UN-TENDED. Not observed, watched,

needed, guarded, taken care of.

Let Asia's woods,

Untended, yield the vegetable fleece; And let the little insect-artist form,

A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.—B. Jonson. Poetaster, Ded.

Id. Winter.

Cassibulan thine vnkle

(Famous in Caesar'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 untender'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
Pierce euerie sense about thee.

UN-TERRIFIED.

or dismayed.

Shakespeare. Lear, Act i. sc. 4.
Not frightened, afraid,

Yet stands he stiff, undash'd; unterrify'd;
His mind the same, although his fortune worse:
Virtue in greatest dangers b'ing best shown.

Daniel. Civil Wars, b. vi.

Chaucer. Troil. & Cres. b. v.

Unthank come on his hand that bond him so,
And he that better shuld have knit the rein.

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 vnthankefully doth attribute to his owne fortune or policie. Sir T. Elyot. The Governor, 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 forth the mercies of God, who wylleth all men to be saued. Fisher. On Prayer, To the Reader.

If all the world

Should in a pet of temp'rance feed on pulse,
Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze,
Th' all-giver would be unthank'd, would be unprais'd.
Milton. Comus.

Holinshed. Chron. of England. Hen. VII. an. 1173. But almightie God did not long suffer this their enthankefulnesse without iust 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-THA WED. Not softened, relaxed, dissolved, (as ice by warmth.)

So that the pride of vaine glorie
Euer afterwarde out of memorie
He let passe, and thus is shewed,
What is to ben of pride vnthewed,
Ageine the high gods lawe :

To whome no man maie be felawe.-Gower. Con. A. b. i.
Go work, hunt, exercise! (he thus began)
Then scorn a homely dinner, if you can.
(Your wine lock'd up, your butler stroll'd abroad,
Or fish deny'd the river yet unthaw'd ;)

If then plain bread and milk will do the feat,
The pleasure lies in you, and not the meat.

Pope. Imitation of Horace, b. ii. Sat, 2.
The flood of life,

Loos'd at its source by tepefying strains,
Flows like some frozen silver stream unthaw'd,
At a warm zephyr of the genial spring.

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.-not felt, UNTHOUGHT. perceived, conceived, or UNTHOUGHTFULNESS. imagined; not received into the mind or understanding; not retained in the mind; not considered or meditated.

They as vnthoughtfull, 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
You (gracious madam) to vnthinke your speaking;
And to say so no more.

Shakespeare. Hen. VIII. Act ii. sc. 4.
Dare I prophane, so irreligious be,
To 'greet, or grieve her soft euthanasee!
So sweetly taken to the court of blisse,
As spirits had stolne her spirit in a kisse,
From off her pillow and deluded bed;
And left her lovely body unthought dead !

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;
And in the cunning. Truth itself's a lie:
Unthought-of frailties cheat us in the wise;
The fool lies hid in inconsistencies.

Pope. Moral Essays, Ep. 1. 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.

Millon. Comus.

UN-THREATEN, v. See UNREPROACH.

UN-THRIFT. UNTHRIFTY. UNTHRIFTILY. UNTHRIFTINESS. UNTHRIFTFULLY. UNTHRIFTIHEAD. UNTHRIVE. UNTHRIVING. pering or succeeding.

Unthrift, one who gathers not, hoards not, keeps not; who is not frugal, provident, cautious, careful who is lavish, wasteful, profuse, prodigal Unthriving, not board. ing or acquiring; not pros

:

Creseide with a sigh, right in this wise
Answerde, "I wis, my dere herte trew,
We may well steale away, as ye devise,
And finden such vnthrifty waies new."

Chaucer. Troil. & Cres. b. ir. God forfid that nise enthrifty thought shoulde comme in thy mynde thy wittes to trouble, sithen euery thynge in commynge is contingent.-Id. Testament of Loue, b. i.

"For louers ben the folke that ben on liue, That most disease haue, and most rathrine, 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 hym of an vnthrifle to be new borne an honest and a well disposed manne.-Udal. Luke, c. 15.

Beysdes theis, a great multitude of enthrifts and out throtes were flocked thither out of all Gallia.

Goldinge. Cæsar, fol. 76. Some in Parys sayde: it is pytle these enthrifles be vahanged or drowned, for tellyng of suche lies.

Berners. Froissart. Cronycie, voi. i. e. 218. Except suche rybaudes, and enthriftye people, as desyred nothynge but yuell and noyse, all the other (gladlye they sayde) wolde haue rest and peace, what soeuer came theraf.

Id. Ib. vol. i. c. 386.

Therefore consider in thy mind, not what hee hath said, that hath liked thee, but what hee hath spoken, that hath disliked thee: as if he had either done or said ought piuishly, foolishly, foul, horrible, abbominable, lewdly, thriftelie, madly, vngratiously: and by that that cometh forth, make coniecture, what lieth hid secretly, & closelie within.-Vives. Instruction of a Christian Women, c. 14.

Admytte thy wyfe be of croked condicions, or a nyee wanton, or geuen to other enthriftynesse: destroye her not 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 sleeve to call you to his grace at last, venture hardily by mine ex ample upon naughty unthriftiness, in trust of his goodness; and besides the shame, I dare lay ten to one ye shall perish in the adventure-Wyat, Let. 1. To his Sen.

An other no lesse is, that such plentie of vittayle, as was aboundauntly in euery quarter. for the reliefe of vs ali, is nowe all wastfully and enthriftfully spent, in mainteyning 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 unthrists.
Beaum. & Fletch. Knight of the Burning Peille, Act IV.
In somuch that manie of them [yeomen] are able and doo
buie the lands of vnthriftie gentlemen.

Holinshed. Description of England, b. ii, c. 6.
Full many mischiefes follow cruell Wrath;
Abhorred bloodshed, and tumultuous strife,
Vnmanly murder, and enthrifty seath,
Bitter despight, with rancours rustic knife,
And fretting griefe the enemy of life.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, d. i. c. 4.
That are your words of credit. Keepe your names
For your next meale; this you are sure of. Why
Will you part with them, here unthriftily!

B. Jonson, Epig. 7.
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 enthriftiked.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iiì. e. 12. God's familie admitteth of no dwarfes (which are unfàrising and stand at a stay) but men of measures.

Bp. Hall. Meditations & Vowes, Cent. I. No. 44. There are very many ways for a good man to become unblessed, and unthriving in his prayers, and he cannot be secure unless he be in the state of grace, and his spirit he quiet, and his mind be attentive, and his society be lawful, and his desires be earnest and passionate, and his devotiona persevering.-Bp. Taylor, vol. i. Ser. 6.

Ber. Unthrifts will starve if we before-hand give,
I'll see you shall have just enough to live.

Dryden. Tyrannick Love, Act ii, & L
Thus, as some fawning usurer does feed
With present sums th' unwary unihrift's reed.
Id. 1 Pt. Conquest of Granado, AMI

He therefore that is such a niggard of his time, that he grudreth 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 thereof.-Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 7.

It is therefore the greatest want of policy, the worst illhusbandry and unthriftiness that can be, to be sparing this way bounty to the poor), he that useth it cannot be thriving, he must spend upon the main stock, and may be sure to get nothing considerable-id. Ib. Ser. 31.

UN-THRONE, v. See DETHRONE. To remove from a throne or seat; seat of eminence, of royalty.

He takes upon him by Papal sentence to unthrone Chilpericus the rightful king of France, and gives the kingdom to Pepin for no other cause, but that he seem'd to him the more active man-Milton. Reformation in England, b. ii. Either to disinthrone the king of Heav'n We warr, if warr be best, or to regain Our own right lost him to unthrone we then May hope when everlasting fate shall yield To fickle chance, and chaos judge the strife.

Id. Paradise Lost, b. ii.

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 unteide.

And secheth ouer all my veynes.-Id. Ib. b. iv.

At euery which alarme, the two lordes generall shewed themselues maruelous ready & forward, insomuch that at the very first alarme, skant wel furnished with any more defence then their shirts, hose, and dublets, & those too altogether in a maner vntied, they were abroad in the streetes themselues, to see the vttermost of it.

Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p.
The pleasure I take in her
Thus I blow off; the care I took to love her,
Like this point, I unfie, and thus I loose it;
The husband I am to her, thus I sever.

613.

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 Of all our actions, and his knot's, too, fast.

1 Ten. A true love knot will hardly be untied. B. Jonson. Love's Welcome. Nor must the fable, that would hope the fate Once seene, to be againe call'd for and plaid, Have more or lesse then just five acts: nor laid, To have a god come in; except a knot Worth his untying happen there.

Id. Horace. Art of Poetrie.

Since the self-denial here recommended can only respect things in themselves lawful and not unreasonable, and in favor of such our bare inclinations have been allowed to be taken for arguments and directions, it looks as if this advise to deny one's self or inclinations inferred a contradiction. But this knot will be quickly untied. Wollaston. Religion of Nature, §9. UN-TIL. See TILL. To while. Used also as equivalent to Unto.

Dauid at that while was with Edward the kyng,
Git auanced he that file untille a faire thing.
R. Brunne, p. 237.
He hadde ymade ful many a marriage
Of yonge wimmen, at his owen cost.
Until his ordre he was a noble post.

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 only 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 broke their fore-stay, and the gammon of the bowsprit, and were in no small danger of having all their masts come by the board; so that we were obliged to bear away until they 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. UN-TILLED. Not raised, turned, cultiUNTILLABLE. vated.

From the seventh day of December till the ninetenth day of March (as Walsingham and other old writers doo report), the ground laie untild, to the great hinderance and losse of all growing things on the earth.

Holinshed. Chronycles of England. Edw. III. an. 1364. Hee must beware that betweene two furrowes, he leave no naked balkes raw and untilled.

Holland. Plinie, b. xviii. c. 19. Many of them [the plantations], especially the largest, are wholly untill'd, yet very good fat land, full of large trees. Dampier. Voyages, an. 1685.

Then slew they to Apollo, on the shore Of the untillable and barren deep, Whole hecatombs of bulls and goats, whose steam Slowly in smoky volumes climb'd the skies. Cowper. Homer. Iliad, b. 1. UN-TIMBERED. Not built or constructed (of strong materials).

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
Tithing com him vntime, Sir Lowys dede he fond.

R. Brunne, p. 227. And also resonable houre for to ete by mesure, that is to say, a man shal not ete in untime, no sit the longer at the table, for he fasteth.-Chaucer. Persones Tale, v. 386.

Thou in dull corners dost thyselfe inclose,
Ne tastest princes pleasures, ne doost spred
Abroad thy fresh youthes fairest flowre, but lose
Both leafe and fruit, both too untimely shed,
As one in wilfull bale for euer buried.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. lii. c. 2.
See, see, the mourning fount, whose springs weep yet
Th' untimely fate of that too beauteous boy.

B. Jonson. Cynthia's Revels, Act i. so. 1.

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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 dis graceful, by dolorous deaths, to be set before a tribunal, tc give account of their universal neglect, and contemning of Christ's last testament, in so great an affair, as the whole government of his church.

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 o 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.

Mon. If I not press untimely on his leisure, You would much bind a stranger to your service, To give me means of audience from the emperor. Rowe. Tamerlane, Act ill.

A grape-stone in the throat, a hair, a bone of a fish has brought many to an untimely grave.-Knox. Antipolemus.

"By my faith, this bodes us no good!" said Blount; "it must be some perilous cause puts her grace in motion thus untimeously."-Scott. Kenilworth, c. 15.

UN-TINGED. Not stained, dyed, imbued.

In a darkened room it may appear what beams are un tinged 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.

Your inattention I cannot pardon. Pope has the same defect, and it is of all others the most mortal to conversa tion: neither is Bolingbroke untinged with it.

Swift to Gay, July 10, 1732. UN-TIRED. Not harassed or distressed, UNTIRABLE. Svexed or troubled, wearied of fatigued.

As in a picture limb'd unto the life,
Or carved by a curious workman's knife,
If twenty men at once should come to see
The great effects of untirde industry,
Each severally would thinke the pictures eye
Was fixt on him, and on no stander by..

Browne. Britannia's Pastorals, b. ii. s. 1,
Mer. A most incomparable man, breath'd as it were,
To an unlyreable and continuate goodnesse.
Shakespeare. Timon of Athens, Act i. sc. 4.
True indeed,

A son was born; but to prevent that crime,
The wretched infant of a guilty fate,
Bor'd through his untir'd feet, and bound with cords,
On a bleak mountain, naked was expos'd.

Dryden. Edipus, Act iil 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, untired with the business of the day, and untainted with ill images and impressions.-Atterbury, vol. iv. Ser. 9

UN-TITLED. Not having, being without, or deprived of a name-of honourable distinction, a 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.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 9

O natiō miserable!
With an entitled tyrant, bloody sceptred,
When shalt thou see thy wholsome dayes againe !
Since that the truest issue of thy throne
By his owne interdiction stands accurst,
And do's blaspheme his breed?

UN-TO.

Shakespeare. Macbeth, Act iv. sc. S.

On or in to.

Vnto the se side chaced thei Sir Lowys,
He durst not abide, no turne Thebald his vis [visage].
R. Brunne, p. 104.

& geldes vp alle the bondes of homage & feaute,
Saue the right that may falle of ancestres olde,
Unto ther heires alle to haf & to holde.-Id. p. 260.
"I graunt it you," quod she, and right anone
This formel eagle spake in this degree:
"Almighty quene, unto this year be done
I aske respite for to avisen mee.
And after that to have my choice all free."
Chaucer. Assems.y of Fowles,
12 P

Jesus began to speake onto 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 vnto whome muche is geuen, of him shal be much
required.-Id. Luke, c. 12.

This being therefore presupposed, from that knowne rela-
tion which God hath unto vs, as vnto children, and vnto 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.

To free your heels by any course,

Which if I should consent unto,

It is not in my pow'r to do.

Id. c. 1.

UN-TOILED, i.e. Untilled, (qv.)

That might b' unwholsome to your spurs ;

Those things which in their nature were not edible, (at
least, to an Israelite) were now both deare, and dainty. The
asse was (besides the untoothsomnesse) an impure creature.
Bp. Hall. Cont. Samariaes Famine Releeved.

But ah, beware!

For I intend thee mischief, and to dash
With both hands ev'ry grinder from thy gums,
As men untooth a pig pilf'ring the corn.

Cowper. Homer. Odyssey, b. xviii.
UN-TORMENTED. Not tortured or twisted;
not distressed or distracted.

Too much for chaos to permit my mass
A longer stay with essences unwrought,
Unfashion'd, untormented into man?

UN-TORN.
asunder.

Young. Complaint, Night 7.
Not rent, reaved, or forced

And the truth is, that as long as that small remainder of
land, belonging to the church shall continue yet untorn
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
The valiant Hector, with his golden shield
O'ershadow'd him, that uncorrupted still,
And still untorn, though dragg'd he might remain.
Cowper. Homer. Iliad, b. xxiv.
That may not be felt
by the sense of touch;
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 inter-
meddled with.

Ito eth to grow in rough and untoiled places.

Holland. Plinie, b. xxv. c. 5.

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
Bo: 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, untold, no liuing tongue can speake.

Spenser. Teares of the Muses.

Three nights I hous'd him, and within my cot
Three days detain'd him (for his ship he left
A fugitive, and came direct to me),
But half untold his story yet remains.

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 vntolerable vilanie),
ye shal not requite it with a blowe againe, but rather offer
the other cheke to bee stricken too.-Udal. Math. c. 5.

UN-TOUCHABLE.
UNTOUCHED.

Further Theophylacte saithe, the body of Christe is eaten ;
but the Godheade is not eaten bicause it is untoucheable,
and vncomprehensible vnto our 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. . 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,
Retir'd a step from Socus, and replied:
Ah hapless youth! thy destiny impends.

Not coming to, acceding to, yielding or com-
UN-TO'MBED. Removed from, taken out plying; not docile or tractable, or manageable;

What philosopher durst haue enterprysed 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 for-
bearance, 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 sorbitiuncule
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

The last of this diuision
Stant vntowarde 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;

nor gratiously vtter it, when imbraced; nor peaceably main-
Hooker. A Discourse of Justification, § 39.

taine it, when it is vttered.

UNTRA'CTABLE.
UNTRA CTABLENESS.
UNTRACTABILITY.

that cannot be managed, guided, or governed.

But if he be so untractable that he wyll be moued neyther
with shame, nor with feare of iudgemente, than bryng the
matter to the congregacion.-Udal. Mathew, c. 18.

And why is this way narrow but because it is untrackel
and untrodden ? if I may not rather say the way is untracks '
and found by few, because it is narrow and not easie f
tread in.-Bp. Hall. Soliloquies, Sol. 68.

-But I

Toild out my uncouth passage, fore'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 mean.
them most good.-Hales. Rem. Ser. on Luke, xviii. 1.

If the ways of God's universal providence be untraceable,
then most of all the workings of his grace are conducted it
a secret unperceivable way in this new birth.

Leighton. Com. on 1 Peter, c. I

Who can alone discover the wiles, and fathom the depth,
of Satan, and track him through all his windings and
(otherwise untraceable) labyrinths.
Boyle. Works, vol. ii. p. 261

So the eagle,
That bears the thunder of our grandsire Jove,
With joy beholds his hardy youthfull offspring
Forsake the nest, to try his tender pinions,
In the wide untract air.

Rowe. Ulysses, Act iii

Which great difference in men's intellectuals, whether it
rises from any defect in the organs of the body, particularly
adapted to thinking or in the dullness or atractablesess
of those faculties for want of use; or, as some think, in the
natural differences of men's souls themselves, or some, or
all of these together; it matters not here to examine.
Locke. Hum. Underst, b. iv. c. 20.

Nor wonder, if (advantag'd in my flight,
By taking wing from thy auspicious height)
Through untrac'd ways and airy paths I fly,
More boundless in my fancy than my eye.

Denham. Cooper's Hill
There are few people so untractable but may be kept in
temper by a wise management.-Waterland, vol. ix. Ser. 1.

This plan was accordingly put into execution; but tho
untractableness and prodigious strength of the buffaloes,
rendered it a tedious and difficult operation.

Cook. Third Voyage, b. vi. e. 10.

His [Condorcet] untractabilily to these leaders, and his
figure in the club of jacobins, which at that time they
wished to bring under, alone prevented that part of the
arrangement.-Burke. Thoughts on French Affairs, (1791.)

UN-TRADED. Not frequented or resorted
to (for purposes of merchandize or commerce;
not engaged in commerce.)

Our English that to steale the first blessing of an retraded
place, will perhaps secretly hasten thither, may bee behold-
ing to mee for this caueat, if they take notice thereof.

Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 652.

That he may deliuer vp vnto Messias at his comyng a
people not vtterlie entraded or vnentered in his discipline,
but somwhat prepaired already & instructed therunto with
the agnisyng & knowelageyng of theyr owne synfulnesse.
Udal. Lake, el.

By Mars his gauntlet, thanks!
Mock not, that I affect the untraded oath.
Shakespeare. Troil. & Cress. Act iv. sc. 5.
Men leave estates to their children in land, as not so
liable to casualties as money, in untrading and unskilful
hands.-Locke.

UN-TRAINED. Not drawn (in the way
they should go); not educated, exercised, or
practised, or experienced.

And he shewed him trewe tidynges, and unirewe, for he made him beleue howe all the countre of Wales wolde gladlye haue hym to be their lorde.

Berners. Froissart. Cronycie, vol. i. c. 332.

For, concerning signification [of this word Bishop], first It is clearly untrue that no other thing is thereby signified but only an oversight in respect of a particular church and congregation.-Hooker. Ecclesiasticall Politie, b. vii. § 11.

[The earle of Buckingham] tooke the sea, and returned into England, sore displeased with the duke of Britaine for his great untruth and dissimulation (as he tooke it) notwithstanding all excuses to cloake the matter by him alledged. Holinshed. Chron. of England, Rich. II. an. 1380.

Bust. It must be faced, you know there will be a yard of dissimulation

At least (city measure) and cut upon an untroth or two. Beaum. & Fletch. Maid in the Mill, Act iv. sc. 1.

That which they have been reproved for is, not because they did therein utter an untruth, but such a truth as was not sufficient to bear up the cause which they did thereby seek to maintain.-Hooker. Ecclesiasticall Politie, b. vili.

Flora commands, said she, those nymphs and knights,
Who liv'd in slothful ease, and loose delights:
Who never acts of honour durst pursue,
The men inglorious knights, the ladies all untrue.
Dryden. The Flower and the Leaf.

UN-TRUSS, v. UNTRU'SSER. UNTRU'SSING, n. UNTRU'SSED.

To remove or deprive of the truss or package; that which packs, binds, or bundles, or closes up.

Till at length he was slaine at Edessa a citie in Mesopotamia by one of his owne souldiers, as he was about to entrusse his points, &c.

Holinshed. Historie of England, b. iv. c. 22.

Bri. Well done, well done, give me my night-cap. So. Quick, quick, untruss me. Beaum. & Fletch. Elder Brother, Activ. sc. 4. Welcome, gentlemen: and how dost thou, thou grand scourge, or second untruss of the time.

B. Jonson. Every Man Out of his Humour, Act ii. sc. 1.

Such as on stages play, such as we see

The Dryads painted, whom wilde satyres loue,
Whose armes halfe naked; lockes vntrussed bee,
With buskins laced on their legs aboue,
And silken roabes tuckt short aboue their knee;
Such seem'd the Siluian daughters of this groue,
Saue that in stead of shafts and boughes of tree,
She bore a lute, a harpe of citterne sheene.

Fairefax. Godfrey of Bovlogne, b. xviii.

Neither shall you, at any time, ambitiously affecting the title of the untrussers or whippers of the age, suffer the itch of writing to over-run your performance in libel.

B. Jonson. Poetaster, Act v. sc. 1. Come, we'll go see how far forward our journeyman is toward the untrussing of him.—Id. Ib. Act iv. sc. 5.

lent;

Nor less admire

This tumult untumultuous; all on wing! In motion all! yet what profound repose! What fervid action, yet no noise! as aw'd To silence by the presence of their Lord.

UN-TUNE, v. UNTU'NEABLE. UNTU NEABLY.

Young. Complaint, Night 9. To remove or destroy an extended continuity of sound, of sounds in consent or con

cert, in harmony or concord; to disable from the production of such sounds; to relax the strings. Or be the shepheards which doe serue her laesie. That they list not their mery pipes apply, Or be their plpes vntunable and craesie, That they cannot her honour worthily?

Spenser. Colin Clout's come home againe. Pardon (bright excellence!) an untun'd string, That in thy ears thus keeps a murmuring; O! speak a lowly muse's pardon.

Crashaw. Upon the Duke of York's Death.

As one broken link dissolves the union of the whole chain, and one jarring untuned string spoils the whole musick, so is every sin that seizes upon a portion of our affections; if we love one, that one destroys the acceptation of all the rest.-Bp. Taylor, vol. i. Ser. 12.

He who sees not this argument how plainly it deserves to divorce any unlunable, or unatonable matrimony, sees little.-Milton. Tetrachordon.

An odious and unpleasant thing it is, to hear a hen keep a creaking or cackling, and a cow untowardly and untunably crying.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 586.

On other occasions we have drawn two words into one, which has likewise very much untuned our language, and clogged it with consonants, as "mayn't, can't, shan't, won't," and the like, for " may not, can not, shall not, will not, &c." Spectator, No. 135.

Their poetry then was made up almost entirely of monosyllables; which, when they came together in any cluster, are certainly the most harsh untuneable things in the world. Waller. Pref. to Poems, (ed. 1690.)

UN-TURNED. Not moved round; revolved, converted; "no stone unturned,” i.e. no obstacle left unmoved, no place unsearched, nothing untried.

Nevertheless in the mean time they left no stone unturned in Scotland, by secret contrivances to procure that the young king might be sent over into France, and Morton the regent laid aside. Camden. Hist. of Q. Elizabeth, an. 1574. Who will spare no pains, nor leave any stone unturned, for satisfying their lusts, and accomplishing their bad designs. Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 20.

After you shall have left no stone unturned to avoid it [war,] after you shall have sought peace by every mode of negotiation, the next desirable point will be, to take the greatest care that the execution of a bad business may be chiefly consigned to bad men.—Knox. Antipolemus.

Dutch. 'Tis a witch sure,

And by her means he came to untwist this riddle.
Beaum. & Fletch. Woman Pleas'd, Act v. K. 1.

The saints deceiv'd, shall be a sweet mistake,
Hand up thy soul for mine, and mine for thine.
Emp. No, I'll untwist you
I have occasion for your stay on earth.

Dryden. Don Sebastian, Act ill. se 1.
Ev'n light itself, which every thing displays,
Shone undiscover'd, till his brighter mind
Untwisted all the shining robe of day.

Thomson. To Sir Isaac Newton.

But still the solar light is not less real in the rainbow where it's rays become thus untwisted, and each differing thread distinctly seen in its effect, than while they remained united and incorporated with one another in the sun. Warburton. Divine Legation, b. ii. App. UN-VA'CILLATING. Not wavering, unsteady, or inconstant.

He was situated like one who walks upon ice, ready to give way around him. and whose only safety consists in moving onwards, by firm and unvacillating steps. Scott. Kenilworth, e. 17 UN-VALUABLE. See INVALUED. In the UNVALUED. word Invalued, the in is emphatical or augmentative; and so Unvalued (see UNRIP) used to denote

Much valued, highly prized, esteemed highly, or to be of great worth.

Mongst which, therein a síluer dish did ly

two golden apples of vnvalewd price:
For passing those which Hercvles came by,

or those which Atalanta did entice.-Spenser, son. 77.
Cla. Here I swear to thee,

By the unvalued love I bear this beauty,
(And kiss the book too) never to be recreant,
To honour ye, to truly love, and serve ye.

Beaum. & Fletch. Woman Pleas'd, Act ii. se. 6.
Chryses, the priest, came to the fleet to buy
For presents of unvalued price his daughter's liberty.
Chapman. Homer. Iliad, bi
Out of the east jewels of worth she brings.
Th' unvalued diamond of her sparkling eye.

Browne. Britannia's Pastorals, d. ii. s. 3

No home for her confesses she
But where she may a martyr be.
She'll to the Moors and trade with them,

For this unvalued diadem.-Crashaw. Hymn to St. Teresa.
Sir Moth. I will tell you, sister,

I cannot cry his caract up enough;

He is unvaluable.-B.Jonson. Magnetic Lady, Act i. sc.l. And from my father [I] received such a character of his learning, humility, and other virtues, that, like jewels of unvaluable price, they still cast such a lustre, as envy or the rust of time shall never darken.

King. Letter to Mr. Walion. True it is, that a good name is unvaluable; and all the South, vol. x. Ser. 9. That cannot be overpowered or

UN-TUTORED. Not educated, instructed, pelf in the world is not an equal ransom for it. disciplined.

We are two simple maids untutor'd, here, sir;
Two honest maids, is that a sin at court, sir?

Beaum. & Fletch. Loyal Subject, Act iv. sc. 3.

She had sixty-seven killed in the action, and eighty-four wounded, whilst the Centurion had only two killed, and a lieutenant and sixteen wounded, all of whom but one recovered: of so little consequence are the most destructive arms in untutored and unpractised hands.

Anson. Voyages, b. iii. c. 8. For living at first scattered abroad in independent tribes, their gross, untutored minds could rise no higher than to the sensible causes of good and evil. Warburton, vol. ix. Ser. 5. UN-TWINE, v. To roll back, to revolve; UNTWIST, V. any thing convolved, (any thing twained, or twined.) This knot [saith our author] might be vntwined with more facilitie thus. Holinshed. The Sundrie Inuasions of Ireland. When Age and Death call'd for the score, No surfeits were to reckon for; Death tore not (therefore) but sans strife Gently untwin'd his thread of life.

Crashaw. Ep. on Mr. Ashton.

For strait his arrows lose their golden heads, and shed their purple feathers, his silken braids untwine, and slip their knots.--Milton. Doct. & Dise. of Divorce, b. i. c. 6. Which made them eftsoones feare

the dayes of Pirrha should, Of creatures spoile the earth,

UN-VANQUISHABLE.
UNVANQUISHED.

overcome, conquered, subdued.
When time and occasion shall require, ye shal be through
my spirite stronge and vnuanquishable.—Udal. John, c. 17.

For so shall they be strong againste all the troublesome hurlyburlies of thys world, and shall persist unsangwished.

On this side, lo! the Getule town behold!
A people bold, unvanquished in war.

Surrey. Virgile. Eneis, b. tv. But now as concerning that the same esanguishekle army fighting vnder your ensignes and name, streightwe after it came to land, set fire on their ships; what mooted them so to doo?-Holinshed. Hist. of England, b. iv. c. 24.

Whilst the stout queen, by speedy flight, redeem'd
The safety of herself, and of her son:
And with her Somerset to Durham fled;
Her pow'rs suppress'd, her heart unranquished.
Daniel. Civil Wars, b. vil

their fatall threds entwist.-Spenser. Muse of Thestylis. that does not alter or change