Of all the Persian forces, one strong squadron, Beaum. & Fletch. Prophetess, Act iv. sc. 5. UN-ROYAL. Not regal or kingly. His envious counsellor, now hated them so much the more, as he foresaw their happiness in having such, and so fortunate masters, and sent them with unroyal reproaches to Musidorus and Pyrocles, as if they had done traiterously, and not heroically.-Sidney. Arcadia, b. ii. UN-RUDE. Un seems here to be used as in unrip, (A. S. On,) augmentatively and not negatively, unless we are to take the speaker and not poet as authority. Because my husband put him into a few rags, and now see how the unrude rascal backbites him! B. Jonson. Every Man out of his Humour, Activ. sc. 1. They have need o'mending: unrude people they are, your courtiers.-Id. Masque of Christmas. UN-RUFFLE, v. To smoothen, to level or become level or smooth, calm, tranquil. and Id. Ib. Where (say you) are those proud towers of their universall hierarchie? one in Lambeth, another in Fulham wheresoever a pontificali prelate is, or his chancellor, coinmissarie, or other subordinate, there is a tower of Babel unruinated.-Bp. Hall. An Apologie against Brownists, § 30. But these you will prove unruinated towers of that Babel. Could thou think that a cottage not too strongly built, and standing so bleak in the very mouth of the winds, could for any long time hold right and unreaved? Yea, dost thou not rather wonder that it hath out-stood so many blustring blasts, thus long, utterly unruined? Id. Balm of Gilead, § 10. May the unruinable world be but my portion, and the heaven of heavens my inheritance, which is built for an eternal mansion for the sons of God. Watts. Remnants of Time, Ess. 9. Theyse vnrulyd cōpany gatheryd vnto them great multytude of the cōmons.-Fabyan. Chronycle, p. 530. Doe you vnderstande, you step-mothers that bee such, that your unruly ire and hate commeth but of the dreams of your owne follie. For why do not step-fathers haue their wines children in like manner. Vives. Instrue. of a Christian Woman, b. ii. c. 12. Ye haue sent oute in the kinges name, against the kings wish, precepts of all kindes, and without commaundement, commaunded his subiectes, and varulilye haue ruled, where ye listed to commaund.-SirJ. Cheeke. The Hurt of Sedition. After riches, foloweth pryde and vnrulines. And among nruly persones, oftentimes arise sectes, whiles neither will geue place vnto an other, but eche man thinketh hymselfe beste. Udal. 1 Cor. The Argument. [Aulus Atticus] being mounted on horsebacke (through his owne too much youthfull courage, and fierce vnrulines of his horsse) was carried into the middle throng of his enimies, and there slaine. Holinshed. Historie of England, b. iv. c. 17. But say that one bee so bold as to charge them with any untoward dealing; out they crie presently upon the poore patients, at them they raile with open mouth, they are found fault with for their unrulinesse, distemperature, wilfulnesse, and I know not what. Holland. Plinie, b. xxix. c. 1. They breaking forth with rude vnruliment Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 9. And when that plenty had pampered them into such an unruliness and rebellion, as soon followed it; yet still the justness of his government left them at a loss for an occasion.-South, vol. v. Ser. 2. By our shunning to consider, we are so ill-natured to our selves, as to lengthen the sickness, we are so impatient of; which is in us as foolish, as it would be in a nice patient, after having been made to take a bitter, but a salutary potion, to send unseasonably for cordials and juleps to hinder the working of it, and so by such unruliness lose the benefit of the operation, and lengthen his pain and sickness. Boyle. Works, vol. ii. p 374. Young men, like the spirited and unruly steed, require to be curbed and guided by a strong bridle. Knox, vol. vi. Ser. 13. UN-RUMPLE, v. To remove or take away, the roughness, ruggedness, or unevenness. Nor would I pass the soft acanthus o'er, Ivy nor myrtle-trees that love the shore; Nor daffodils, that late from earth's slow womb Unrumple their swoln buds, and show their yellow bloom. Addison. Virgil. Georgies, b. iv. Cloe. How have I wrong'd the times, or men, that thus After this holy feast 1 pass unknown And unsaluted? 'twas not wont to be Beaum. & Fletch. Faithful Shepherdess, Act iL. I shall not leave you nusaluted long UN-SA'CKED. Not pillaged or plundered. } - UN-SAD. UNSA'DDEN, V. UNSA'DNESS. Unsadness, (Wiclif)-infirmity, or infirmness; consequentially, weakness (as in the Mod. Ver.) For he witnessith, that thou art a preeste withouten ende bi the ordre of Melchisedech: that repreuyng of the maundement bifore goynge is maad for the unsadnesse (infirmitas] and unprofyt of it.-Wiclif. Ebrewis, c. 7. O stormy peple, unsad, and ever untrewe, Chaucer. The Clerkes Tale, v. 8872. Musick unsaddens the melancholy, quickens the dull, awaketh the drowsy. Whitlock. Manners of the English, p. 483. UN-SA'DDLED. A. S. Un-ge-sadelad. Not seated or sat upon; not having the saddle or seat on, placed on. In which repose It seemeth to take no small contentment and refreshing; like as draught horses, when they be out of their geeres, and hackneis unsaddled. Holland. Plinie, b. xvii. c. 3. Bel. Read that, and tell me so: or if thy spectacles be not easie, Keep thy nose unsadl'd, and ope thine ears; inviolate. Some few themselves in sanctuaries hide, Drayton. Barons' Wars, s. 61. He then who by that law brings tithes into the gospel, of necessity brings in withal a sacrifice, and an altar; without which tithes by that law were unsanctify'd and polluted. Milion. On the Removal of Hirelings. Our Saviour who knew the duties of a teacher far better than the proudest of the sophists or philosophers, professedly and particularly preached his gospel to the poor; that is to the inany, the vulgar, the ignorant, the miserable, those whom worldly grandeur, worldly wisdom, and unsanctifed science were, at all times, apt to neglect and despise. Knox. Winter Evenings, Even. 28. Not authorized, or UN-SANCTIONED. ratified. The boldest efforts unsanctioned by reason, eannot be acceptable to reasonable beings. They generate into extravagancies that displease and disgust. Cogan. Ethical Treatise on the Passions, Note M. UN-SA'NDALED. Not having or wearing Beaum. & Fletch. Maid in the Mill, Act iv. sc. 2. sandals, shoes to the soles of the feet. UN-SAFE. UNSAFELY. UNSAFETY. } Not removed from harm, ill, or danger; not secure. The topick of traditions, after the consignation of the canon of scripture, was not only of little use in any thing, but false in many things, and therefore unsafe in all questions.-Bp. Taylor. Rule of Conscience, b. ii. c. 3. But if it [ostentation] be carried with decency and government, as with a natural, pleasant, and ingenuous fashion, or at times when it is mixed with some peril and unsafety, as in military persons, or at times when others are most envied.-Bacon. Advancement of Learning, b. ii. But wiser men, perceiving the unsafety and vanity of these, and all external things, have cast about for some higher course.-Leighton. Com. on 1 Peter, c. 3. The bottom of this road is full of sharp pointed coral rocks, which, during four months of the year, that is from the middle of June to the middle of October, render it a very unsafe anchorage.-Anson. Voyages, b. iii. c. 2. Which would if they coulde bring it to passe, haue all women naught, that they might the more easily fullfill their unsatiable lustes. Vives. Instruction of a Christian Woman, b. i. c. 12. As thys weche ones grewe to conuenyent age, her bewtie so tägled his fleshely harte, that he vnsalyably brent in her concupiscens.-Bule. English Votaries, pt. ii. Then followed this sentence, " Four things follow cove tousness. 1. Unsutiableness, being never contented," &c. Strype. Eccles. Mem. Edw. VI. an. 1548. There is an innumerable yoong frie of the flying fishes, which commonly keepe about the ship, and are not so big as butter-flies, and yet by flying do auoid the vnsatiablenesse of the bonito.-Hackiuyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 521. Now since in thee is none other reason, Displease thee not if that I do refrain; Unsatiate of my woe, and thy desire! I was content thy servant to remain, But nor to be payed under this fashion. Wyatt. The Lover forsaketh his unkind Love. Sir Gr. Is this in earnest, lady? Neece. Oh unsatiable! Dost thou count all this but an earnest yet? Beaum. & Fletch. Wit at Several Weapons, Act iii. Though it be dangerous to raise too great an expectation, especially in works of this nature, where we are to please an unsatiable audience, yet 'tis reasonable to prepossess them in favour of an author.-Id. Oedipus, Pref. From plots and seasons Heav'n preserve my years, Id. Juvenal, Sat. 6. If or finde not this passage of repentance and hearty sorrow 'twixt God and his own soul, let him know that God is yet unsatisfied, that he is yet in his sin. Hales. Rem. Ser. Matt. xxvi. 75. Our blessed Saviour, knowing the unsatisfiable angers of men if their money or estates were meddled with, refused to divide an inheritance amongst brethren. Bp. Taylor, vol. iii. Ser. 7. That they do so understand also the vanity and the unsatisfyingness of the things of this world, so that the relish, which could not be great but in a great understanding, appears contemptible, because its vanity appears at the same time.-Id. vol. ii. Ser. 18. [The Holy Ghost] hath represented the vanity of worldly desires, the unsatisfyingness of earthly possessions, the blessing of being denied our impertinent, secular, and indiscreet requests.-Id. Forms of Liturgie, § 38. He that sets his love upon the creature, or any result from it, as honour, wealth, reputation, power, wife, children, friends, cannot possibly avoid discontent or impatience, for they are mutable, uncertain, unsatisfactory good, subject to casualities.-Hale. Cont. Of Contentedness & Patience. We have laid all these things together, and have seriously considered of the mean valuation of all these earthly things, for their transitoriness, unsatisfaction, danger. Bp. Hall. Of Contentation, § 16. Dost thou complain, who hast enjoy'd my store? But this is still th' effect of wishing more! Unsatisfy'd with all that nature brings; Loathing the present, liking absent things. Dryden. Lucretius, b. i. We may elsewhere, by the assistance of that [divine] author, have an opportunity to give you an account of our unsatisfiedness with the attempts made by some bold wits in favour of such preteusions.-Boyle. Works, vol. ii. p. 36. Nor is fame also unsatisfying in itself, but the desire of it lays us open to many accidental troubles, which those are free from who have not such a tender regard for it. Spectator, No. 256. Yet even he with pathetical reiteration pronounces all to be vanity and vexation of spirit: altcgether unprofitable and unsatisfactory to the mind of man. Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 14. The unsatisfactoriness and barrenness of the schoolphilosophy have persuaded a great many learned men, especially physicians, to substitute the chymists three principles instead of those of the schools. Boyle. Works, vol. iii. Pref. Those, lastly, which are found in the possession of welldirected tastes and desires, compared with the dominion of tormenting, pernicious, contradictory, unsatisfied, and unsatisfiable passions.-Paley. Natural Theology, c. 26. When he [an evil man] is observed, he is ashamed; and when he has done, he is unsatisfied; and when he pursues his sin, he does it in the dark.-Knox. Christian Phil. § 6. But ye thought not of heavenly things; ye were ingulphed in earthly things, and ye have found them, as all others have done who have trusted in them, delusive and unsatis factory.-Knox, vol. vi. Ser. 5. UN-SAVOURY. UNSA'VOURI UNSA'VOURINESS. } Not agreeable or pleasing to the taste or smell; not well flavoured or relishing. Ac here sauce was over soure, and unsavourliche grounde In a morter post mortem. of meny bitere peynes. Piers Plouhman, p. 244. But the bread they make there, is certaine cakes made of rootes called Cassaui, which is something substantiall, but it hath but an vnsauorie taste in the eating thereof. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 448. With these and such like, they plaister all the hive within throughout, as it were with a coat or parget, entermingling withall other juices that are more unsavorie. Holland. Plinie, b. xi. c. 6. Nor would I, you should melt away yourself B. Jonson. Every Man in his Humour, Act i. sc. 1. So often and so unsavourily has it been repeated, that the reader may well cry, down with it, down with it for shame.-Milton. Animad. on the Remonstrants' Defence. If we conceive a national unsavouriness in any people, yet shall we find the Jewes less subject hereto than any, and that in those regards which most powerfully concur to such affects, that is, their diet and generation. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iv. c. 10. The flesh of both young and old is lean and black, yet very good meat, tasting neither fishy, nor any way unsavory. Dampier. Voyages, an. 1683. Hard fare! but such as boyish happiness Disdains not; nor the palate, undeprav'd By culinary arts, unsav'ry deems.-Cowper. Task, b. i. UN-SAY, v. Not to utter, or give utterance to; not to speak or tell, relate or rehearse; to gainsay; to deny anything before said. Though thei be content to sage sometime the fyftene psalmes, and ouer that the psalmes of the passion to, if they finde them all faire sette out in order at length: yet wil they rather leaue the all unsayed, then turne backe to seke theim out in other parties of their primer. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 931. Death, I recant, and say, unsaid by me Donne. On Mistress Boulstred. [My contemporaries have] a most happy art in saying and unsaying, giving hints of intelligence, and interpretations of indifferent actions, to the great disturbance of the brains of ordinary readers.-Tatler, No. 178. It means that you can say and unsay things at pleasure. Goldsmith. She Stoops to Conquer, Act v. UN-SCA'LY. Unscaly, having no scales, UNSCA'LED. i. e. small separate pieces, UNSCA'LEABLE. forming the cover or coat of a fish. Unscaling (Milton),-removing, clearing away, the scales or small particles growing over the eye and impeding vision. Unscaleable, that cannot be climbed (by ladder, of separate slides;) that cannot be ascended. Now had the king appointed for euerie one of their chambers one man apparelled in garments pretilie deuised and made of fish skins vnskaled. Holinshed. Historie of Scotland. Alpine. -Your isle, which stands As Neptunes parke, ribb'd, and pal'd in With uakes enskaleable, and roaring waters, With sands that will not beare your enemies boates, But suck them vp to th' top-mast. Shakespeare. Cymbeline, Act iii. sc. 1. 1 Methinks I see her as an eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazl'd eyes at the ful mid-day beam purging and unscaling her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance.-Millon. Areopagitica. Red speckled trouts, the salmon's silver jowl, sured. UN-SCA'RED. Not terrified or affrighted. Time was when in the pastoral retreat Th' unguarded door was safe; men did not watch T' invade another's right, or guard their own. Then sleep was undisturb'd by fear; unscar'd By drunken howlings. Couper. Task, b. iv. UN-SCA'RRED. Not sheared, cut, or divided; not wounded, or lacerated, or pierced. So she may liue vnscarr'd of bleeding slaughter, I will confesse she was not Edward's daughter. And let the vnscurr'd braggerts of the warre Id. Timon of Athens, Act iv. sc. 3. 'Tis vnmanly greefe, It shewes a will most incorrect to Heauen, A heart vnfortified, a minde impatient, Shakespeare. Hamlet, Act ii. sc. 2 But the full summe of me Is sum of nothing: which to terme in grosse, Id. Merchant of Venice, Act iii. sc. 2. I grant they were (Paui excepted) the rest, ignorant, poore, simple, un-schooled altogether and vnlettered men. Hooker. Ecclesiasticall Politie, b. iv. § 14. Notwithstanding these learned disputants, it was to theunscholastick statesman, that the world owed their peace and liberties.-Locke. UN-SCIENCE. Not knowledge; ignorance. If that any wighte wene a thyng, to been otherwise than it is, it is not onely tuscience (non modo scientia non est] but it is deceivable opinion. full diuers and farre fro the sothe of science -Chaucer. Boecins, b. v. UN-SCORCHED. Not having (the surface or skin) burnt. Though thou could'st buzze about the flame, Few safely play with edge-tooles. Warner. Albion's England. b. xi. c. 68 But this new gouernor or Awakes me all the inrolled penalties UN-SCRATCHED. Not having the surface broken or torn by rubbing or scraping. But on the sight of vs your lawfull king, We painefully with much expedient march And although they have done no good, yet they are all that which God loves, they are his image undefiled, unscratch'd, unbroken by any act or consent of their own. Bp. Taylor. Liberty of Prophesying. § 18. UN-SCREW, v. The dramatist means,-to loosen that which is wound or twisted close or tight. I should curse my fortune Even at the highest, to be made the ginne To unscrew a mother's love unto her son. Beaum. & Fletch. Queen of Corinth, Act iii. sc.1. They can the cabinets of kings unscrue, Howell. Verses, Pref. to Let. UN-SCRIPTURAL. Not according or agreeable to the (sacred) scriptures or writings. The result was, the preferring the old Sabellian before the late Socinian construction: and yet that is as manifestly unscriptural, false, and groundless, as either Socinian or Arian.-Waterland. Works, vol. ii. p. 61. UN-SEAL, v. To remove the seal, i.e. that which closes (any thing intended to be kept safe or secret) or keeps shut; thus, to open, to discover or disclose. Than Symonye and Cyvyle, stod forth bothe And unseeld that feffement-Piers Plouhman, p. 27. Seilde is the poure ryght riche bote of hus ryght heritage He wynneth nat whit whyghtes fals. ne whit unselide mesures.-Id. p. 269. So he toke the letters unsealed, and retourne into Englande agayne assoone as he might. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 425. If this preserve thee not, I must unseal Beaum. & Fletch. The Coronation, Act ii. Thrice warn'd awake, said he; relief is late, Dryden. Cock & the Fox. Which neu'r shooke hands, nor bad farewell to him, Shakespeare. Macbeth, Acti. sc. 2. But look thee Martius, nor a vein runs here Beaum. & Fletch. Moral Representations. One gallant steed is stretch'd a mangled corse; 1 A the highnesse of the richessis of the wisdom and of kunnyng of God, hou yncomprehensible ben hise domes? and hise weies ben unserchuble.-Wiclif. Rom. c. 11. To me leest of alle seyntis this grace is ghouun to preche among hethen men the unsearchable richessis of Crist. Id. Effesies, c. 3. Unto me the least of all say nctes is thys grace giue, that I should preach amonge the Gentyls the ensearchable ryches of Chryst.-Bible, 1551. Ib. Therfore thinke they yt God did not appoynte him to much as his vnsearcheable wisedome demed to be most suffer so much paine as euer any martir did, but euen so conueniente.-Sir T. More. Workes, p 1368. Neither was there any yce towards the North, but a great sea, free, large, very salt and blew, & of an vnsearchable depth.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 220. Richard Gray, chattelaine of Douer castell, a right valiant man and a faithfull, suffered no man to passe that waie vnsearched. Holinshed. Chron, of England. Hen. III. an. 1258. He who without warrant, but his own fantastic surmise, takes upon him perpetually to unfold the secret and unsearchable mysteries of high providence, is likely for the most part to mistake and slander them. Millon. Answer to Eikon Basilike, § 26. The unsearchableness of God's ways should be a bridle to restrain presumption, and not a sanctuary for spirits of error. Bramhall. Answer to Hobbs. And the friendship Between him and your noble brother known, His house in reason cannot pass unsearcht, And that's the principal cause that drew me hither, To hasten his remove. Beaum. & Fletch. Lover's Progress, Act iv. Then would they only labour to extend Their now unsearching spir't beyond these bounds Of others' pow'rs, wherein they must be pen'd. Daniel. Musophilus. 'Tis all the mighty working of the gods, Unsearchable and dark to human eye. Rowe Ulysses, Act iv. And though it is a laudable ambition to search what may be known of these matters, yet it is a vast hindrance to the enrichment of our understandings, if we spend too much of our time and pains among infinites and unsearchables. Watts. Logick, pt. i. c. 6. § 1. UN-SEASONABLE. UNSEASONED. timely, not opportune. That cannot be, that is not, fitted or suited to the time, to the occasion; not Unseasoned, not fitted or prepared for use, for keeping; not matured or inured by time, or exercise, or habit. Take measure in langage, wisedome in grose, Imputed to Chaucer. The Craft of Lovers. How onely by meanes of the unseasonable times in the returne from the voyage home, many thereby haue decayed, to the great misery and calamity of the rest, and also to the great slander of the voyage (which I much respect) the last and other voyages haue declared. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. ii. p. 53. And so ready was the Lord to dooe good & to help al men, that he neuer did so much as laie for his excuse the importunitie or vnseasonablenesse of time.-Udal. Luke, c. 4. Wherfore the hinderance by rot is rather to be ascribed to the unseasonablenes & moisture of the weather in summer. Holinshed Description of England, b. iii. Bad is that housholder and master of a family, who doth that in the day which might be don by night, unlesse unseasonable weather drive him to it. Holland. Plinie, b. xviii. c. 6. He repented him too late of what he had begun, who had unseasonably made the wound to fester, which in the beginning might easily have been healed. Camden. Hist. of Q. Elizabeth, (1560.) Sir, 'tis a sign you make no stranger of me, To bring these renegados to my chamber, At these unseason'd hours. Beaum. & Fletch. Philaster, Act ii. Seriousness has its beauty whilst it is attended with cheerfulness and humanity, and does not come in unseasonably to pall the good humour of those with whom we converse.-Spectator, No. 598. Neither do men more naturally drive away flies that buz about their ears, and molest them in their employments, than they with disdain repel such immodest and unseason able meddlers in their affairs.--Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 3. They [Fielding's works] are highly entertaining, and will always be read with pleasure; but they likewise disclose scenes which may corrupt a mind unseasoned by experience. Knoz. Ess. No. 14, UN-SEAT, v. To remove, to throw from, the seat or saddle. His horse, as he had caught his master's mood, Snorting, and starting into sudden rage, Unbidden, and not now to be controll'd, Rush'd to the cliff, and, having reach'd it, stood. At once the shock unseated him: he flew Sheer'd o'er the craggy barrier.-Cowper. Task, b. vi. aided or assisted by another (a second person). UN-SE CONDED. Not assisted, supported, And him, O wondrous! him, O miracle of men! Him did you leaue (Second to none) vn-seconded by you, To look vpon the hideous god of warre, In dis aduantage.-Shakespeare. 2Pt. Hen. IV. Act ii. sc.3. You may not hope that so many learned and eminent divines, who find themselves equally interessed in this quarrell, can suffer either so just a cause unseconded, or so high insolence unchastised. Bp. Hall. Answer to Vindic. of Smectymnuus, § 3. Unseconded by art, the spinning race Draw the bright thread in vain, and idly toil. UN-SE/CRET. Į Thomson. Liberty, Not kept apart, out of UNSE CRETING, n. sight or knowledge; not private, concealed, hidden. My thoughts were like vnbrideled children grow Shakespeare. Troyl. & Cres. Act iii. sc. 2. The Brigantes attempting new matters, drew him back to settle first what was unsecure behind him. Milton. Hist. of England, b. ii. UN-SEDUCED. Not drawn or led aside, apart or away; not withdrawn, misled, allured. If shee remaine raseduc'd, you not making it appeare otherwise for your ill opinion, and th' assault you have made to her chastity, you shall answer me with your sword. Shakespeare. Cymbeline, Act i. sc. 5. UN-SEE'DED. Not sown. No fleecy flocks dwell there, nor plough is known, UN-SEEMING, UNSEEMLY. UNSEE'MLINESS. Cowper. Homer. Odyssey, b. ix. Not looking or appear ing, (sc. as it ought to look or appear;) not suitable or becoming or comely; not pleasing to see or perceive. Thei did a foule trespas, it was vnsemly thing. And if he liue, he mote him bynde Of women is the ensemelieste.-Gower. Con. A. b. i. In stede of circumcision, cutte out of the mynde superfluous and vnsemynge desyres.-Udal. Romaines, c. 12. And [he] prayed his wyfe of help in yt tyme of nede, & yt she wold, i al yt she myghte, make her selfe as fowle & as vnsemely as she coude.-Fabyan. Chrongele, c. 194. Lette them quietly worke also, getting their luyng with their owne handes, rather than to be greuouse vnto ether with shameles crauinges & ensemelines.—Udal, 2 Thess c. 3. O! all is gone: and all that goodly glee, Which wont to be the glory of gay wits, Is layd abed, and no where now to see; And in her roome unseemly sorrow sits. Spenser. Teares of the Muses, Here he [Gardiner] fel into such a great rage, as was told me [Mountain] by one of his own men, as was unseeming for a bishop: and with great speed sent for the knight marshal.-Strype. Eccles. Mem. Q. Mary, (1554.) Prin. You doe the king my father too much wrong. And wrong the reputation of your name, In so vnseeming to confesse receyt Of that which hath so faithfully beene paid Shakespeare. Loues Labour Lost, Act 11. so. 1 There is an unseemly accident happening otherwiles to UN-SENT. Not caused to go or come; not the head, and disgraceth it much, called Alopecia, when as required or commanded to go or come. the haire unnaturally falleth off. Holland Plinie, b. xxv. c. 11. Ar unseemly reflection upon what are emphatically called the sacrifices of God, in that very place, as vastly preferable to material sacrifices.-Waterland. Works, vol. viii. p. 183. Le vse thee kindly, for thy mistris sake I should haue scratch'd out your vnseeing eyes, Shakespeare. Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act iv. sc. 4. Take heed you steer your vessel right, my son, Dryden. Spanish Fryar, Act iv. But if the conqueror of whom I speak fast. Our fortune rolls as from a smooth descent, Dryden. Absalom & Achitophel. UN-SELFISH. Not pertaining or relating to self; not partial to, subservient to-self, or the interests or pleasures of self. He twits them with his acts of grace; proud, and un-selfknowing words in the mouth of any king who affects not to be a God, and such as ought to be as odious in the ears of a free nation. Milton: Answer to Eikon Basilike, §9. The most interested cannot purpose any thing so much to their own advantage, notwithstanding which the inclination is nevertheless unselfish.-Spectator. UN-SELY. See UNSILLY. UN-SEMINARED. Without seed. 'Tis well for thee, That being unseminar'd, thy freer thoughts Shakespeare. Anthony & Cleopatra, Act i. sc. 5. UN-SE'NSED. UNSE'NSIBLE. UNSENSIENT. Not having sense, or feeling, or perception; sense or meaning. See INSENSATE. The tother, an inwarde sacramente or sacramentall sygne unsensible, whyche none of the remnaunt haue. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1332. But to avoid the trial there, they tell you the scripture is bat a dead letter, unsenced characters, words without sence, or unsenced.-Bp. Taylor. Diss. from Popery, pt. ii. b. i. § 2. And against their own discipline, which they boast to be ne throne and scepter of Christ, [they] absolve him, unconLound him, though unconverted, unrepentant, unsensible of all their precious saints and martyrs whose blood they have su oft laid upon his head. Milton. Tenure of Kings & Magistrates. We do not mean by mysteries, positions altogether unintelligible, or that carry no idea at all with them: we do not njean unsensed characters, or empty sounds: but we mean propositions contained in general terms, which convey as general ideas, not descending to particulars. Waterland. Works, vol. v. p. 14. But if we take along with us our foregoing distinction between percipience and perceptivity, we may admit a sentient composed of unsentient parts, yet deny that such composition could consist solely of matter, but must contain one perceptive ingredient to receive the notices brought by the rest. Search. Light of Nature, vol. ii. pt. i. c. 6. judged. But I Am guiltless of election of mine eyes, Beam. & Fletch. Two Noble Kinsmen, Act v. sc. 1. UN-SE PARABLE. See INSEPARABLE. That UNSE PARABLY. Scannot be put alone; that cannot be divided, disjoined, disunited, dissociated. For he is not onelye man but also God, and with his holye bodye and bloude is al- his holy soule, and with both hys bodye and soule, ioyned his enseperable godheadde, and of hym hys father and their holy spirite is all one godheadde, and therefore there present all three. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1337. And to entertain a little their overweening arrogance as best befitted, and to amaze them yet further, because they thought it no hard matter to fulfil the law, he draws them up to that unseparable institution which God ordain'd in the beginning before the fall, when man and woman were both perfect, and could have no cause to separate. Millon. Doct. & Disc. of Divorce, b. ii. c. 9. And we shall find there his own authority, giving other manner of reasons why such firm union is to be in matrimony; without which reasons, their being male and female can be no cause of joining them unseparably: for if it be, then no adultery can sever.-Id. Tetrachordon. It is easily seen, that those things which a man useth himself unto, so that they seem to become another nature; yet some desuetude from them evidences to him, that they are not so necessary and unseperable as he once thought them.-Hale. Cont. Of Self-Denial. Though there be several ways, besides precipitations, of divorcing substances, that seem very strictly, if not unseparably united; yet by precipitation alone, if a man have the skill to choose proper precipitants, several separations may not only be made, but be easily and thoroughly made, that every one would not think of. Boyle. Works, vol. iv. p. 198. UN-SE PULCHRED. Not buried. the performance of offices; not duly performed; not aided, assisted, benefited, profited. The churche is brent, the priest is slaine, Gower. Con. A. b. iii. Nor sait Paule, though he would haue them labour for knowledge, meaneth not yet they shall leaue the sacramentes vnserued which God hath taught, till he teach them the knowledge why he taught the, & what speciall signification euery sacrament and ceremony had. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 496. Immediately the duke sendeth forth to inquire of his wealth and if it be so proued, he shall be called before the duke, and it shall bee sayd vnto him, friend, you haue too much liuing, and are vnseruiceable to your prince, lesse will serue you, and the rest will serue other men that are more able to serue.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 240. The beast impatient of his smarting wound, And of so fierce and forcible despight, Thought with his wings to flie aboue the ground; But his late wounded wing unseruiceable found. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 11. The great ships, set forth at vast charges, when the wind failed, were wholly unserviceable, and lay exposed to the shot of the enemy. Camden. History of Q. Elizabeth, an. 1599. The supposition of essences that cannot be known, and the making of them nevertheless to be that which distinguishes the species of things, is wholly useless, and unserviceable to any part of our knowledg Locke. Hum. Underst. b. iii. c. 3. It does not enlarge the dimensions of the globe, or lie idly and unserviceably there, but part of it is introduced into the plants which grow thereon, and the rest either remounts again, with the ascending vapour, or is wash'd down into rivers.-Woodward. Natural History. It [pleasure] is more transitory than the shortest life, it dies in the very enjoyment, yet it may conduce to our wise and good practice in respect thereto, by tempering the sweetness thereof, yea souring its relish to us; minding us of its insufficiency and unserviceableness to the felicity of a mortal creature.--Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 14. UN-SET. Removed from, out of, its place or position; not put, or placed, or stationed, in its natural or appropriate place or position. They vrge that God left nothing in his word vndescribed, whether it concerned the worship of God or outward politie, nothing unset-downe, and therefore charged them strictly to keepe themselues vnto that, without any alteration. Hooker. Ecclesiasticall Politie, b. iii, § 11. An unset bone is better than a bone so ill set that it must be broken again to double the pain of the patient. Fuller. Worthies. General. To remove from its place or position; to loosen from its hold, from its firmness; to shake its stedfastness or constancy, or equability, (met.) the firmness, resolution, decision. They [transitory parlaments] are much likelier conto breed commotions, changes, novelties and uncertainties. Milton. Way to estab. a Free Com. tinually to unsettle rather than to settle a free government, The difficulty was not in the stile, but in the subject matter; nor there indeed, as they are in themselves, so much as by the ignorance and instability, or unselledness of foolish people. Bp. Taylor. Dissuasive from Popery, pt. ii. § 2. This news made our unsetled crew wish, that they had been persuaded to accept of Captain Eaton's company on reasonable terms.-Dampier. Voyages, an. 1684. [I leave it to be considered] whether it would not be well that the use of words were made plain and direct, and that language, which was given us for the improvement of knowledge and bend of society, should not be employed to darken truth, and unsettle people's rights; to raise mists, and render unintelligible both morality and religion? Locke. Hum. Underst. b. iii. c. 10. [St. Paul] whose life was spent in continual agitation and settledness, in all hardships of travel and labour and care, in extreme sufferance of all pains both of body and mind. Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 15. There is a great unsettlement of mind and corruption of manners, generally diffused over people.-Id. vol. i. Ser. 17. The not doing of which, I am sure, has ruined the peace of this poor church, and shook it into such unsettlements, that the youngest person alive, is not like to see it recovered to its full strength, vigour and establishment. South, vol. x. Ser. 9. What the prophet Elijah said to the Israelites belongs between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow hum: but equally to all of this unsettled character: How long halt ye if Baal, then follow him.-Secker, vol. ii. Ser. 18. UN-SEVE'RE. Not rigid or rigorous; not austere or strict. Some sects of men are very angry against servants for recreating and easing their labours with a less prudent and unsevere refreshment.-Bp. Taylor, vol. ii. Ser. 22. UN-SEVERED. Not sundered or divided, disunited, disjoined, disparted. I haue heard you say, Honor and policy, like vnseuer'd friends, I' th' warre do grow together: Grant that, and tell me Shakespeare. Coriolanus, Act iii. sc. 2. He gave, with previous pray'r, to Maia's son Cowper. Homer. Odyssey, b. xiv. UN-SEX, v. To remove or destroy the distinguishing characteristicks of sex. Come you spirits That tend on mortall thoughts, unsex me here, Of direst crueltie: make thick my blood, Stop vp th' accesse, and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keepe peace betweene Th' effect, and hit [it].-Shakespeare. Macbeth, Act i. sc.5. Is it for this the Spanish maid, aroused, Byron. Childe Harold, c. 1. UN-SHACKLE, v. To free from fetters, from impediment or obstruction. 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 publick good. Addison. No-yours my forfeit blood and breath- UN-SHA'DED. Į UNSHADOWED. Faire as unshaded light, or as the day In its first birth, when all the year was May: Davenant. To the Queen. Shining with all her beams, with all her rays; UN-SHA'KEABLE. UNSHA'KED. UNSHA'KEN. UNSHOO'K. Daniel. Musophilus. That cannot be agitated; moved quickly to and fro; caused to totter, or tremble; have the firmness or fixedness loosened or disturbed. But hereafter when this feith shall haue gathered strength, that it maie be hable to stande stable and vnshaken againste all temptacions of the deuil, thou shalt be called Cephas, which in Greke is as muche to saie as Petre, in Latine, Saxum, and in English, a stone.-Udal. John, c. 1. Yet in the number, I do know but one Shakespeare. Julius Cæsar, Act iii. sc. 1. [We have] by a due and impartial distribution, assigned to God the prerogative of God, and to Cæsar the prerogative that is Cæsar's; and withall, pitched the obligation of human laws upon a firm, and unshakeable basis. South, vol. v. Ser. 5. A bottom so firm and sure for Christianity to rest upon, that it cannot be placed upon a surer and more unshakable. Id. vol. iv. Ser. 8. But should that most unshaken rule of morality, and foundation of all social virtue, "that one should do as he would be done unto," be proposed to one that never heard it before, but yet is of capacity to understand its meaning, might he not without any absurdity ask a reason why? Locke. Hum. Underst. b. i. c. 3. Let peals of laughter, Codrus! round thee break, Thou unconcern'd canst hear the mighty crack: Pit, box, and gall'ry in convulsions hurl'd, Thou stand'st unshook amidst a bursting world. Pope. Prologue to Satires. Chief for their fearless hearts the glory waits, Long months from land, while the black stormy night Around them rages, on the groaning mast With unshook knee to know their giddy way. Thomson. Liberty, pt. iv. We will walk by faith, not by sight; and preserve our loyalty to our Lord and our God, unshaken by the false opinions and bad customs of a thoughtless world, by the cravings of sensual appetites, and the tumults of irregular passions and fancies.-Secker, vol. ii. Ser. 26. But who may expresse the unshamefaced arrogat boldenes and serpentine fraudes of anticryste. Joye. Exposicion of Daniel, p. 145. But ye high mass to be veri like ye same harlot which doeth craftely abuse the honest name of an husbad, to hide her vnshamefastnes, & to reteyn & defend the estimacio of an honest & chaste wife. Caluin. Fovre Godlye Sermons, Ser. 1. For the lacke of maners in the state of a lord ingendreth vnshamefastnesse in him, and boldnesse to the seruaunt. Golden Boke, c. 45. But oh Lord God, what unshamefulnesse is this? thus to Barnes. Workes, p. 201. delude with wordes all the whole worlde? We are not yet become impudent, neither altogither haue cast off vnshamefastnesse, sith that in a great manie some remainder of our ancient sobernesse and manhood dooth yet appeare.-Holinshed. Description of Scotland, c. 13. The brave man seeks not popular applause, Dryden. Palamon & Arcite, b. iii. Hither Ulysses hastes (so fates command) It is an alarming proof of the spirit of despotism, when the great are eager to rush into war, when they listen to no terms of accommodation, and scorn to negotiate, in any mode or degree, previously to unsheathing the dreadful instrument of slaughter.-Knox. Spirit of Despotism, § 30. UN-SHED. In Spenser,-On-shed, or Enshed, (see UNRIP, UNREAVE.) In Byron, not dispersed, not spilt. And his faire locks, that wont with oytment sweet Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 7 Upon her face there was the tint of grief, UN-SHE'LLED. newly hatched. Byron. The Dreame. Not protected by a shell; Minicio's and Manto's glorious son behold, On iron pennons borne, the blood stained vulture cleaves Th' immortal Virgil, sheath'd in foreign gold, the storm-yet is the plumage closest to her heart soft as Shines out unsham'd, and towers above the rest, the sygnet's down, and o'er her unshelled brood the murIn the rich spoils of godlike Homer drest. Pitt. Vida. Art of Poetry, b. ii. muring ring-dove sits not more gently. Sheridan. Pizarro, Act iv. sc. 1. UN-SHAPE, v. To put out of shape, or UN-SHELTERED. Not covered, protected, form, or order; to deform, to disorder, to discompose. She groneth dailye in bringing foorth children yet unshapen, and vnperfeicte, vntil thei shall haue receiued the spirite of the gospel, and vntil Christ bee brought to perfeict shape in them.-Udal. Luke, c. 7. Ang. Good night. This deede vnshapes me quite, makes me vnpregnant Shakespeare. Meas. for Meas. Act iv. sc. 4. Yet the unshaped vse of it doth moue The hearers to collection.-Id. Hamlet, Activ. sc. 5. UN-SHA'RED. Not divided, parted, partaken or apportioned. Under this sable marble of thine own, Sleep, rare tragedian, Shakespeare, sleep alone : Thy unmolested peace, in an unshared cave, Possess as lord, not tenant of thy grave. W. Basse. Elegy on Shakespeare. Godhead for thee Chiefly I sought, without thee can despise. For bliss as thou hast part, to me is bliss, Tedious, unshar'd with thee, and odious soon. Milton. Paradise Lost, b. ix. UN-SHATTERED. Not scattered, separated, or dispersed. Vaine fooles, what is a finite power in the hands of an infinite where there is an equality of force, there may be hard tugging; but where brasse meets with clay, how can that brittle stuffe escape unshattered? Bp. Hall. Ser. Ps. Ixviii. 30. UN-SHAVEN. Not cut or sheared. And therefore, though beefore those ceremonyes vsed, priestes myghte consecrate vnshauen & vnannoynted when shauynge and annoyntynge was not yet instituted: yet nowe can there none done so, syth there is no priest made vnshauen and vnannoynted.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 430. And we find the statua of the sun was framed with raies about the head, which were the indeciduous and unshaven locks of Apollo. Sir T. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. v. c. 21. UN-SHEATH, v. To remove from, to draw out of, the case or cover, the scabbard. This sword, which fate commands me to unsheath, Yet never was king less in danger of any violence from his subjects, till he unsheath'd his sword against them; nay after that time, when he had spilt the blood of thousands, they had still his person in a foolish veneration. Milton. Answer to Eikon Basilike, § 9. The minute ended that began the race, or defended. See UNSHielded. For this it practices to dissipate Daniel. Musophilwa UN-SHIP, v. To remove from, bear or carry out of, a ship, (qv) or vessel. Than the kynge of Cyper passed the see, and arryued at Douer, and there taried two dayes and refresshed bym tyll all hys cariage was vnshypped. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 218. But when wee would haue entred into an harbour, the land being very high on euery side, there came such flawes of winde and terrible whirlewinds, that we were not able to beare in, but by violence were constrained to take the sea agayne, our pinnesse being unshipt. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. I. p. 236, They anchoring there at first but to refresh their fleet, Yet saw those savage men so rudely them to greet, Unshipt their warlike youth, advancing to the shore. Drayton. Poly-olbios, &, L The people in the boats made several attempts to lay hold of him; but he, as often, dived under the boat, and at last having unshipped the rudder, which rendered her ungovernable, by this means he got clear off. Cooke. Second Voyage, b. ii. a. 2. Not made to tremble UN - SHIVERED. quake or quiver. For now our eares beene of more brittle mold, Than those dull earthen eares that were of old : Sith theirs, like anvilles, bore the hammer's head, Our glasse can never touch unshivered. p. Hall, b. v. Sat. 3 |