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How know we that our souls shall not this night be required, laden with those unpardoned sins for which we proposed to repent to-morrow? Rogers. UNPARLIAMENTARY, adj. Contrary to UNPARLIAMENTARINESS, n. s. the rules of parliament: the noun substantive corresponding. Sensible he was of that disrespect; reprehending them for the unparliamentariness of their remonstrance in print. Clarendon.

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. UNPARTIAL, adj. Equal; honest: the adUNPARTIALLY, adv. 3 verb corresponding. Not

in use.

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.

UNPEG', v. a. To open any thing closed with a peg.

Unpeg the basket on the house's top;
Let the birds fly.
Shakspeare. Hamlet.

UNPEN'SIONED, adj. Not kept in depend

ance by a pension.

Could pensioned Boileau lash in honest strai Flatterers and bigots, even in Louis' reign; And I not strip the gilding off a knave,

Unplaced, unpensioned, no man's heir or slave? Pope.

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In antique times was savage wilderness,
Unpeopled, unmanured.

Spenser.

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

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

The ashes, wind unperceived shakes off. Bacon.
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,
unperishable felicities.
Hammond.
UNPERJURED, adj. Free from perjury.
Beware of death; thou canst not die unperjured,
And leave an unaccomplished love behind,
Thy vows are mine.

UNPERPLEX'ED, adj.
embarrassed.

Dryden. Disentangled; not

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.

UNPERSUA'DABLE, adj. Inexorable; not to be persuaded.

He, finding his sister's unpersuadable melancholy through the love of Amphialus, had for a time left her Sidney.

court.

UNPETRIFIED, adj. Not turned to stone.
In many concreted plants, some parts remain unpe-
trified; that is, the quick and livelier parts remain as
wood, and were never yet converted.
Browne.
Unbecoming
philosophy or a
philosopher:

UNPHILOSOPHICAL, adj.
UNPHILOSOPH'ICALLY, adv.
UNPHILOSOPHICALNESS, N. 8.
UNPHILOSOPHIZE, v. a.

noun substantive corresponding: to unphiloso-
phize is, to degrade from the character of a philo-
sopher. (A bad coinage of Pope's.)

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

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

It became him who created them to set them in order: and, if he did so, it is unphilosophical to seek for any other origin of the world. Newton.

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

The unpierced shade imbrowned the noontide bowers.

Milton.

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May he live long scorned, and unpitied fall, And want a mourner at his funeral! Bishop Corbet. To shame, to chains, or to a certain grave, Lead on, unpitying guides, behold your slave.

Glanville.

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He affirms it to have been the ancient customs of all the Greeks, to set up unpolished stones, instead of images, to the honour of the gods.

Stillingfleet. UNPLACED', adj. Having no place of de- method, and the reasons ranged under the words, first, Discourses for the pulpit should be cast into a plain

pendance.

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Figs there unplanted through the fields do grow, Such as fierce Cato did the Romans show. Waller. 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. Not delighting; troublesome; uneasy: the adverb and noun sub

UNPLEA'SANT, adj.

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

stantive corresponding.

O sweet Portia !

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 fecl 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.

secondly, and thirdly; however, they may be now fancied to sound unpolite, or unfashionable.

Watts on the Mind.

UNPOLLUTED, adj. Lat. impollutus. Not corrupted; not defiled.

Lay her i' the earth;
And from her fair and unpolluted flesh
May violets spring.

Shaksp. Hamlet,
Though unpolluted yet with actual ill,
She half commits, who sins but in her will. Dryden.
UNPOPULAR, adj. Not fitted to please the

people.

The practises of these men, under the covert of feigned zeal, made the appearance of sincere devotion ridiculous and unpopular. Addison's Freeholder. UNPORTABLE, adj. Un and portable. Not to be carried.

Had their cables of iron chains had any great length, they had been unportable; and, being short, the ships must have sunk at an anchor in any stream of weather or counter tide. Raleigh. UNPOSSESS'ED, adj. Not had; not held; not

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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 imposttion. Pope. UNPREVAIL'ING, 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 unPope.

printed.

UNPRIS'ABLE, adj. Not valued; not of es

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UNPROSPEROUS, adj. Latin improsper.

UNPROSPEROUSLY, adv. Unfortunate; not prosperous: the adverb corresponding.

When a prince fights justly, and yet unprosperously, if he could see all those reasons for which God hath so ordered it, he would think it the most reasonable thing in the world.

Taylor.

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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UNPROVOKED, adj. Not provoked: inUNPROVOKING. 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 encouraging 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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But accidents unpurposed.
Or thy precedent services are all

Shakspeare.

UNPURSUED, adj. Not pursued. All night the dreadless angel unpursued Through heaven's wide champain held his way.

Milton.

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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. Browne's Vulgar Errours. UNQUEEN' v. a. To divest of the dignity of Embalm me,

queen.

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. able : unextinUNQUENCH'ED, adj. guishableness :unextinguished.

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

Sprat. Not doubted; pass

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. ed: the adverb corresponding. What were his marks? -A lean cheek, which you have not an unquestionable spirit, which you have not. Shakspeare

ed without doubt: not to be question

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