UNS Thus may euery man reken hym selfe unsure of his owne father yf he beleue no man, or bycause all the prose therof standyth but vpon one woman, & that vpon her, which though she can tell best, yf it be wronge hath greatest cause to lie.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 124. The stode al christendom in doubt, & ensurety, whither Saint John's gospel wer holy scripture or not, & so forth of al the new testament.-Id. Ib. p. 319. For they will not suffer thee, nor none of thy progeny to live, to make any claim afterwards, or to be revenged: for that were their unsurety. Strype. Eccles. Mem. Hen. VIII. an. 1538. Tonstal. How long shall this like dying life endure, And know no end of her owne miserie? But waste and weare away in termes ensure, Twixt feare and hope depending doubtfully. Spenser, son. 25. The vanity of greatness he had try'd, And how unsurely stands the foot of pride. Daniel. Civil Wars, b. ii. It was indeed a very curious show; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on. Burke. On American Taxation. UN-SURGING. Not rising, not moving in waves. But as a ship, that in a quiet calm Floats up and down on the unsurging seas, By some rough gust, which some ill star doth raise, Even so was I.-Drayton. Legend of Matilda the Fair. UN-SURMOUNTABLE. ABLE. See INSURMOUNT That cannot be ascended, climbed or passed over; that cannot be overcome. They being now on a desolate coast, where scarcely any other provision could be got, except what should be saved out of the wreck, this was another unsurmountable source of discord.-Anson. Voyages, b. ii. c. 3. We find (as Josephus well expresses it) that, in proportion to the neglect of the law, easy things became unsurmountable, and all their undertakings how just soever, ended in incurable calamities. Warburton. Divine Legation, b. iv. § 2. UN-SURPA'SSED. Not exceeded or ex celled. Our English heretikes that are lurking there might there Imprynt theyr heresies amonge other matters, & so sende them hither unsuspected.—Sir T. More. Workes, p. 833. UNS Yet that one beast which first Hath tasted, envies not, but brings with joy The good befall'n him, author unsuspect, Friendly to man, farr from deceit or guile. Milton. Paradise Lost, b. ix. Let them not envy others who think the same no less their duty by the general office of Christianity, to speak truth, as in all reason may be thought, more impartially and unsuspectedly without money. Id. On the Removal of Hirelings. And therefore he such deep advice apply'd, Daniel. Civil Wars, b. v. Daniel. Civil Wars, b. v. This is a true story, which happened in the reign of William III. to an unsuspected old patriot, who coming out at the back-door from having been closetted by the king, where he had received a large bag of guineas, the bursting of the bag discovered his business there. Pope. Moral Essays, Ep. 3. Note. From their unsuspicious manner of coming on board, and of receiving us at first on shore, I am of opinion, they are seldom disturbed by either foreign or domestic troubles. Cook. Second Voyage, b. ii. c. 3. UN-SUSPENDED. Not held or kept in a state of rest; not ceasing from action or motion. Not a long and tedious treatise, divided and subdivided, and requiring the unsuspended attention of a day to comprehend a part of it.-Knox. Ess. No. 1. Yet at the same time I have observed, that it is not agreeable to read a great collection of epigrams with an unsuspended attention.-Id. Ib. No. 60. Each flour of slender stalk, whose head though gay, Milton. Paradise Lost, b. ix. His [the slanderers] weapon is an envenomed arrow, full of deadly poison, which he shooteth suddenly, and feareth not; a weapon which by no force can be resisted, by no art declined, whose impression is altogether inevitable and unsustainable.-Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 18. Their leader lost, the Volscians quit the field; UN-SWA'DDLED. Young. Paraphrase on Job. See UNSWATHE. Puppy has scarce unswaddled my legs yet. B. Jonson. Tale of a Tub, Act i. sc. 2. UN-SWATHE, v. To remove, to loosen, to revolve the bonds or fillets wound or folded round. Why truly my bedfellows left me about an hour before day, and told me, if I would be good and lie still, they would send somebody to take me up as soon as it was time for me to rise. Accordingly about nine o'clock in the morning an old woman came to unswathe me. UN-SWA'YABLE. UNSWAYED. UNSWA'YEDNESS. Spectator, No. 90. That cannot be poised or UN-SWEAR, v. To unswear,-to annul the Not pledged to the observance of an oath; t bound by oath. For none of them că tel what was said to an other, & they be ensworne also.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 153. Yet are there many that dare secretely detecte and whom the ordinary shal know who can tell more, and wi also if they be called and sworen, and wyll not vncalled unsworen, tel no tale at all.-Id. Ib. p. 973. Turne you the key, and know his businesse of him; You may; I may not. you are yet rnswore. Shakespeare. Measure for Measure, Acti.. He that swears a false oath with his lips, and waren Ü with his heart, hath deceived one more than he thinks fr Bp. Taylor, vol. i. Ser. 1 Ma. Yes: unswear that oath again I'll tell you all. Beaum. & Fletch. Noble Gentleman, Actir. I spake, and, undelaying, she complied. or evaporated from the skin, the perspiration. Dryden, not exuding or evaporating; not per spiring. The interim of unsweating themselves regularly, and convenient rest before meat, may both with pret delight be taken up in recreating and composing thet travail'd spirits with the solemn and divine harmf music heard or learn'd.-Milton. Of Education. Call for a fire, their winter cloaths they take: UN-SWEET. Not pleasing or agreeable. For all his gods he tooke to borrow, Lidgate. Story of Thebes, pt. Spenser. Faerie Queene, d. ii. c.1. UN-SWELL, v. To sink from a tumid or turgid state; to subside. But tho began his herte alite enswell. Chaucer. Troil. & Crea... passed over with UN-SWEPT. Not rubbed, wiped, brushed Shakespeare. Merry Wives of Windsor, Actr.se. 2. For truth to o're-peere.-Id. Coriolanus, Act il. sc. Cowper. Homer. Ilind, hxi At last, and in good hour, we are come to his fare which is to be a concluding taste to his jabberment in a the flashiest and the fustiest that ever corrupted in balanced; unswill'd hogshead.-Millon, Doct. & Disc. of Divers Pat held or kept in equi poise; wielded; held steady. I rais'd him, and I pawn'd Mine honor for his truth: who being so heighten'd, Shakespeare. Coriolanus, Act v. sc. 5. Rich. Is the chayre emptie? is the sword unsway'd? Is the king dead? the empire vnpossest? Id. Rich. III. Act iv. sc. 4. That constancy and unswayedness in our lives and actions, that rock which no tempest can move.-Hales. Rem. p. 246. STAR No man, who is not inflamed by vain-glory into enthu siasm, can flatter himself that his single, unsupported, desultory, unsystematick endeavours, are of powers to defeat the subtle designs and united cabals of ambitious citizens. Burke. On the present Discontents, (1770.) Thus, between the resistance of power, and the unsys2 tematical process of popularity, the undertaker and the undertaking are both exposed, and the poor reformer is hissed off the stage both by friends and foes. Id. On Economical Reform. UN-TACK, v. To remove that which tacks, takes or holds; to loosen, to dissolve. Sir, the little ado which methinks I find in untacking these pleasant sophisms, put me into the mood to tell you a ale e'er I proceed further, and Menenius Agrippa speed us. Milton. Reformation in England, b. ii. It [faith] alone can untack our minds and affections from this world, rearing our souls from earth, and fixing them in heaven.-Barrow, vol. ii. Ser. 3. If they should untack the bill, and separate one from the other, then the House of Commons would have insisted on a maxim that was now settled among them, as a fundamental principle never to be departed from, that the Lords cannot alter a money bill, but must either pass it or reject it as it is sent to them.-Burnet. Own Time, an. 1705. UN-TAGGED. tacked or attached. You have my resolution. Row. And your money, Not tied or fastened; or Which since you are so stubborn, if I forfeit, Beaum. & Fletch. Woman's Prize, Act iv. sc. 3. UN-TA'INTED. } Not stained, dyed, sorted or sullied, infected, tarnished. As for the other children of this king [Edward I.] which e had by Eleanor his queen, probably born in this castle, iz. Henry Alphonse, Blanche, dying in their infancy imnediately after their baptism, it is enough to name them; ind to bestow this joynt epitaph upon them :"Cleansed at font we drew untainted breath, Not yet made bad for life, made good by death." Fuller. Worthies. Barkshire. The light hath a quality of clearness, of purity of clearess, for the use of manifestation of purity and untaintedess, in respect of any mixture of corruption. Bp. Hall. Ser. 1 John, i. 5. Your grace has not only a long time of youth in which o flourish, but you have likewise found the way, by an intainted preservation of your honour, to make that perishble good more lasting. Dryden. Indian Emperor, Epis. Ded. A school so untaintedly loyal, that I can truly and knowngly averr, that in the very worst of times, (in which it was ny lot to be a member of it) we really were king's scholars, is well as called so.-South, vol. v. Ser. 1. Cowper. Homer. Iliad, b. xix. Not seized, or captured, not The Englysshmen were put to the chase, and dyuerse urt and slayne, and specially sir Robert Dartoyes was sore urte, and scapedde hardely vntaken. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 93. Howbet yet I will goe about to finde a remedy to saue chee from taking, if thou be vntaken: & if thou bee taken, that thou maiest skape out againe. Vives. Instruction of a Christian Woman, b. i. c. 14. Waller. Battle of the Summer-Islands, c. 2. UN-TALKED. Not spoken; not prated or prattled. Spred thy close curtaine loue-performing night, Shakespeare. Romeo & Juliet, Act iii. sc. 2. UN-TA'MEABLE. UNT That cannot be quieted As for the plowing with vres (which I suppose to be vn- Holinshed. Description of England, b. iii. c. 4. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 1. For this reason the philosopher judges young men unfit hearers of moral philosophy, because of the abounding and untamedness of their passions, granting, that if those were composed and ordered, they might be admitted. Leighton. Com. on 1 Peter, c. 2. There is a stubbornness and fretting of heart concerning He cannot be as a beast, or a mere sot, if he would; reason, He would have worn her out by slow degrees, UN-TANGLE, v. Must be to untangle this division, Beaum. & Fletch. Fair Maid of the Inn, Act iii. Now worne away, and with oft trauell broke The emptie name of wife.-May. Lucan. Pharsalia, b. ii. When, sudden, comes blind unrelenting Fate. Byron. Corsair, c. 1. s. 2. Antoninus Pius was a prince excellently learned; and On this state, those untaxed people were actually subject UN-TEACH, v. UN-TALL. Not of lofty-courage or high without instruction, without knowledge. spirit. To cause to be ignorant; to leave in ignorance, Who totheth on hem thei ben untall; Thei ben arayid all for pece.-Chaucer. Plowman's Tale. I wis though he be nyce, untaught and unwise, I woll nat for his foly leve myne emprise. UNT But leauing that vntaught til ye time of his maundy suphys faithfull disciples at the institucion of ye blessed sacraper (whereas S. Cyril hath also shewed you, he taughte it ment) he laboureth as I say in these woordes here moste as can be deuysed, to tell them and make them belieue that they shall verely eate his fleshe. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1064. What congregation of Christendome in all records afforded you the necessary patterne of an unteaching pastor, or an unfeeding teacher?-Bp. Hall. Apol. against Brownists, §27. Their office also in a different manner, steers the same course; the one teaches what is good by precept, the other unteaches what is bad by punishment. Milton. Doctrine & Discipline of Divorce, b. ii. c. 14. Dryden. The Indian Emperour, Act i. sc. 1. And now my only son, new to the toils Far hence, for whose dear cause I sorrow more UN-TEMPERATE. UNTEMPERED. son, circumstances require. In Castyle there is nothynge but harde rockes and moun- Beaum. & Fletch. Maid's Tragedy, Act v. This ravening fellow has a wolf in's fellow; Untemperate knave, will nothing quench thy appetite? Id. Woman Pleas'd, Act i. sc. 2. There is not one stone of a new foundation laide by us: yea the old wal stands still onely the ouercasting of those ancient stones with the untempered morter of new inventions, displeaseth us.-Bp. Hall. The Old Religion, c. 3. "Let us not," says his last ingenious biographer, "con- A maid, whose beauty could not suffer her Beaum. & Fletch. Woman-Hater, Act iv. sc. 1. that they themselves are afraid or ashamed to own it. Their main scheme appearing so gross, and so untenable, Waterland. Works, vol. iv. Introd. Casaubon, who cou'd not but be sensible of his author's Cassibulan thine vnkle (Famous in Cæsar's prayses, no whit lesse Then in his feasts deseruing it) for him And his succession, granted Rome a tribute, Yeerely three thousand pounds; which (by thee) lately Is left entender'd.-Shakespeare. Cymbeline, Act iii. sc. 1. UN-TENT, v. To remove from a tent, or extended covering. Aga. Why will he not vpon our faire request, Vntent his person, and share the ayre with vs? Shakespeare. Troyl. & Cress. Act ii. sc. 3. UN-TENTED. Not probed or examined; not salved or dressed (as wounds or sores after probing). Blastes and fogges vpon thee: Th' entented woundings of a father's curse UN-TERRIFIED. or dismayed. Shakespeare. Lear, Act i. sc. 4. Not frightened, afraid, Chaucer. Troil. & Cres. b. v. Unthank come on his hand that bond him so, Id. The Reves Tale, v. 4081. He wyll thynke, that his seruaunte broughte hym thither onely for vayne glorye, and as a beholder and wōderer at the riches that he him selfe gaue hym, which the other enthankefully doth attribute to his owne fortune or policie. Sir T. Elyot. The Governour, b. iii. c. 2. Wherein our miserie is so muche the greater, that in so great filthiness & vnthankfulnes we are not ouer-whelmed with blushing shame.-Caluin. Foure Godlye Sermons, Ser.2. And than doth the wonderfull vnkyndenesse and too much vnthankfulnesse of man, vnspeakablye set foorth the mercies of God, who wylleth all men to be saued. Fisher. On Prayer, To the Reader. If all the world A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.-B. Jonson. Poetaster, Ded. The husbandman ought not, for one unthankful year, to forsake the plough.-Id. Bartholomew Fair, Act iii. sc. 1. At length he had considered his owne state, and weled how unthankefullie the French king and his brother had dealt with him. Holinshed. Chron. of England. Hen. VII. an. 1173. But almightie God did not long suffer this their vnthankefulnesse without just punishment. Id. Historie of England, b. v. c. 27. Arcos. Were you oblig'd in honour by a trust, I should not think my own proposals just. But, since you fight for an unthankful king, What loss of fame can change of parties bring? Dryden. 2 Pt. Conquest of Granada, Act iii. UN-THAWED. Not softened, relaxed, dissolved, (as ice by warmth.) Should in a pet of temp'rance feed on pulse, So that the pride of vaine glorie To whome no man maie be felawe.-Gower. Con. A. b. i. Go work, hunt, exercise! (he thus began) Pope. Imitation of Horace, b. ii. Sat. 2. Loos'd at its source by tepefying strains, UN-THEOLOGICAL. Cooper. Power of Harmony, b. i. Not according to sound principles of theology, or reasoning upon subjects of divinity. Tell that questionist, that, to argue from scripture negatively in things of this nature is somewhat untheological. Bp. Hall. Let. on the Obs. of Christ's Nativity. UN-THINK, v. UNTHOUGHT. UNTHOUGHTFULNESS. Unthought.-not felt, perceived, conceived, or into the mind or understanding; not retained in imagined; not received the mind; not considered or meditated. They as unthoughtfull, with the rechelesnesse of the father, and wantonnesse of the mother, leaue the iuste trauaile, and take vniust idlenes.-Golden Boke, c. 37. Before His highnesse shall speake in, I do beseech Shakespeare. Hen. VIII. Act ii. sc. 4. Dare I prophane, so irreligious be, B. Jonson. Under-woods, Elegy 9. But on the other side, the shallow, unthinking vulgar. are sure of all things, and bestow their peremtory, full assent on every slight appearance.-Glanvill, Ess. 1. A little inconsiderate accident, the breach of a vein, an ill air, a little ill-digested portion of that excess wherein they delight, may put a period to all those pleasures, and to that life, in a week, in a year, in a day, in a hour, in an unthought moment, before a man hath an opportunity to consider, to bethink himself, or to repent. Hale. Cont. Of Wisdom and the Fear of God. During the current of that tyranny, which for so many years we all groan'd under, he [Hammond] kept a constant equable serenity and unthoughtfulness in outward actions. Fell. Life of Hammond, § 2. The dull, flat falsehood serves for policy; Creseide with a sigh, right in this wise Chaucer, Troil. Cres. b. ir. God forbid that nise vnthrifty thought shoulde come in thy mynde thy wittes to trouble, sithen euery thynge commynge is contingent.-Id. Testament of Loue, bi "For louers ben the folke that ben on liue, That most disease haue, and most enthrine, And most endure sorrow, wo, and care." Id. Cuckow and the Nightingale Therefore dooe not thou thinke that he is returned home to thee the same manne that he was: but thinke bym of a vnthrifle to be new borne an honest and a well dispad manne.-Udal. Luke, c. 15. Beysdes theis, a great multitude of enthrifts and cut throtes were flocked thither out of all Gallia. Goldinge. Casar, fol. 6. Some in Parys sayde: it is pytie these unthriftas be v hanged or drowned. for tellyng of suche lies. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. ii. c. Except suche rybaudes, and enthriflge people, as desired nothynge but yuell and noyse, all the other (gladly they sayde) wolde haue rest and peace, what soeuer came the Id. Ib. vol. i. c. Therefore consider in thy mind, not what hee hath said that hath liked thee, but what hee hath spoken, that bab piuishly, foolishly, foul, horrible, abhominable, lewdy disliked thee: as if he had either done or said ough thriftelie, madly, vngratiously: and by that that cint within.-Vives. Instruction of a Christian Woman, c. it. forth, make coniecture, what lieth hid secretly, & closel Admytte thy wyfe be of croked condicions, or a wanton, or geuen to other vnthriftynesse: destroye bernst with ragyng crueltie, but heale her and amende her with sobre lenitie. Udal. Ephesians, c. 5. You therefore if ye be sure, and have God in your slee to call you to his grace at last, venture hardily by mise ex ample upon naughty unthriftiness, in trust of his goodress and besides the shame, I dare lay ten to one ye shall peris in the adventure -Wyat, Let. 1. To his Son. An other no lesse is, that such plentie of vittayle, as a aboundauntly in euery quarter, for the reliefe of vs a nowe all wastfully and enthriftfully spent, in mainten you vnlawfull rebelles.-Sir J. Cheeke. Hurt of Sedition. And gossip mine I'll keep you sure hereafter From gadding out again, with boys and anthrit Beaum. & Fletch. Knight of the Burning Pestle, Activ. buie the lands of enthriftie gentlemen. In somuch that manie of them [yeomen] are able and doe Holinshed. Description of England, b. ii. e. Spenser. Faerie Queene, d. i. c.1. B. Jonson, Epig And after them a rude, confused rout Of persons flockt, whose names is hard to read: Emongst them was sterne Strife, and Anger stout, Vnquiet Care, and fond enthriflihed. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. ll Pope. Moral Essays, Ep. 1. ing and stand at a stay) but men of measures. God's familie admitteth of no dwarfes (which are sur UN-THO'RNY. Not having tearing prickles; free from prickles, painful difficulties. It were some extenuation of the curse, if in sudore vultus tui were confinable unto corporal exercitations, and there still remained a Paradise or unthorny place of knowledge. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. i. c. 5. UN-THREAD, v. To revolve that which threadeth, knitteth, holds together. Far other arms and other weapons must Be those that quell the might of hellish charms: He with his bare wand can unthread thy joints, And crumble all thy sinews. Milton. Comus. Bp. Hall. Meditations & Foxes, Cent. 1. No. 46. There are very many ways for a good man to become unblessed, and unthriving in his prayers, and he cant he secure unless he be in the state of grace, and his spirit quiet, and his mind be attentive, and his society be last and his desires be earnest and passionate, and his devotio persevering.-Bp. Taylor, vol. i. Ser. 6. Ber. Unthrifts will starve if we before-hand give, Id. 1 Pt. Conquest of Granada, Act I He therefore that is such a niggard of his time, that he grudgeth to withhold any part thereof from his worldly occasions, deeming all time cast away that is laid out in waiting upon God, is really most unthrifty and prodigal hereof.-Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 7. It is therefore the greatest want of policy, the worst illusbandry and unthriftiness that can be, to be sparing this vay [bounty to the poor], he that useth it cannot be thrivTang; he must spend upon the main stock, and may be sure o get nothing considerable.-Id. Ib. Ser. 31. UN-THRONE, v. See DETHRONE. nove from a throne or seat; seat of eminence, of To reoyalty. He takes upon him by Papal sentence to unthrone Chil- Id. Paradise Lost, b. ii. Qu. I came not here to be advis'd by you: But charge you by that pow'r which once you own'd, And which is still my right, ev'n when unthron'd; That whatsoe'r the states resolve of me, You never more think of Caudiope. Dryden. Secret Love, Act v. There is not an ear in the whole country untickled; the icklers have, in their turn, others who tickle them, insoauch, that there is a circulation of tickling throughout that ast empire, [China]-Chesterfield. Fogg's Journal, No.377. UN-TIDY. Not timely or seasonable; preared for the season, ready. Very common in peech. And many a fals treuthe Bale. On the Revelations, pt. i. (1550.) UN-TIE, v. To loosen, to set free-that UNTY'ING, n. which binds, holds or keeps fast; o resolve, to solve. And thei geden forth & founden a colt tyed before the ate withoute forth in the meeting of tweie weyes and thei Antieden him, and summe of hem that stooden there seiden ohem what doen ye untiynge the colt?-Wiclif. Mark, c.11. And suche a daies be nowe fele In loues courte, as it is saide, That lette her tonges gone unteide.-Gower. Con. A. b. iii. For els I am ouerthrowe In all that euer ye haue seide, My sorowe is euermore vntcide. And secheth ouer all my veynes.-Id. Ib. b. iv. At euery which alarme, the two lordes generall shewed hemselues maruelous ready & forward, insomuch that at The very first alarme, skant wel furnished with any more efence then their shirts, hose, and dublets, & those too Itogether in a maner entied, they were abroad in the streetes hemselues, to see the vttermost of it. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 613. The pleasure I take in her Thus I blow off; the care I took to love her, Like this point, I untie, and thus I loose it; The husband I am to her, thus I sever. Beaum. & Fletch. Woman's Prize, Act iv. sc. 4. 2 Ten. You make of love a riddle, or a chain, A circle, a mere knot; untie't again. Bas. Love is a circle, both the first and last 1 Ten. A true love knot will hardly be untied. Nor must the fable, that would hope the fate Id. Horace. Art of Poetrie. I have shewn also how it unties the inward knot of narriage, which is peace and love (if that can be unty'd which was never knit) while it aims to keep fast the outward formality.-Milton. Doct. & Disc. of Divorce, b. i. c. S. That is the immediate link of the union in such a life; and the untying and death consists chiefly in the disengagenent of the heart, breaking off the affection from it. Leighton. Com. on 1 Peter, c. 2. VOL. II. UNT things in themselves lawful and not unreasonable, and in Dauid at that while was with Edward the kyng, He hadde ymade ful many a marriage Chaucer. Prol. to the Canterbury Tales, v. 215. I am with ye, & wyl be thy keper in al places whither thou goest, & wyl bring the agayne in to this lande: nether wyl I leaue the onlyll I haue made good al that I haue promysed the.-Bible, 1551. Genesis, c. 18. In the former treatyse (deare frende Theophilus) I haue wrytten of all that Jesus beganne to do and teache, vntyll the daye in which he was taken vp. Id. Actes of the Apostles, c. 1. Vnwise and wretched men to weet whats good or ill, We deeme of death as doome of ill desert; But knew we fooles, what it vs brings untill Die would we daily, once it to expert. Spenser. Shepheard's Calender. November. But all so soone, as he from farr descride Those glistring armes, that heauen with light did fill, He rous'd himselfe full blithe, and hastned them entill. Id. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 11. Upon speaking with the master, we learnt that they had the board; so that we were obliged to bear away until they broke their fore-stay, and the gammon of the bowsprit, and were in no small danger of having all their masts come by had made all fast, after which we haled upon a wind again. Anson. Voyages, b. i. c. 8. And if any Trojan came, Obsequious to the will of Hector, arm'd With fire to burn the fleet, on his spear's point Ajax receiving wounded him, until Twelve died in conflict with himself alone. Cowper. Homer. Iliad, b. xv. UN-TILE, v. To remove or take away the tiles, or coverings, (sc. of baked or dried clay.) Jag. Unless you'll drop through the chimney like a daw, or force a breach i' th' windows: you may untile the house, tis possible.-Beaum. & Fletch. Woman's Prize, Act i. sc.3. Not raised, turned, cultivated. UN-TILLED. Į UNTILLABLE. From the seventh day of December till the ninetenth day of March (as Walsingham and other old writers doo report), the ground laie vntild, to the great hinderance and losse of all growing things on the earth. Holinshed. Chronycles of England. Edw. III. an. 1364. UN-TIMBERED. (of strong materials). Cowper. Homer. Iliad, b. i. Not built or constructed Where's then the sawcy boate, Whose weake vntimber'd sides but euen now Co-riuall'd greatnesse! either to harbour fled, Or made a toste for Neptune. Shakespeare. Troyl. & Cress. Act i. sc. 3. UN-TIMELY, adj. UNTIMELY, ad. UNTIMELINESS. UNTIMEOUSLY. Not seasonable, or in good time; too early, too soon. In the se sailand to [Toune], & whan he com to lond R. Brunne, p. 227. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 2. B. Jonson. Cynthia's Revels, Act i. sc. I. UNT Their so frequent martyrdomes, of what excellency or avail, if after all they should be hurried out of this world, and all their fortunes and possessions, by untimely, by disgraceful, by dolorous deaths, to be set before a tribunal, to give account of their universal neglect, and contemning of government of his church. Christ's last testament, in so great an affair, as the whole Bp. Taylor. Episcopacy Asserted, § 22. The proper consequent of this will be, that when the apostle says, Death came in by sin, and that death is the wages of sin, he primarily and literally means the solemnities, and causes, and infelicities, and untimeliness of temporal death; and not merely the dissolution, which is directly no evil, but an inlet to a better state. Id. To the Bishop of Rochester. Here (were there words to express such sentiments with proper tenderness) I should record the beauty, innocence, and untimely death, of the first object my eyes ever beheld with love.-Taller, No. 181. UN-TI'NGED. Not stained, dyed, imbued. In a darkened room it may appear what beams are untinged and which they are that upon the bodies that terminate them do paint either the primary or secondary iris. Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 727. defect, and it is of all others the most mortal to conversaYour inattention I cannot pardon. Pope has the same tion: neither is Bolingbroke untinged with it. Swift to Gay, July 10, 1732. UN-TIRED. Į Not harassed or distressed, UNTIRABLE. vexed or troubled, wearied or fatigued. As in a picture limb'd unto the life, Browne. Britannia's Pastorals, b. ii. s. 1. A son was born; but to prevent that crime, Dryden. Edipus, Act iii sc. 1. When he adds to all this that he will do it right early he intimates to us the particular time, at which such resolutions as these are best executed; 'tis in the morning, the season of devotion, when the mind is fresh and vigorous, un tired with the business of the day, and untainted with ill images and impressions.-Atterbury, vol. iv. Ser. 9 UN-TITLED. aeprived of a name-of honourable distinction, a Not having, being without, or name of distinction. Such be the meed of all, that by such meane Vnto the type of kingdoms title climes. But false Duessa, now entitled queene, Was brought to her sad doome, as heere was to be seene. O natiō miserable! Vnto the se side chaced thei Sir Lowys, & geldes vp alle the bondes of homage & feaute, "I graunt it you," quod she, and right anone I aske respite for to avisen mee. Jesus began to speake unto the people of John: To se what, wet ye out into the wyldernes? went ye out to se a reede shaken wyth the wynde?-Bible, 1551. Matt. c. 11. For unto whome muche is geuen, of him shal be much required.-Id. Luke, c. 12. This being therefore presupposed, from that knowne relation which God hath unto vs. as unto children, and ento all good things as unto effects, whereof himselfe is the principall cause, these axiomes and lawes naturall concerning our dutie haue arisen.-Hooker. Ecclesiasticall Politie, b. i. § 8. How could Ezra heare this with his clothes, his haire, his beard untorne?-Bp. Hall. Cont. Zerubabel & Ezra. And the truth is, that as long as that small remainder of land, belonging to the church shall continue yet unforn from her, and as long as there shall be those about her (as there will ever be very many) who will never think, that they themselves have enough, the church and clergy of England shall always be inveighed against, and struck at as having too much.-South, vol. v. Ser. 10. But Phoebus, pitying even after death UN-TOLD. Not spoken or uttered, related, that may not be fingered, handled; not reached, narrated, or made known. not affected; in any way acted upon or intermeddled with. Certes, were it gold, Or in a poke nobles all untold, Thou shouldest it have, as I am a trewe smith. Chaucer. The Milleres Tale, v. 3779. But I haue against that proued afore that he must mene 20: or elles must haue left his tale vntold. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1009. And all her sisters seeing her sad stowre. Did weep and waile, and made exceeding mone, And all their learned instruments did breake, The rest, vntold, no liuing tongue can speake. Spenser. Teares of the Muses. Three nights I hous'd him, and within my cot Cowper. Homer. Odyssey, b. xvii. UN-TOLERABLE. See INTOLERABLE. That cannot or may not be borne or suffered, supported, sustained, or endured. The pope himselfe is nowe becomme vntolerable. No tyran was ever hable to matche him in pompe, and pride. Jewel. Defence of the Apologie, p. 618. Insomuche as if a manne geue you a blowe vpon the cheke (which is accounted commonlie an untolerable vilanie). ye shal not requite it with a blowe againe, but rather offer the other cheke to bee stricken too.-Udal. Math. c. 5. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. vii. c. 18. UNTO OTHSOMENESS. the tooth; i. e. the taste, the palate. What philosopher durst haue enterpryse to propoune suche thynges as these, so ferre contrarye to all mennes opinion or thinkyng, and thynges so vntouthsome for menne to bee fonde on, or to make anie great countenaunce vnto. Udal. Luke, Pref. The hony of the island Corsica of all other is counted most unpleasant and untoothsome.-Holland. Plinie, b. xiii. c. 4. I speak not of Popish mock-fasts: in change, not in forbearance, in change of courser cates of the land, for the curious dainties of the water, of the flesh of beasts, for the flesh of fish; of untoothsome morsells for sorbitiuncula delicate, as Hierome cals them. Bp. Hall. Sermon before the King, March 30, 1628. So as the dogge, in stead of a beast, findes now nothing but a ball of prickes, to wound his jawes; and goes away crying from so untoothsome a prey. Id. Occasional Meditations, Med. 123. Further Theophylacte saithe, the body of Christe is eaten ; but the Godheade is not eaten bicause it is untoucheable, and vncomprehensible vnto cur senses. Jewell. Defence of the Apologie, p. 239. This one matter is sufficiet to declare the moderacion & clemencye that was then in Alexander: for he did not only pardon Madates, but also left the citie vntouched. Brende. Quintus Curtius, fol. 112. And surely, were not their persons sacred, that is, by the laws of God and man, untouchable as to prejudice; and so, protected against the malice, the envy, the fury, and the rabidness of self-ended man: it would not be an easie matter to conjure him into that enchanting circle. Feltham, pt. ii. Res. 66. For as to the greatest part of them, even those masters of definitions were fain to leave them [simple ideas] untouched, merely by the impossibility they found in it. Locke. Hum. Underst. b. iii. c. 4. Ulysses conscious of his life untouch'd, UN.TO/WARD. UNTO WARDLY. UNTO WARDNESS. Cowper. Homer. Iliad, b. xi. In Gower,-Unto-ward, equivalent to-Toward. In the rest,- Untoward. Not coming to, acceding to, yielding or complying; not docile or tractable, or manageable; averse, perverse, awkward. Gower. Con. A. b. iv. Ye father ofte it hath ben so, That whan I am my ladie fro, And thynke untowarde hir drawe, Than cast I many a newe lawe, And all the worlde tourne vp so downe. The last of this diuision Stant entowarde Septemtrion.-Id. Ib. b. vii. Thou shalte goe afore him to prepaire mennes heartes to the receiuyng of suche a great saluacion, leste if the same coming of the Lorde should fiynde the heartes of menne slouthfully sluggyng, & vtterly untoward, the health that is now offred, might percase be turned into a manyfold castyng away & perishing of the solle -Udal. Luke, c. 1. For ye report that rawe and ragged clause whych ye have vntowardly torne out of hys xxi. homely, in the second tome, to be in the vi. epistle.-Bale. Apologie, fol. 147. We intend no further to instant or press him thereof, but evermore continuing our good mind and affection to join with him (his said untowardness and coldness in that behalf notwithstanding.)-Wyat. By the King, (Hen. VIII.) Let.18. Such is the untoward constitution of our nature, that we doe neither perfectly vnderstand the way and knowledge of the Lord, nor stedfastly imbrace it, when it is vnderstood; Which as many as use, worke their own mischiefe t destruction, dancing (as the proverbe saith) a dance towardly about a pits brinke, or jesting with edged tocles Holland. Plutarch, p. ¤. Even in trees as well as in other living creatures, they is a certaine infelicitie, which may be well tearmed, a drawfish untowardnesse.-Id. Plinie, b. xii. c. 2. Let me embrace my friend. UN-TRA/CED. UNTRACEABLE. UNTRACKED. UNTRACTABLE. UNTRACTABLENESS. UNTRACTABILITY. Untraced, or Ur tracked, not distin. guished, not discerted, by marks formed in pass ing; by paths, by fost steps, or vestiges. Untractable (see INTRACTABLE),-that may not be drawn or led along (in a given way or road; that cannot be managed, guided, or governed. But if he be so vntractable that he wyll be moned neyther with shame, nor with feare of judgemente, than bryg matter to the congregacion.-Udal. Mathew, c. 18. And why is this way narrow but because it is wreck and untrodden? if I may not rather say the way is astracks and found by few, because it is narrow and not ease to tread in.-Bp. Hall. Soliloquies, Sol. 68. But I Toild out my uncouth passage, forc't to ride Th' untractable abyss, plung'd in the womb Of unoriginal night and chaos wilde. Milton. Paradise Lost, b.1 He [God] puts on a rigid, rough and untractable carriage, even towards his dearest children, even then when he ma them most good.-Hales. Rem. Ser. on Luke, xvii. I If the ways of God's universal providence be trace then most of all the workings of his grace are conducted a secret unperceivable way in this new birth. Leighton. Com. on 1 Peter, 1. Who can alone discover the wiles, and fathom the dep of Satan, and track him through all his windings and (otherwise untraceable) labyrinths. Boyle. Works, vol. ii. p. 91. Which great difference in men's intellectuals, whether rises from any defect in the organs of the body, parc adapted to thinking: or in the dullness or unfrac of those faculties for want of use; or, as some think, in the natural differences of men's souls themselves, or some, di all of these together; it matters not here to examine Locke. Hum. Underst. b.iv.c Nor wonder, if (advantag'd in my flight. Cook. Third Foyage, d. vi. c. 14. His [Condorcet] untractability to these leaders, and b figure in the club of jacobins, which at that time th wished to bring under, alone prevented that part of the arrangement.-Burke. Thoughts on French Affairs, (19 UN-TRA'DED. Not frequented or reserted to (for purposes of merchandize or commers; not engaged in commerce.) Our English that to steale the first blessing of an tried place, will perhaps secretly hasten thither, may be be ing to mee for this caueat, if they take notice thereof. |