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The duke's carriage was surely noble throughout; of unquestionable courage in himself, and rather fearful of fame than danger. It did not please the gods, who instruct the people; And their unquestioned pleasures must be served.

Wotton.

Ben Jonson. She muttering prayers, as holy rites she meant, Through the divided crowd unquestioned went. Dryden.

If the fathers were unquestionably of the household of faith, and all to do good to them; then certainly their children cannot be strangers in this household. Spratt. UNQUICK', adj. Į Motionless; not alive; not UNQUICK ENED. animated.

His senses droop, his steady eyes unquick;
And much he ails, and yet he is not sick.
Every foetus bears a secret hoard,
With sleeping, unexpanded issue stored;
Which numerous, but unquickened progeny
Clasped and enwrapped within each other lie.

Daniel.

Blackmore.

UNQUIET, adj. 7 Fr. inquiet; Latin, inUNQUIETLY, adv. quietus. Moved with perUNQUIETNESS, n. s.petual agitation; not calm; not still: the derivatives corresponding.

From grammatick flats and shallows they are on the sudden transported to be tossed and turmoiled with their unballasted wits, in fathomless and unquiet depths of controversy.

Who's there besides foul weather? One minded like the weather, most Unquietly.

Millon.

Shakspeare.

Thou, like a violent noise, cam'st rushing in, And mak'st them wake and start to new unquietness. Denham. UNRACK'ED, adj. Not poured from the lees. Rack the one vessel from the lees, and pour the lees of the racked vessel into the unracked vessel. Bacon.

UNRAK'ED, adj. Not thrown together and covered. Used only of fires.

Cricket, to Windsor chimnies shalt thou leap: Where fires thou find'st unraked, and hearths unswept, There pinch the maids. Shakspeare. Merry Wives.

UNRAN'SACKED, adj. Not pillaged.

He gave that rich city for a prey unto his soldiers, who left neither house nor corner thereof unransacked.

Knolles.

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Hence terrible shadow! Unreal mock'ry, hence! Shakspeare. Macbeth. I with pain Of horrible confusion. Voyaged the unreal vast unbounded deep

Milton's Paradise Lost.

UNREASONABLE, adj. Exorbitant; claimUNREASONABLENESS, n. s. ing or insisting on more than is fit: the noun substantive correspording.

No reason known to us; but that there is no reason thereof, I judge most unreasonable to imagine. Hooker. The unreasonableness of their propositions is not more evident, than that they are not the joint desires of the major number. King Charles. It is unreasonable for men to be judges in their own cases; self-love will make men partial to themselves and their friends. Locke.

She entertained many unreasonable prejudices against him, before she was acquainted with his personal worth. Addison. UNREAVE', v. a. Now unravel; from un, and reave, or ravel. To unwind; to disentangle. Penelope, for her Ulysses' sake,

Devised a web her wooers to deceive;

In which the work that she all day did make, The same at night she did unreave.

UNREBAT'ED, adj. Not blunted.

Spenser.

A number of fencers try it out with unrebated swords. Hakewill. UNREBUK'ABLE, adj. Obnoxious to no

censure.

Keep this commandment without spot, unrebukable, until the appearing of Christ. 1 Tim. vi. 14.

UNRECEIVED, adj. Not received.

Where the signs and sacraments of his grace are not, they really give what they promise, and are what they through contempt, unreceived, or received with contempt, signify. Hocker.

UNRECLAIM'ED, adj. Not tamed. A savageness of unreclaimed blood, Of general assault. Shakspeare. Hamlet. This is the most favourable treatment a sinner can

UNRAN'SOMED, adj. Not set free by pay- hope for, who continues unreclaimed by the goodness of ment for liberty.

Unransomed here receive the spotless fair, Accept the hecatomb the Greeks prepare. Pope's Iliad. UNRAVEL, v. a. To disentangle; extricate;

clear.

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Rogers. UNRECONCILED, adj. Not reconciled: UNRECONCILEʼABLE. Snot to be recon

ciled.

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On the western coast

Rideth a puissant navy: to our shores

Throng many doubtful, hollow-hearted friends, Unarmed, and unresolved to beat them back.

Turnus, unresolved of flight,

Shaksp.

Moves tardy back, and just recedes from fight. Dryd. She her arms about her unresolving husband threw. Id. UNRESPECTIVE, adj. Inattentive; taking ittle notice.

I will converse with iron-witted fools, And unrespective boys; none are for me That look into me with considerate eyes. Shakspeare. UNRESTORED', adj. Not restored; not cleared from an attainder.

The son of an unrestored traitor has no pretence to Collier. the quality of his ancestors. UNRESTRAIN'ED, adj. Not confined; not

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Shakspeare.

UNRING', v. a. To deprive of a ring. Be forced to impeach a broken hedge, And pigs unringed at vis. franc. pledge.

Hudibras.

UNRIP', v. a. This word is improper, there being no difference between rip and unrip, and the negative particle is therefore of no force; yet it is well authorised. To cut open.

He could not now, with his honour, so unrip, and put a lye upon all that he had said and done before, as to deliver him up. Bacon's Henry VII. We are angry with searchers when they break open trunks, and unrip packs, and open sealed letters.

UNRI'PE, adj.
UNRI'PENED,

UNRI PENESS, n. s. S

Taylor. Immature; not fully concocted; not ripened: state of being unripe.

Who hath not heard of the valiant, wise, and just Dorilaus, whose unripe death doth yet, so many years since, draw tears from virtuous eyes?

In this northern tract, our hoarser throats Utter unripe and ill-constrained notes.

Sidney.

Waller.

Addison.

Were you with these, you'd soon forget The pale, unripened beauties of the north. UNRIVALL'ED, adj. Having no competitor. Honour forbid! at whose unrivalled shrine Ease, pleasure, virtue, all our sex resign. UNROL', v. a. To open what is rolled or convolved.

Time has unrolled her glories to the last, And now closed up the volume.

Pope.

Dryden. UNROMANTIC, adj. Contrary to romance. It is a base unromantic spirit not to wait on you.

Swift. UNROOF', v. a. To strip off the roof or covering of houses.

The rabble should have first unroofed the city, Ere so prevailed with me. Shakspeare. Coriolanus. UNROOSTED, adj. Driven from the roost. Thou dotard! thou art woman-tired, unroosted, By thy old dame Partlet here. Shakspeare. UNROOT, v. a. To tear from the roots; extirpate; eradicate.

Unroot the forest oaks, and bear away Flocks, folds, and trees, an undistinguished prey. Dryden.

UNROUND'ED, adj. Not shaped; not cut to a round.

Those unfiled pistolets,
That more than cannon-shot avails or lets;
Which, negligently left unrounded, look
Like many-angled figures in the book
Of some dread conjurer.

Donne.

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Spenser.

By the negligence of some who were hardly to be commanded, and by the unruliness of others who without leave were gone ashore, so fair an occasion of vicKnolles. tory was neglected.

UNSAFE', adj. Į Not secure; hazardous; UNSAFELY', adv. S dangerous: the adverb corresponding.

If they would not be drawn to seem his adversaries, yet others should be taught how unsafe it was to continue his friends. Hooker.

As no man can walk, so neither can he think, uneasily or unsafely, but in using, as his legs, so his thoughts, amiss; which a virtuous man never doth.

Grew.

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UNSANCTIFIED, adj. Unholy; not consecrated; not pious.

Her obsequies have been so far enlarged As we have warrantry; her death was doubtful; And, but that great command o'ersways the order, She should in ground unsanctified have lodged Till the last trump. Shakspeare. UNSATIABLE, adj. Lat. insatiabilis. Not to be satisfied; greedy without bounds.

Not giving satisfaction: not

Unsatiable in their longing to do all manner f good to all the creatures of God, but especially men. Hooker. UNSATISFACTORY, adj. UNSATISFAC TORINESS, n. s. clearing the difficulty: the noun substantive corresponding.

That which most deters me from such trials is their unsatisfactoriness, though they should succeed. Boyle.

Latria to the cross, is point blank against the definition of the council of Nice; and it is an unsatisfactory answer to say, they only were against latria given to images for themselves.

UNSATISFIED, adj. UNSATISFIEDNESS, n. s. UNSATISFYING, adj.

tenting.

Stilling fleet.

Not contented; not pleased: state of being not pleased: not con

Though he were unsatisfied in getting, Yet in bestowing he was most princely. Shakspeare, Between my own unsatisfiedness in conscience and a necessity of satisfying the importunities of some, i was persuaded to choose rather what was safe, than what seemed just. King Charles Nor is fame only unsatisfying in itself, but the desir of it lays us open to many accidental troubles. Addis UNSA'VORY, adj. Tasteless; insipid; UNSA'VORINESS, n. s. having a bad taste: taste lessness; vileness of taste.

Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt! or is there any taste in the white of an egg? Job vi. 6. Unsavoury news; but how made he escape? Shaksp. If we concede a national unsavouriness in any people, yet shall we find the Jews less subject hereto than any. UNSAY', v. a. To retract; recant. Call you me fair? that fair again unsay; Demetrius loves you, fair.

Brown. I

Shakspear.

Milten.

Gay.

Say and unsay, feign, flatter, or abjure. UNSCA'LY, adj. Having no scales. The jointed lobster, and unscaly soale. UNSCAR'RED, adj. Not marked with wounds. And must she die for this? O let her live: So she may live unscarred from bleeding slaughter, I will confess she was not Edward's daughter. Stat. UNSCHOLASTIC, adj. Į Not bred to literaUNSCHOOLED'. Sture or in the schools. When the apostles were ordained to alter the laws of heathenish religion, they were, St. Paul excepted, unschooled and unlettered men. Hooker

Notwithstanding these learned disputants, it was to the unscholastick statesmen that the world owed ther peace and liberties. Loca UNSCORCHED', adj. Not touched by fire. His hand,

Not sensible of fire, remained unscorched. Shakspeare.
UNSCOURED', adj. Not cleaned by rubbing
Which have, like unscoured armour, hung by the' wall,
The' enrolled penalties,
And none of them been worn.
Shakspeare

UNSCRATCHED', adj. Not torn.
I with much expedient march
Have brought a counter-check before your gates,
To save unscratched your city's threatened cheeks.
Shakspeare.
UNSCREENED', adj. Not covered; not pro-

tected.

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and the adverb and noun substantive correspond. Is is then a very unseasonable time to plead law, when swords are in the hands of the vulgar. Spenser. Some things it asketh unseasonably, when they need not to be prayed for; as deliverance from thunder and tempest when no danger is nigh. Hooker.

I think myself in a better plight for a lender than you are; the which has something emboldened me to this unseasoned intrusion. Shakspeare. The moral goodness, unfitness, and unseasonableness of moral or natural actions falls not within the verge of a brutal faculty. Hale's Origin of Mankind. UNSECONDED, adj. Not supported. Strange and unseconded shapes of worms succeeded.

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UNSEEMLY, adj. & adv. use. Unseemly means UNSEEM'LINESS, n.s. Sunbecoming; indecent: indecently; unbecomingly: the noun substantive corresponds.

Charity doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own. 1 Cor. xiii. 5. Adultery of the tongue, consisting in corrupt, dishonest, and unseemly speeches. Perkins.

All as before his sight whom we fear, and whose presence to offend with any the least unseemliness we would be surely as loth as they who most reprehend or deride that we do. Hooker.

You wrong the reputation of your name, In so unseeming to confess receipt

Of that which hath so faithfully been paid. Shakspeare.

Her gifts

Were such, as under government well seemed;
Unseemly to bear rule.
Milton's Paradise Lost.

Watts.

I wish every unseemly idea and wanton expression had been banished from amongst them. UNSEEN', adj. Not seen; not discovered;

UNSEEING.

without vision.

not discoverable: unseeing is

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UNSEPARABLE, adj. Į UNSEP'ARATED.

Not to be parted or divided: not parted.

Oh world, thy slippery turns!

sworn,

Who twine as 'twere in love Unseparable, shall, within this hour, Break out to bitterest enmity.

Friends now fast

There seek the Theban bard; Gave to retain the' unseparated soul. To whom Persephone entire and whole

Shakspeare.

Pope's Odyssey. UNSERVICEABLE, adj. Useless; bringUNSER VICEABLY, adv. Sing no advantage or convenience: the adverb corresponding.

It can be no unserviceable design to religion, to undeceive men in so important a point. Rogers. It does not enlarge the dimensions of the globe, or lie idly and unserviceably there. Woodward. UNSET', adj. Not set; not placed. They urge that God left nothing in his word undescribed, nothing unset down; and therefore charged them strictly to keep themselves to that without any alteration. Hooker.

UNSETTLE, v. a. UNSETTLED, adj.

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UNSETTLEDNESS, n. s. S of being unfixed.

David supposed that it could not stand with the duty which he owed unto God, to set himself in an house of cedar trees, and to behold the ark of the Lord's covenant unsettled. Hooker.

Shakspeare.

Dryden.

A solemn air, and the best comforter To an unsettled fancy, cure thy brains. Unsettled virtue stormy may appear; Honour, like mine, serenely is severe. The unsettledness of my condition has hitherto put a stop to my thoughts concerning it.

UNSEV'ERED, adj. Not parted.

Id.

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Ill thou wast shrouded then,
O patient Son of God! yet only stood'st
Unshaken.

Milton's Paradise Regained. UNSHACK'LE, v. a. To loose from bonds.

A laudable freedom of thought unshackles their minds from the narrow prejudices of education, and opens their eyes to a more extensive view of the public good.

Addison.

UNSHAM'ED, adj. Not shamed. The brave man seeks not popular applause; Unshamed, though foiled, he does the best he can: Force is of brutes, but honour is of man. Dryden.

UNSHAP'EN, adj. Mishapen; deformed. This unshapen earth we now inhabit, is the form it was found in when the waters had retired. Burnet. UNSHAR ́ED, adj. Not partaken; not had in

common.

Bliss, as thou hast part, to me is bliss ; Tedious unshared with thee, and odious soon. Milton.

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