to reap in another world everlasting, Hammond. unperishable felicities.

UNPER JURED, adj. Free from perjury.
Beware of death; thou canst not die unperjured,
And leave an unaccomplished love behind,
Thy vows are mine.

Dryden. UNPERPLEX'ED, adj. Disentangled; not

embarrassed.

In learning, little should be proposed to the mind at once; and, that being fully mastered, proceed to the next adjoining part, yet unknown, simple, unperplexed proposition.

Locke.

UNPERSPIRABLE, adj. Not to be admitted through the pores of the skin.

Bile is the most unperspirable of animal fluids.

Arbuthnot.

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noun substantive corresponding: to unphilosophize is, to degrade from the character of a philosopher. (A bad coinage of Pope's.)

They forget that he is the first cause of all things, and discourse most unphilosophically, absurdly, and unsuitably to the nature of an infinite being, whose influence must set the wheel a-going. South.

I could dispense with the unphilosophicalness of this their hypothesis, were it not unchristian. Norris.

It became him who created them to set them in order and, if he did so, it is unphilosophical to seek for Newton. UNPEG', v. a. To open any thing closed with any other origin of the world.

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Our passions, our interests flow in upon us, and unPope. philosophize us into mere mortals. UNPIERCED', adj. Not penetrated; not

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Waller.

Figs there unplanted through the fields do grow, Such as fierce Cato did the Romans show. UNPLAUSIBLE, adj. Not plausible; not such as has a fair appearance.

There was a mention of granting five subsidies; and that meeting being, upon very unpopular and unplausible reasons, immediately dissolved, those five subsidies were exacted, as if an act had passed to that purpose. Clarendon.

UNPLAU'SIVE, adj. Not approving. 'Tis like he'll question me, Why such unplausive eyes are bent on him. Shaksp.

UNPLEA'SANT, adj. UNPLEASANTLY, adv. UNPLEA'SANTNESS, n. s.

stantive corresponding.

O sweet Portia !

Not delighting; troublesome; uneasy: the adverb and noun sub

Here are a few of the unpleasant'st words That ever blotted paper.

Shaksp.

Many people cannot at all endure the air of London, not only for its unpleasantness, but for the suffocations which it causes. Graunt.

We cannot boast of good-breeding, and the art of life; but yet we don't live unpleasantly in primitive simplicity and good humour. Pope. UNPLEASED', adj. Į UNPLEAS'ING.

gusting.

Not pleased; not delighted; offensive; dis

Me rather had, my heart might feel your love, Than my unpleased eye feel your courtesy. Shaksp. If all those great painters, who have left us such fair platforms, had rigorously observed it in their figures, they had made things more regularly true, but withal very unpleasing. Dryden's Dufresnoy.

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that act.

The archbishop of York, by such unprelatical ignominious arguments, in plain terms advised him to pass Clarendon. UNPREMEDITATED, adj. Not prepared in the mind before-hand.

The slow of speech make unpremeditated harangues, or converse readily in languages that they are but little acquainted with. Addison.

UNPREPARED', adj. Į Not fitted by preUNPREPAREDNESS, n. s. vious measures: the noun substantive corresponds.

I believe my innocency, and unpreparedness to assert my rights and honour, make me the most guilty in their esteem, who would not so easily have declared a war against me if I had first assaulted them.

King Charles.

To come unprepared before him is an argument that we do not esteem God. Duppa's Rules for Devotion. Fields are full of eyes and woods have ears; For this the wise are ever on their guard, For unforeseen, they say, is unprepared. Dryden. UNPREPOSSESSED', adj. Not prepossessed; not preoccupied by notions.

The unprepossessed on the one hand, and the welldisposed on the other, are affected with a due fear of

these things.

South.

It finds the mind naked, and unprepossessed with any former notions, and so easily and insensibly gains upon

the assent.

Id.

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Bad writers are not ridiculed, because ridicule ought to be a pleasure, but to undeceive and vindicate the honest and unpretending part of mankind from imposi tion. Pope. UNPREVAILING, adj. Being of no force. Throw to earth this unprevailing woe.

Shaksp. Hamlet. UNPREVENTED, adj. Not previously hindered or preceded.

A pack of sorrows, which would press you down,
If unprevented, to your timeless grave.
Thy grace

Shaksp.

Milton.

Comes unprevented, unimplored, unsought. UNPRINCE'LY, adj. Unsuitable to a prince. I could not have given my enemies greater advantages, than by so unprincely an inconstancy.

King Charles. UNPRINCIPLED, adj. Not settled in tenets or opinions; wicked.

Others betake them to state affairs, with souls so unprincipled in virtue and true generous breeding, that flattery and court shifts, and tyrannous aphorisms, appear to them the highest points of wisdom.

Milton on Education. UNPRINTED, adj. Not printed. Defer it, till you have finished these that are yet unprinted. Pope. UNPRIS'ABLE, adj. Not valued; not of es

timation.

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Several desires led parts away, Water declined with earth, the air did stay; Fire rose, and each from other but untied, Themselves unprisoned were and purified.

UNPRIZED', adj. Not valued.

Donne.

Shaksp.

Not all the dukes of waterish Burgundy Can buy this unprized, precious maid of me. UNPROCLAIMED', adj. Not notified by a public declaration.

The Syrian king, who to surprize One man, assassin-like had levied war, War unproclaimed.

Milton's Paradise Lost.

UNPROFANED', adj. Not violated. Unspoiled shall be her arms, and unprofaned Her holy limbs with any human hand; And in a marble tomb laid in her native land.

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Rather than make unprofited return.
Be clamorous, and leap all civil bounds,
Shakspeare.
UNPROLIFIC, adj. Barren; not productive.
Great rains drown many insects, and render their
Hale.
eggs unprolifuk, or destroy them.
excellence; having no appearance of value.
UNPROMISING, adj. Giving no promise of

If he be naturally listless and dreaming this unpromising disposition is none of the easiest to be dealt with.

Locke.

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The winter had been very unprosperous and unsuccessful to the king. Clarendon. UNPROTECTED, adj. Not protected; not supported; not defended."

By woeful experience, they both did learn, that to forsake the true God of heaven, is to fall into all such evils upon the face of the earth, as men, either destitute of grace divine may commit, or, unprotected from above, endure. Hooker.

UNPROVED, adj. Not tried; not known by trial, or by argument.

There I found a fresh unproved knight, Whose manly hands imbrued in guilty blood Had never been.

Faerie Queene.

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UNPROVOK'ED, adj. Į Not provoked: in-
UNPROVOKING.
S offensive.

The teeming earth, yet guiltless of the plough,
And unprovoked did fruitful stores allow. Dryden.
Let them forbear all open and secret methods of en-
couraging a rebellion so destructive, and so unprovoked.

Addison. I stabbed him a stranger, unprovoking, inoffensive. Fleetwood.

UNPRUN'ED, adj. Not cut; not lopped. The whole land is full of weeds; Her fruit-trees all unpruned. Shakspeare. UNPUBLIC, adj. Private; not generally known, or seen.

Virgins must be retired and unpublic: for all freedom of society is a violence done to virginity, not in its natural, but in its moral capacity; that is, it loses part of its severity and strictness, by publishing that person, whose work is religion, whose thoughts must dwell in heaven. Taylor.

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Till he has denudated himself of all these incumbrances, he is utterly unqualified for these agonies. Decay of Piet Arbitrary power so diminishes the basis of the fe male figure, as to unqualify a woman for an evening walk. Addise.

Deafness unqualifies me for all company. Swift UNQUAR'RELLABLE, adj. Such as cannot

be impugned.

There arise unto the examination such satisfactory and unquarrelable reasons as may confirm the causes generally received.

UNQUEEN' v. a.

queen.

Browne's Vulgar Erreurs. To divest of the dignity of

Embalm me,

Then lay me forth; although unqueened, yet like A queen, and daughter to a king, inter me.

Shakspeare.

UNQUENCH'ABLE, adj.) UnextinguishUNQUENCH'ABLENESS, n. s. Sable : unextinUNQUENCH'ED, adj. Jguishableness :udextinguished.

We represent wildfires burning in water and quenchable. Bacon. We have heats of dungs, and of lime unquenched. Id. I was amazed to see the unquenchableness of this fire. Hakerill.

Our love of God, our unquenchable desires to promote our well-grounded hopes to enjoy his glory, should take the chief place in our zeal.

UNQUESTIONED, adj.
UNQUESTIONABLE,
UNQUESTIONABLY, adv.

Sprot.

Not doubted; passed without doubt: Snot to be question

ed. the adverb corresponding.

What were his marks? -A lean cheek, which you have not an LS t'onable spirit, which you have not. Shak peare

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