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Woodward.

UNAMAʼZED, adj. Not astonished; free from astonishment.

Though at the voice much marvelling; at length Not unamazed, she thus in answer spake. Milton.

UNAMBITIOUS, adj. Free from ambition. My humble muse, in unambitious strains, Paints the green forests, and the flowery plains.

Pope. I am one of those unambitious people, who will love you forty years hence. Id.

UNAMEND'ABLE, adj. Lat. inemendabilis. Not to be changed for the better.

He is the same man; so is every one here that you

know: mankind is unamendable.

UNA'MIABLE, adj. Not raising love.
Nor are the hills unamiable, whose tops
To heaven aspire.

Pope.

Philips.

Those who represent religion in an unamiable light are like the spies sent by Moses to make a discovery of the land of promise, when, by their reports, they discouraged the people from entering upon it.

Addison's Spectator. UNAN'ALYSED, adj. Not resolved into simple parts.

Some large crystals of refined and unanalysed nitre appeared to have each of them six flat sides. Boyle.

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Look on those half lines as the imperfect products of a hasty muse: like the frogs in the Nile, part kindled into life, and part a lump of uninformed unanimated matter. Dryden. French unanime; Lat.

UNAN'IMOUS, adj.) UNAN'IMOUSLY, adv. unanimis. Being of one UNANIM'ITY, n. s. mind; agreeing in design or opinion: the adverb and noun substantive correspond.

They wont to meet So oft in festivals of joy, and love Unanimous, as sons of one great sire, Hymning the eternal Father. Milton's Paradise Lost.

An honest party of men, acting with unanimity, are of infinitely greater consequence than the same party aiming at the same end by different views. Addison. ancient Christian authors. This particular is unanimously reported by all the

Id.

UNANOINT'ED, adj. Not anointed: hence, according to the Romish practice, not prepared for death by extreme unction.

Shakspeare.

Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand Cut off, even in the blossom of my sin, Unhouseled, unanointed, unaneled. UNAN'SWERABLE, adj. UNAN'SWERABLY, adv. UNAN'SWERED, adj.

Not to be refuted: the abverb

corresponding: un

answered, not replied to; not confuted.

All these reasons, they say, have been brought, and were hitherto never answered; besides a number of merriments and jests unanswered likewise. Hooker. This is a manifest and unanswerable argument.

Raleigh. UNAPPALL'ED, adj. Not daunted; not impressed by fear.

Infernal ghosts

Environed thee; some howled, some yelled, some shrieked ;

Some bent at thee their fiery darts; while thou
Satest unappalled in calm and sinless peace. Milton.
As a lion, unappalled with fear,

Springs on the toils, and rushes on the spear. Dryden.
UNAPPAR'ELLED, adj. Not dressed; not

clothed.

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UNAPPROVED, adj. From approve. Not Unshaked of motion.

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UNAPTLY, adv. UNAPT'NESS, n. s. corresponding.

Milton.

> From apt. Dull; not apprehensive; not ready: the adverb and noun substantive

Men's apparel is commonly made according to their conditions, and their conditions are often governed by their garments; for the person that is gowned is by his gown put in mind of gravity, and also restrained from lightness by the very unaptness of his weed.

Spenser. A longing after sensua. pleasures is a dissolution of the spirit of a man, and makes it loose, soft, and wandering, unapt for noble, wise, or spiritual employments. Taylor.

He swims on his back, and the shape of his back seems to favour it, being very like the bottom of a boat; nor do his hinder legs unaptly resemble a pair of oars.

Grew.

UNAR'GUED, adj. From argue. Not disputed; not censured.

What thou bid'st,, Unargued I obey; so God ordains.

Not that this work lived in the hands of foes, Unargued then, and yet hath fame from those.

Milton.

Ben Jonson.

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Shakspeare.

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The doubts and dangers, the delays and woes, The feigned friends, the unassured foes, Do make a lover's life a wretch's hell. UNATONʼED, adj. Not expiated. Could you afford him such a bribe as that, A brother's blood yet unatoned? UNATTAIN'ABLE, adj. Not to be gained UNATTAIN'ABLENESS, n. s. or obtained; being out of reach state of being so.

Rowe.

Praise and prayer are God's due worship; which are unattainable by our discourse, simply considered, without the benefit of divine revelation. Dryden.

Desire is stopped by the opinion of the impossibility, or unattainableness, of the good proposed. Locke. UNATTEMPTED, adj. Untried; not assayed. He left no means unattempted of destroying his son.

Sidney.

Shall we be discouraged from any attempt of doing good, by the possibility of our failing in it? How many of the best things would, at this rate, have been left unattempted! Atterbury. Having no retinue, or attendants;

UNATTEN'DED, adj. Į UNATTENDING. companied: not attending Your constancy Hath left you unattended.

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Shakspeare. Macbeth. 2 F

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Unforced by punishment, unawed by fear,
His words were simple, and his soul sincere. Dryden.
UNBACK'ED, adj. Not tamed; not taught to
bear a rider; not countenanced or supported.
Then I beat my tabor;

At which, like unbacked colts, they pricked their ears,
Advanced their eyelids, lifted up their noses,
As they smelt musick.
Shakspeare. Tempest.
Let the weight of thine own infamy
Fall on thee unsupported, and unbacked.
UNBALANCED, adj. Not poised; not in equi-

poise.

Daniel.

Let earth unbalanced from her orbit fly, Planets and suns run lawless through the sky. Pope. UNBALLASTED, adj. Not kept steady by oallast; unsteady.

They having but newly left those grammatick flats, where they struck unreasonably, to learn a few words with lamentable construction; and now on the sudden transported under another climate, to be tost and turmoiled with their unballasted wits in fathomless and unquiet deeps of controversy, do, for the most part, grow into hatred of learning. UNBAND'ED, udj. From band. Wanting a string, or band.

Milton.

Your hose should be ungartered, your bonnet unbanded, and every thing demonstrating a careless desolatio.. Shakspeare.

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'Tis not secure, this place or that to guard, If any other entrance stand unbarred. UNBARB’ED, n. s. Lat. barba, the beard. Unshaven.

A lie?

Must I go shew them my unbarbed sconce ? Must my base tongue give to my noble heart Shakspeare. Coriolanus. UNBARK'ED, adj. From bark. Decorticated; stripped of the bark.

A branch of a tree, unbarked some space at the bottom, and so set in the ground, hath grown. Bacon.

UNBASH'FUL, adj. Impudent; shameless.

Nor did I with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility. Shakspeare. UNBATHED', adj. From bath. Not wet. Fierce Pasimond, their passage to prevent, Thrust full on Cymon's back in his descent: The blade returned unbathed, and to the handle bent. Dryden. UNBATTERED, adj. Not injured by blows. I cannot strike at wretched kernes, whose arms Are hired to bear their staves: or thou, Macbeth; Or else my sword, with an unbattered edge, I sheath again undeeded.

Shakspeare. UNBAY', v. a. restraint of mounds. To set open; to free from the

I ought now to loose the reins of my affections, to unbay the current of my passion, and love on without boundary or measure. Norris's Miscellany.

UNBEAR'ING, adj. Bringing no fruit. He with his pruning hook disjoins Unbearing branches from their head, And grafts more happy in their stead. UNBEATEN, adj. Not treated with blows; untrodden.

Dryden.

We must tread unbeaten paths, and make a way where we do not find one; but it shall be always with a light in our hand.

His mare was truer than his chronicle;
For she had rode five miles unspurred, unbeaten,
And then at last turned tail towards Neweaton.

UNBECOM'ING, adj. UNBECOM'INGNESS, n. s. substantive corresponding.

Bacon.

Bp. Corbet. Indecent; unsuitable; indecorous: the noun

No thought of flight, None of retreat, no unbecoming deed That argued fear.

Milton's Paradise Lost. If words are sometimes to be used, they ought to be grave, kind, and sober, representing the ill or unbecomingness of the fault. Locke.

UNBED', v. a. To raise from a bed. Eels unbed themselves, and stir at the noise of thunder. Walton's Angler. UNBEFITTING, adj. Not becoming; not

suitable.

All wanton as a child, skipping in vain. Shakspeare.
Love is full of unbefitting strains,
He might several times have made peace with his dis-
contented subjects, upon terms not at all unbefitting his
dignity or interest; but he rather chose to sacrifice the
whole alliance to his private passion.
Swift
UNBEGET', v. n. To deprive of existence.
Wishes each minute he could unbeget
Those rebel sons who dare t'usurp his seat. Dryden.
UNBEGOT, adj. Į From begot. Not begot-
Sten; without generation;

UNBEGOTTEN.

eternal.

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Why should he attribute the same honour to matter, which is subject to corruption, as to the eternal, unbegotten, and immutable God? Stillingfleet.

UNBEGUILE, v. a. To undeceive; to set free from the influence of deceit.

Then unbeguile thyself, and know with me That angels, though on earth employed they be, Are still in heaven.

Donne.

Their comeliness unbeguiled the vulgar of the odd opinion the loyalists had formerly infused into them by their concionatory invectives. Howel's Vocal Forest. UNBEHELD', adj. Unseen; not discoverable to the sight.

These then, though unbeheld in deep of night, Shine not in vain.

Milton. UNBELIEF', n. s. Incredulity; infidelity; UNBELIEVE', v. a. irreligion: to unbelieve is UNBELIEV'ER, n. s. to discredit: unbeliever, UNBELIEV'ING, adj. › one who does not, or will not, believe: unbelieving, incredulous; not willing

to believe.

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Unbidden guests

Shaksp.

Are often welcomest when they are gone.
Thorns also and thistles it shall bring thee forth
Unbid.
Milton.

UNBIG'OTTED, adj. Free from bigotry. Erasmus, who was an unbigotted Roman Catholic, was so much transported with this passage of Socrates, that he could scarce forbear looking upon him as a saint, and desiring him to pray for him. Addison. UNBIND', v. a. From bind. To loose; untie. His own woe's author, whose bound it finds, As did Pyrocles, and it wilfully unbinds.

Spanser. On the sixth instant it was thought fit to unbind his head.

Tatler.

UNBISH'OP, v. a. From bishop. To deprive of episcopal orders.

I cannot look upon Titus as so far unbishoped yet, but that he still exhibits to us all the essentials of jurisdiction. South.

UNBITTED, adj. From bit. Unbridled; unrestrained.

We have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts; whereof I take this love to be a sect or cyon. Shakspeare. Not culpable; not chargeable with fault : the adverb corespond

ing

UNBLAM'ABLE, adj. UNBLAM'ABLY, adv.

UNBLAM'ED, adj.

fault.

nblamed is, unimpeached; not charged with

Ye re witnesses, and God also, how holily, and justly, and unblamably we behaved ourselves.

1 Thess. ii. 10. Much more could I say concerning this unblamable inequality of fines and rates.

Bacon.

Shall spend your days in joy unblamed, and dwell Long time in peace.

Milton.

UNBLEM'ISHED, adj. Free from turpitude; free from reproach; free from deformity.

Under this stone lies virtue, youth, Unblemished probity, and truth.

Waller.

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UNBLOWN', adj. Having the bud yet unexpanded.

Ah! my poor princes! Ah! my tender babes! My unblown flowers, new-appearing sweets. Shaksp. UNBLUNTED, adj. Not becoming obtuse. A sword, whose weight without a blow might slay; Able, unblunted, to cut hosts away.

Cowley.

UNBODIED, adj. Incorporeal; immaterial; freed from the body.

She hath the bonds broke of eternal night; Her soul unbodied of the burdenous corpse. Spenser. If we could conceive of things as angels and unbodied spirits do, without involving them in those clouds language throws upon them, we should seldom be in danger of such mistakes as are perpetually committed. Watts's Logick.

UNBOIL'ED, adj. Not sodden. A quarter of a pint of rice unboiled will arise to a pint boiled.

UNBOLT, v. a.

To set open; to unbar. I'll call my uncle down;

Bacon.

Shakspeare.

He shall unbolt the gates.
I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar, and
daub the walls of a jakes with him.
UNBON'NETTED, adj. Wanting a hat or

bonnet.

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Id.

Shakspeare.

UNBOOK'ISH, adj. Not studious of books; uneducated.

As he shall smile Othello shall go mad;
And his unbookish jealousy must construe
Poor Cassio's smiles, gestures, and light behaviour,
Quite in the wrong.

Shakspeare. Othello.

UNBORN', adj. Not yet brought into life; fu

ture; being to come.

Some unborn sorrow, ripe in fortune's womb, Shakspeare. Richard II.

Is coming toward me.

To what wretched state reserved!

Better end here unborn! Why is life given To be thus wasted from us?

Milton.

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He that has complex ideas, without particular names for them, would be in no better case than a bookseller who had volumes that lay unbound, and without titles; which he could make known to others, only by shewing the loose sheets. Locke.

Finitude, applied to created things, imports the proportions of the several properties of these things to one another. Infinitude the unboundedness of these degrees of properties. Cheyne.

UNBOW'ED, adj. Not bent.

He knits his brow, and shews an angry eye, And passeth by with stiff, unbowed knee, Disdaining duty that to us belongs.

Shaksp. Henry VI. UNBOW'EL, v. a. To exenterate; eviscerate. In this chapter I'll unbowel the state of the question. Hakewill.

UNBRACE', v. a. To loose; relax; untie.
Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced;
No hat upon his head, his stockings loose.
Wasting years, that wither human race,
Exhaust thy spirits, and thy arms unbrace.

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Looking on my boy's face, methought I did recoil Twenty-three years, and saw myself unbreeched, In my green velvet coat. Shakspeare. Winter's Tale. UNBRIB'ED, adj. Not influenced by money or gifts; not hired.

To succour the distressed; Unbribed by love, unterrified by threats. A. Philips. UNBRIDLED, udj. Licentious; not re

strained.

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