UN-PURE. UNPU'RELY. UNPU'RENESS.

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King Henry to save his pensions, preferred these abbots

Not pure or clean; foul, and priors of dissolved monasteries to bishopricks, and other filthy. See IMPURE.

That no man should take meate wt vnpure bades, which they called vnwashed, as who should say, the hādes dyd defyle the meate or the mã: or as who should say, the licour of the water should washe away the filthinesse of the mynde.

Udal. Matthew, c. 15. The prestes haue swerued fro the lordes testament, & with poluted herte & handes to their offyce vnpurely. Bale. English Votaries, pt. ii. For what poynt of vnpurenes could that woman haue in bearing chylde, which without so much as once touchyng of any man, had conceiued by the onely power and vertue of God embracing her through the weorkyng of the Holy Ghost.-Udal. Luke, c. 2.

The prelate bishops in their printed orders hung up in churches, have proclaim'd the best of creatures, mankind, so unpurify'd and contagious, that for him to lay his hat or his garment upon the chancel-table, they have defin'd it no less heinous, in express words, than to prophane the table of the Lord.-Milton. Church Government, b. ii.

This active watchman of the Church militant will let nothing escape him, that he finds in my service; nor leave any thing unpurified that has once passed through my hands. Warburton. Divine Legation, b. vi. Not cleansed or cleared;

UN-PURGED.

polluted.

Tydynges came to Meroneus of the cōmynge of his fader wt so great araye, and he as then [was] vnpurueyed of strength of knyghtys to resiste his fader.

Fabyan. Chronycle, p. 88. Mean-while, the lower world, which nothing knew Of all that chaunced heere, was darkned quite; And eke the heauens, and all the heauenly crew Of happy wights, now vnpurvaid of light, Were much afraid, and wondred at that sight. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vi. c. 6.

UN-PU/TRIFIED. Not become rotten; not rotten, corrupted.

The first means of prohibiting or checking putrefaction, is cold for so we see that meat and drink will last longer, unpurified, or unsoured, in winter, than in summer. Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 341.

I have known an embryo, wherein the parts have been perfectly delineated and distinguishable, preserved unputrified for several years.-Boyle. Works, vol. ii. p. 74. UN-QU'AILED. (Un, aug.) Quelled, or

killed.

So griefe, (that never healthy, ever sicke,
That froward scholler to arithmeticke,

Who doth devision and subtraction flie,

And chiefly learnes to adde and multiply)
In longest journeys hath the strongest strength,
And is at hand, supprest, unquail'd at length.

Browne. Britannia's Pastorals, b. i. s. 4.

UN-QUALIFY, v. To remove, to strip off, or divest, to deprive of, qualifications, of certain qualities fitting, enabling, or entitling.

It [sin] discomposes and disorders, and unqualifies a man for any good duty, either to God or man.

Hale Cont. The Folly & Mischief of Sin.

good places in the church, however otherwise unqualified sometimes. Strype. Eccles. Mem. Edw. VI. an. 1553.

Hatred and revenge, rancour and malice, eat out the very vitals of religion, estrange us mightily from God and goodness, unqualify us for the offices of devotion and piety and peaceful society of heaven.-Waterland, vol. ix. Ser. 1.

And what could they hope for by attempting to deceive?
They must each of them know themselves to be every way
unqualified for conducting a fraud of this nature.
Secker, vol. iii. Ser. 18.
Destitute or deprived of

UN-QUALITIED.
See UNQUALIFY.
qualities.
Irus. Go to him madam, speake to him,
Heere's vnqualited with very shame.

Shakespeare. Anthony & Cleopatra, Act iii. sc. 9. UN-QUA'RRELABLE. That cannot be contended or contested, disputed or disagreed with.

There arise unto examination no such satisfactory and unquarrelable reasons, as may confirm the causes generally received.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. vi. c. 10. UN-QUEEN, v. rank of queen.

To strip off, to divest of, the

Embalme me, Then lay me forth (although vnqueen'd) yet like A queene, and daughter to a king interre me. Shakespeare. Hen. VIII. Act iv. sc. 2. UN-QUE'LLED. Not subdued or subjected. She gives the hunter horse, unquell'd by toil, Ardent, to rush into the rapid chase.-Thomson. Liberty. So boasted he; but Diomede unquell'd By that keen shaft, retreated, till arriv'd In front of his own chariot, there he stood.

UN-QUENCHABLE. UNQUE NCHABLY. UNQUE NCHABLENESS. UNQUENCHED. (Somner.)

Couper. Homer. Iliad, b. v.

That cannot be extinguished.

The pope, saith he, beinge diseased with a spiritual dropsie, that is to saie, with an vnquencheable thirst of monie, shooke out al the priestes purses, & spoiled the abbeies of all their treasures.

Jewell. A Replie vnto M. Hardinge, p. 735.

He was giuen to such vnquenchable couetousnesse, that nothing might suffice him.

Holinshed. Historie of Scotland. Mogall. [Some] which employ their labour and travail about the public administration of justice, follow it only as a trade, with unquenchable and unconcionable thirst of gain. Hooker. Ecclesiasticall Politie, b. v. § 1.

Our fire hath neede to be fed continually with wood and fewell, or else it goeth out, that burneth eternally without and is unquenchable; for that the breath of the Lord's own mouth doth blowe and nourish it.

Hakewill. Apologie, b. iv. s. 4. I was amazed to see the unquenchableness of this fire. Id. Ib.

Her husband Vulcan whylome for her sake,
When first he loued her with heart entire,
His precious ornament they say did make,
And wrought in Lemnos with unquenched fire.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 5.
Let 'em be seas, and I will drink 'em off,
And yet have unquencht fire left in my breast.

Beaum. & Fletch. King and No King, Act iv. Yet, for you have been So near me, as to bear the name of wife, My unquencht charity shall tell you this much, (Though you deserve it well) you shall not beg, What I ordain'd your joynture, honestly You shall have setled on you.

Id. The Woman's Prize, Act iv. sc. 4. If any spark from heav'n remain unquenched Within her breast, my breath perhaps may wake it. Rowe. Fair Penitent, Act ii. And fire unquench'd, unquenchable, Around, within, thy heart shall dwell.

Byron. The Giaour. In all save form alone, how changed! and who That marks the fire still sparkling in each eye, Who but would deem their bosoms burn'd anew With thy unquenched beam, lost liberty!

Id. Childe Harold, c. 2. s. 75.

Lo, warrior! now, the Cross of Red,
Points to the grave of the mighty dead;
Within it burns a wonderous light,
To chace the spirits that love the night:
That lamp shall burn unquenchably
Until the eternal doom shall be.

Lists not to eat; still muses; sleeps unsound,
His senses droop, his steady eye unquick;
And much he ails, and yet he is not sick.

Daniel. Civil Wars, b. iii.

So every fœtus bears a secret hoard,
With sleeping, unexpanded issue stor'd;
Which numerous, but unquicken'd progeny,
Clasp'd and inwrapt within each other lie.

UN-QUIET, v. UNQUIET, adj. UNQUIETLY. UNQUIETNESS. UNQUIETUDE.

Blackmore. Creation, b. vi. We now more usually write Inquietude. See INQUIET, DISQUIET.

To deprive of quiet or repose, of ease, rest, peace,

or tranquillity; to disease, to discompose, to disturb.

But among sondry lettes and impedimentes that hitherto haue chaunced, there hathe none so muche enuyed me thys felicitie, as hathe this troublous and vnquiet world. Udal. Marke, Pref. of Erasinus. To whom Ceballinus with a bashed countenaunce (well declaringe the vnquietnes of his minde) reported al those thinges which he had heard of his brother, requiringe him that he would declare the same immediately vnto the king. Brende. Quintus Curtius, fol. 156.

Having weighed the matter, and deeply pondered the gravity thereof, wherewith they were greatly troubled and unquieted, resolued finally that the archbishop should reveal the same to the king's majesty.-Herbert. Hen. VIII.

But beeing now attacht with timely age,
And weary of this worlds vnquiet waies,
He tooke himselfe vnto this hermitage,

In which he liu'd alone, like carelesse bird in cage.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vi. c. 6.
For almost all the world their service bend
To Phoebus, and in vain my light I lend,
Gaz'd on unto my setting from my rise
Almost of none, but of unquiet eyes.

Beaum. & Fletch. Maid's Tragedy, Acti. It was a true word of wise Bion, in Laertius, who when he was asked what man lived most unquietly, answered, he that in a great estate affects to be prosperous.

Bp. Hall. Christian Moderation, b. i. §2. When it is forced to ask honestly and severely, then it wills so coldly, that God hates the prayer; and if it desires fervently, it sometimes turns that into passion, and that passion breaks into murmurs or unquietness.

Bp. Taylor, vol. i. Ser. 4.

True or false, solid or sandy, the mind must have some foundation to rest itself upon; and it no sooner entertains any proposition, but it presently hastens to some hypothesis to bottom it on; till then it is unquiet and unsettled.

Locke. Conduct of the Understanding, § 6. UN-RACKED. Not distracted, not drawn off, (sc.) the pure from the foul or lees.

And take another vessel of new beer, and rack the one

vessel from the lees, and poure the lees of the racked vessel into the unracked vessel, and see the effect. Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 306. UN-RAISED. Not placed or set up; not reared, lifted, elevated, exalted.

The knightes of Englande offred themselfe, and said, how they were in good mynde so to do, so yt by their neglygece the siege shulde nat be enreysed.

Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 338.
But pardon, gentles all:

The flat unraysed spirits, that hath dar'd,
On this vnworthy scaffold, to bring forth
So great an obiect.-Shakespeare. Hen. V. Prol.

UN-RA KED. Not drawn together, gathered or collected.

But he who is Lord of all things, hath so ordain'd: trust him then; he doubtless will command the people to make good his promises of maintenance more honourably unask'd, warat'd for -Millon. On the Removal of Hirelings.

Where fires thou find'st enrak'd, and hearths vnswept, There pinch the maids as blew as bill-berry.

Shakespeare. Merry Wives of Windsor, Act v. sc. 5. UN-RA'NSACKED. Not searched, plundered or pillaged.

For I will for none hast leue any corner of the matter rasaked as farre as we can any doubte finde therin. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 187.

Beaum. & Fletch. Humorous Lieutenant, Act ii. sc. 4.

Mark me--I come ambassadress from Jove.
The gods, he saith, resent it, but himself
More deeply than the rest, that thou retain'st
Amid thy fleet, through fury of revenge
Unransom'd Hector-Cowper. Homer. Iliad, b. xxiv.
UN-RAPTURED. Not borne or carried
away; transported, entranced.

What heart of stone but glows at thoughts like these!
Such contemplations mount us; and should mount
The mind still higher: nor ever glance on man
Unraptured, uninflamed.-Young. Complaint, Night 4.

UN-RAVEL, v. To ravel and to unravel, have by usage been greatly confused in their application, To ravel is to tear (reave) or pull asunder, (se.) any thing involved or complicate; and thus,-to unfold, to disclose. And to unravel is

1. To involve or complicate; to disorder. But to ravel is also,-to tear or pull asunder, (sc.) any thing whole or entire, into shreds, into ragged particles; and hence,-to pull or put into disorder or confusion; to confuse, to perplex, to entangle. And to unravel,——

2. To remove the confusion or perplexity; to disentangle, to place in order; to make clear or plain, to evolve.

In each case un may be neg.; but see To UNREAVE, and To UNRIP.

A religion that would change the face of things, and would 280 pierce into the secrets of the soul, and unravel all the intrigues of hearts, and reform all evil manners, and break vile habits into gentleness and counsel.

Bp. Taylor. Rule of Conscience, b. i. c. 4.

If they shall retire to folly, and unravel all their holy vows, and commit those evils from which they formerly run as from a fire or inundation, their case hath in it so many evils. that they have great reason to fear the anger of God, and concerning the final issue of their souls.-Id. vol. ii. Ser. 8.

The catastrophe, the Grecians call'd do the French le denouement, and we the discovery or unravelling of the piot-Dryden. Essay on Dram. Poesie.

We are fallen into so profane, and sceptical an age, which takes a pleasure and a pride in unravelling almost all the received principles both of religion and reason. Tillotson, vol. i. Ser. 1.

The precept of Aristotle and Horace, that the unravelling of the plot should not proceed from a miracle, or the appearance of a God, has place only in Dramatic poetry not in the Epic.-Pope. Homer. Odyssey, View of the Epic Poem, s. 7.

depended on the reality of the clew: which, too, though A man might have seen, that the justness of unravelling dignified by the name of clew, is indeed no other than a number of odd ends, that wanted to be made consistent,

rather than to be unravelled.

Warburton. Divine Legation, b. iii. § 6. That great chain of causes, which linking one to another even to the throne of God himself, can never be unravelled by any industry of ours. Burke. On the Sublime and Beautiful, pt. iv. § 1. Vain thought! that hour of ne'er unravell'd gloom Came not again, or Lara could assume A seeming of forgetfulness. Byron. Lara, c. 1. UN-RA'ZORED. Not smoothened, scraped or shaped.

Com. Were they of manly prime, or youthful bloom? Lad. As smooth as Hebe's their unrazor'd lips. Milton. Comus.

UN-REACHED. Not touched, attained, or arrived at.

Labour with unequal force to climb

That lofty hill, unreach'd by former time.-Dryden. Where are the charms and virtues which we dare Conceive in boyhood and pursue as men, The unreach'd paradise of our despair, Which o'er-informs the pencil and the pen, And overpowers the page where it would bloom again? Byron. Childe Harold, c. 4. UN-READ. Not read or learned, not taught, not knowing, or acquainted with; not spoken from book, not perused in book.

Că I both gather vp hys bookes & go hyde theim, & also make the that haue red the goe vnredde the againe, or forget what they haue redde?

Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1025.

Agam. The finenesse of which mettall is not found
In fortunes loue: for then, the bold and coward,
The wise and foole, the artist and un-read,
The hard and soft, seeme all affin'd, and kin.

Shakespeare. Troyl. & Cress. Act i. sc. 3.

If to prevent sects and schisms, who is so unread or uncatechis'd in story, that hath not heard of many sects refusing books as a hindrance, and preserving their doctrine unmix'd for many ages, only by unwritten traditions? Millon. Of Unlicensed Printing.

Disdain of fathers, which, the daunce began,
And last, uncertain who's the narrowe span,
The clown unread, and half-read gentleman.

Dryden. The Hind and the Panther.

Not being solely unread in the authors, who had seen the most of those constitutions, and who best understood them, I cannot help concurring with their opinion, that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms of government.

Burke. On the French Revolution, (1790.)
I saw

The humblest of all sepulchres, and gazed
With not the less of sorrow and of awe
On that neglected turf and quiet stone,
With name no clearer than the names unknown,
Which lay unread around it.-Byron. Churchill's Grave.

UN-READY. Not prepared or fit for use; UNREADINESS. for any purpose; not dressed, not prompt, quick, expedite.

Unready-is frequent in our old writers, as undressed.

The archebysshop of Yorke, constrayned of pure necessyte to defende that countre, gatheryd vnto hym an vnredy and dispurueyed hoost for the warre. Fabyan. Chronycle, an. 1318.

What vntowardnes, what flincheing, what pinching, what unredines.-Bp. Gardner. True Obedience. To the Reader.

Quisan. Sleep dwell upon your eyes, and fair dreams court ye.

Quisar. Come, where have you been wench? make me unready;

I slept but ill last night.

Beaum. & Fletch. Island Princess, Act iii. [Enter seuerall wayes, Bastard, Alanson, Reignier, halfe ready, and halfe vnready.]

Alan. How now my Lords? what all enreadie so?
Bast. Vnready? I am glad we scap'd so well.
Shakespeare. 1 Pt. Henry VI. Act ii. sc. 1.

Him I hold more in the way to perfection who forgoes an unfit, ungodly, and discordant wedloc, to live according to peace and love, and God's institution in a fitter choice, than he who debars himself the happy experience of all godly, which is peaceful conversation in his family, to live a contentious, and unchristian life not to be avoided, in temptations not to be liv'd in, only for the false keeping of a most unreal nullity, a marriage that hath no affinity with God's intention.-Milton. Tetrachordon.

In order to embellish the mistress, you should give a new education to the lover, and teach the men not to be any longer dazzled by false charms and unreal beauty.

Spectator, No. 53.

This done, adoring the unreal forms
And shadows of the dead, I vow'd to slay
In my own palace, should I safe return,
A heifer fairest of my num'rous herds.

Cowper. Homer. Odyssey, b. xi.

UN-RE'APED. Not cut; consequentially, not gathered, or collected.

Had she dealt

But with that seeming modesty she might,
And flung a little art upon her ardor,

But 'twas forgot, and I forgot to like her,

And glad I was deceiv'd. No my Zenocia,
My first love here begun, rests here unreapt yet,
And here for ever.

Beaum. & Fletch. Custom of the Country, Act iv.

For the Britons not doubting but that thir enemies on the morrow would be in that place which only they had left unreap'd of all thir harvest. had plac'd an ambush; and while they were disperst and busiest at thir labour, set upon them, kill'd som, and routed the rest.

Milton. History of England, b. ii.

UN-REASONABLE. UNREASONABLY. UNREASONABLENESS.

UNREASON, n.

UNREASON, U.

Not according, or agreeable to or consistent with (right) reason, or sound sense, or understand

ing; not judicious, or prudent; well regulated or moderated.

But thei ben as unresounable beestis kyndeli into taking and into deeth, blasfemynge in these thingis that thei knowen not, and schulen perische in her corrupcioun and resseyue the hire of unrightwisnesse.-Wiclif. 2 Pet. c. 2.

Why han ye wrought this werk unresonable?

Chaucer. Frankeleines Tale, v. 11,185.

Lo, than will and unreason bringeth a man from the blisse of grace, whiche thing of pure kinde, euery man ought to shonne and to eschew, and to the knot of wil and reason confirme.-Id. Test. of Loue, b. iii.

In thelementes and eke also Thei hadden a beleue tho,

And all that was unresonable.-Gower. Con. A. b. v. After this he resorteth againe to the enresonablenes of the lawes, & proueth theim enresonable, by the sentence of hys owne conceite.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1028.

I wolde gyue the realme of Fraunce so moche to do, that I wolde bringe theym that be unreasonable to reason. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. ii. c. 181. The kynges seruautys greued and pylled Englysshe men vnresonably-Fabyan. Chronycle, c. 224.

For considerations. I'le propose such, as shew the unreasonableness of our enmities, and disagreements upon the account of different opinions; which will prove that our affections ought to meet, though our judgements cannot. Glanvill, Ser. 2.

However a man may for a while please himself in such objections against his Creator, and seem to himself to unreason the equity of God's proceedings; yet there will be a time when the sinner shall stand clearly convinced of the righteousness of God's dealings in his final departure from him.-South, vol. xi. Ser. 10.

There are many cases, wherein we are by no means obliged to grant that to others, which we ourselves perhaps (were we in their circumstances and they in ours) might be willing enough, unreasonably willing, to obtain from them. Atterbury, vol. i. Ser. 9.

In that general territory itself, as in the old name of provinces, the citizens are interested from old prejudices and unreasoned habits, and not on account of the geometrick properties of its figure.

Burke. On the French Revolution, (1790.

Un (in Spenser) appears to be the A. S. On, aug. and Unreave, (i. e. en- or un-reave,) to mean,— To reave or rive, or tear into; tear in pieces. In Hall, (un.neg.)—untorn, unrent. Penelope for her Ulysses sake,

deuiz'd a web her wooers to deceaue:

in which the worke that shee all day did make,
the same at night she did againe unreave.

Spenser, Son. 23. Couldst 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 tight and unreaved?

UN-REBATED.

Bp. Hall. Balm of Gilead, § 9.

Not beaten back, (sc.) the edge; and, consequentially, not blunted. See REBATE.

C. Terentius a Lucan to doe honour unto his grand father who had made him his owne sonne by adoption, exhibited a shew for three daies togither of thirtie paire of such fencers fighting with unrebated swords.

Holland. Plinie, b. xxxv. c. 7.

One other of his own family was called Celer, the quick flie, because a few days after the death of his father, he shewed the people the cruell fight of fencers at unrebated swords, which they found wonderfull for the shortness of time.-North. Plutarch, p. 199.

UN-REBU'KABLE. Į UNREBUKED. reprimanded.

That cannot or may not be chided, reproved,

By the gift of eternall generation Christ hath receiued of the Father one and in number the selfe same substance, whiche the Father hath of himselfe unreceiued from any other. Hooker. Ecclesiasticali Politie, b. v. § 54.

UN-RE/CKONED. Not counted or computed; not counted, estimated, or valued.

And the receiv'd opinion of the thing,

For some unhallow'd string that vilely jarr'd,

Hath so unseason'd now the ears of men,

That he who doth touch the tenour of that vein,

Is held but vain; and his unreckon'd pen

The title but of levity doth gain.-Daniel. Musophilus.

Add that falshood

To a long bill that yet remains unreckon'd

Dryden. Don Sebastian, Act iii. sc. 1.

UN-RECLAIMED.

UNRECLAIMABLE.

UNRECLAIMABLY.

See IRRECLAIMABLE. Not called back or recalled (sc. from a wrong course); not restored, recovered, or reformed; not called or brought back (sc. to management or mansuetude); not tamed.

But breath his faults so quaintly,

That they may seeme the taints of liberty;
The flash and out-breake of a fiery minde,
A sauagenesse in vnreclaim'd bloud of generall assault.
Shakespeare. Hamlet, Act ii. sc. 1.

Look, thirdly, below you; and see the horror of that dreadful place of torment, which is the unavoidable portion of careless and unreclaimable sinners. Bp. Hall. Ser. 2 Pet. i. 10. Those therefore who do pertinaciously and unreclaimably maintain doctrines destructive to the foundation of Christian religion, must necessarily be avoided and suppressed. Id. Peace-Maker, §8. Yet Galatea, harder to be broke, Than bullocks, unreclaim'd to bear the yoke. And far more stubborn, than the knotted oak. Dryden. Ovid. Metam. b. xiii.

UN-RECLINING. Not bending or leaning against; not reposing or resting against, or upon.

Therefore the joyless station of this rock
Unsleeping, unreclining, shalt thou keep,
And many a groan, many a loud lament
Throw out in vain, nor move the rig'rous breast
Of Jove, relentless in his youthful pow'r.

Potter. Eschylus. Prometheus Chain'd.

UN-RECOMMENDED. Not given into the hands, committed to the care, attention, favour; not declared worthy of favour, trust.

Unknown by personal acquaintance, and unrecommended by the solicitation of friends or the interposition of power, he [Jortin] was presented by archbishop Herring to a valuable benefice in London.-Knox. Ess. No. 113.

UN-RE/COMPENSED. munerated or requited.

Not rewarded, re

Heaven will not see so true a love unrecompenc'd.
Beaum. & Fletch. The Wild Goose Chace, Act iv. sc. 3.

It stands not with the munificence of a bountifull God to bee indebted to his creature, we cannot give him ought unrecompensed.-Bp. Hall. Cont. Solomon's Choice, &c.

UN-RECONCILEABLE.
UNRECONCILEABLY.
UNRECONCILED.

See IRRECONCILEABLE. That cannot be

brought again to peace, concord or agreement; that cannot be made to agree, or be consonant to, or consistent with.

The whiche at the tyme of his fathers dethe, beynge, as aboue is sayd, vnrecousyled in the prouynce of Burgoyne, & herynge of the deth of his father, with ayd of the foresayd duke Phylyp shortly entryd ye realme of Fraunce.

Fabyan. Chronycle. Louis XI. an. 1.

Since therefore neither truth can ever yeeld, nor obstinacy will yeeld; let us serve cheerfully under the colours of our Heavenly leader, and both proclaime and maintaine an unreconcileable warre with these Romish heresies.

Bp. Hall. No Peace with Rome, § 21. Naturall parents, know not how to retaine an everlasting anger towards the fruit of their loynes: how much lesse shall the God of mercies, bee unreconcileably displeased with his owne; and suffer his wrath to burne like fire that cannot be quenched?

Id. Cont. Absalom's Returne & Conspiracie.

Madam, I'm that man; I'm even he that once did owe unreconcil'd hate to you, and all that bear the name of

women.-Beaum. & Fletch. Woman Hater, Act iii. sc. 2.

No coalition, which, under the specious name of independency, carries in its bosom the unreconcileable principles of the original discord of parties, ever was, or will be, an healing coalition.-Burke On a late State of the Nation. UN-RECORDED. Not kept or retained in mind or memory; not commemorated, repeated, rehearsed.

With prosperous wing full summ'd to tell of deeds
Above heroic, though in secret done,
And unrecorded left through many an age,
Worthy t' have not remain'd so long unsung
Milton. Paradise Regained, b. i.

In their baronial feuds and single fields,
What deeds of prowess unrecorded died!

Byron. Childe Harold, c. 3. UN-RECOVERABLE. See IRRECOVERABLE. That cannot be restored, or regained; obtained or procured again.

No common place will serve us when we go on God's message; the very losse of minutes may be unrecoverable. Bp. Hall. Cont. Jehu & Jehoram

If I be long sick, and unrecoverably, I shall be the fitter and willinger to die.-Id. Med. & Vowes, Cen. 2. § 48. UN RECOUNTED. Not told, related, repeated.

Marry this is yet but yong, and may be left
To some yeares vnrecounted.

Shakespeare. Hen. VIII. Act iii. sc. 2. UN-RECRUITABLE. Į That cannot be UNRECRUITED. grown again; recreated; added (to a number or quantity); in the army, enlisted to increase the number.

this single enemy (as yet unrecruited with additional Judicious persons conceive that, had the royalists pursued strength) they had finally worsted him.

Fuller. Worthies. Chesshire. They would not suffer their empty and unrecruitable colonels of twenty men in a company to quaff out, or convey into secret hoards, the wages of a delusive list, and a miserable remnant-Milton. Of Education.

Lo, hard behind his backe his foe was prest, With dreadfull weapon aymed at his head: That vnto death had doen him vnredrest, Had not the noble prince his ready stroke represt. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 8. UN-REDUCIBLENESS. See IRREDUCIBLE. That cannot be brought back, brought into.

A third property of matters belonging to Christianity, and which also renders them mysterious, is their strangeness and unreducibleness to the common methods and observations of nature.-South, vol. iii. Ser. 6.

UN-REFINED. Not c.eared, purified, orightened, polished or polite.

The sugar of this country is much better than that which we bring home from our plantations: for all the sugar that is made here is clay'd, which makes it whiter and finer than our Muscovada, as we call our unrefin'd sugar.

Dampier. Voyages, an. 1699.

reformation an impudence in sinning?

Yea, have not too many amongst us added to their unBp. Hall. Ser. Eccl. iii. 4. He that is a heretick in one article, hath no saving faith in the whole; and so does every vicious habit, or unreformed sin, destroy the excellency of the grace of charity. Bp. Taylor, vol. i. Ser. 12.

It is better to allow the evil, in order to correct it, than by endeavouring to forbid, what we cannot be able wholly to prevent, to leave it under an illegal, and therefore an unreformed, existence.-Burke. Let. to Henry Dundas UN-REFRESHED. Not recreated, reanimated, or revived.

But when Penelope, the palace stairs
Re-mounting, had her upper chamber reach'd,
There, unrefresh'd with either food or wine,
She laid her down, her noble son the theme

Of all her musings.-Cowper. Homer. Odyssey, b. iv. UN-REFUNDING. Not restoring, or repaying; not returning.

When horrour universal shall descend,
And Heaven's dark concave urn all human race,
On that enormous, unrefunding tomb,
How just this verse! this monumental sigh!

UN-REFUSING.

Young. Complaint, Night 7.
Not denying or rejecting.

Joyous, th' impatient husbandman perceives
Relenting Nature, and his lusty steers
Drives from their stalls, to where the well us'd plough,
Lies in the furrow, loosen'd from the frost.
There, unrefusing, to the harness'd yoke
They lend their shoulder, and begin their toil.
Thomson. Spring

A way then with those your unproving illustrations, and regardable testimonies, which you (as destitute of all antiquity) shut up the scene withall.

Bp. Hall. The Remonstrants' Defence, § 13.

The mother's dissenting does not annul the marriage of her sons that are of age; and it is so far from that, that their not complying with their mothers in this affair is only then a sin when it is done with unregarding circumstances, or hath not in it a great weight of reason.

Bp. Taylor. Kule of Conscience, b. iii. c. 5. You are so much the business of our souls, that while you are in sight, we can neither look nor think on any else. There are no eyes for other beauties: you only are present, and the rest of your sex are but the unregarded parts that til your triumph-Dryden. State of Innocence, Ep. Ded.

Yet in the unregenerate there might be some good, such as are good desires, knowledge of good and evil, single actions of virtue, beginnings and dispositions to grace, acknowledging of our Saviour Jesus Christ, some lightnings and flashes of the Holy Ghost, a knowing of the way of righteousness; but sanctifying, saving good does not dwell, that is, does not abide with them, and rule.

Bp. Taylor. Of Repentance, c. 8. § 2.

That state from which we are redeemed by Jesus Christ, and freed by the Spirit of his grace, is a state of carnality, of unregeneration, that is, of sin and death.

Id. Ib. c. 8. § 4. The sum is, we may overcome some sins, and turn from the grosser sorts of wickedness, and yet if endeavour not to subdue the rest, we are still in the condition of unregeneracy and death, and though we thus seek, we shall not enter.

Glanvill, Ser. 1.

All that he meant to prove against the Pelagians, by quoting John vi was only this: that infants must have Christ, must have part in Christ, in order to eternal life, in or by their natural, unregenerate state, as the Pelagians pretended.-Waterland. Works, vol. ix. p. 483.

Now, we deny not that the state of the unregenerate carnal man is indeed represented in scripture under the images of captivity and bondage, and his sinful lusts under the images of chains and fetters.-Bp. Horsley, vol. ii. Ser. 20.

It is the peculiar glory of Christianity that it affords its worthy professors the enjoyment of heavenly grace; a gift which no other system could ensure, and of which man in his corrupt and unregenerated state, could never participate. Knox, vol. vi. Ser. 3. UN-REGISTERED. Not recorded or en

rolled.

- Nay, you were a fragment

Of Gneius Pompeyes, besides what hotter houres
Varegistred in vulgar fame, you haue
Luxuriously pickt out.

Shakespeare. Anthony & Cleopatra, Act iii. sc. 11. UN-REGRETTED. Not wept for, bewailed, amented, grieved.

The happiness of mankind is concerned in the preservation of works such as theirs, while those of the frothy declaimer are daily dropping unregretted into the gulf of oblivion-Knor. Ess. No. 164.

UN-RE/INED. Not held in or retained; not checked or curbed; not guided or controlled. For whilst this wild, unreined multitude (Led with an unforeseeing, greedy mind,

allied.

Byron. Lara, c. 1. See IRRELATIVE. Not told or narrated; not pertinent; not connected or

UN-RELINGUISHABLY. So as not to be left, forsaken, resigned.

As if this single respect of male and female were sufficient against a thousand inconveniences and mischiefs, to clog a rational creature to his endless sorrow unrelinguishably, under the guileful superscription of his intended solace and comfort.-Milton. Doct. & Disc. of Divorce, b. ii. c. 9.

UN-RE'LISHING. Not retaining, not having a pleasing taste or savour.

They can form no idea of any thing agreeable to them in the other world; all things there are uneasie and unrelishing at the best; and the worst is not to be endured.

Glanvill, Ser. 6. Not struggling or

UN-RELUCTANT. striving against; not

UNRELUCTANTLY.

Fuller. Worthies. London.

They confined the precept of loving their brother to the descendants of their fraternal tribes; and neglected and despised the rest of the sons of Adam, who. because ritually unholy and profane, were deemed to be naturally unrelated to them.-Waburton, vol. ix. Ser. 5.

The events we are witnesses of, in the course of the longest life. appear to us very often original, unprepared, single, and unrelative, if I may use such an expression for want of a better in English.

Bolingbroke. On the Study of History, Let. 2. They saw the measures they took singly and unrelatively, or relatively alone to some immediate object.-Id. Ib.

I think I may as well now, as at any other time, speak to a certain matter of fact. not wholly unrelated to the question under your consideration.

UN-RELAXED.

Burke. On American Taxation.

Not slackened or loosened.

For never yet was wool or feather,
That could stand buff against all weather;
And unrelax'd, like this, resist
Both wind and rain, and snow and mist.

Congreve. Impossible Thing. UN-RELENTING. Not being or becoming lenient, mild, gentle; not softening or mollifying.

Wherewith the king betakes him to some peace;
Yet to a peace much like a sick man's sleep,
(Whose unrelenting pains do never cease,
But always watch upon his weakness keep.)

Daniel. Civil Wars, b. iv.
Methinks suspicion and distrust dwell here,
Starting with meagre forms thro' grated windows;
Death lurks within, and unrelenting punishment;
Without, grim danger. fear, and fiercest pow'r
Sit on the rude old towe's, and Gothic battlements.
Rowe. Lady Jane Gray, Act iii,
He [Oldham] has lashed the Jesuits with deserved and
unrelenting rigour; but though severe punishment is often
necessary, yet to see it inflicted with the wanton cruelty of
an assassin, is not agreeable.-Knox. Ess. No. 137.
UN-RELIEVED. Not raised, sustained,
UNRELIEVABLE. succoured, helped, aided;

not raised or lightened.

And if he found that friendship here were feign'd,
Yet at the worst, it better should him please,
Far out of sight to perish here unknown,
Than unreliev'd be pitied of his own.

Drayton. Legend of Thomas Cromwell.

The tenth, Achilles, by the queen's command,
Who bears Heav'n's awful sceptre in her hand,
A council summon'd: for the goddess griev'd
Her favour'd hoast shou'd perish unreliev'd.

Dryden. Homer. Iliad, b. i. Which manifests, that as no degree of distress is unrelievable by his power, so no extremity of it is inconsistent with his compassion, no not with his friendship. Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 258. For the fact is, that after the law hath done its utmost, that most interesting species of distress which should be Daniel. Civil Wars, b. vi. the especial object of discretionary bounty goes unrelieved. Bp. Horsley, vol. iii. Ser. 35. UN-RELIGIOUS. Not godly, holy, pious. See IRRELIGION.

Of an imagin'd good, that did delude,
Their ignorance, in their desires made blind)
Ransackt the city.

We shall not fear to have our wives distain'd,
Nor yet our daughters violated here
By an imperial lust, that b'ing unrein'd,
Will hardly be resisted any where.

Id. A Panegyrick to King James.

With like safetie guided down

Return me to my native element:
Least from this flying steed unrein'd (as once
Bellerophon, though from a lower clime)
Dismounted, on th' Aleian field I fall
Erroneous there to wander and forlorne.

Millon. Paradise Lost, b. vii.

So that none of vs ought to take grieuously to bee reuiled or railled at for the woorde of the ghospell, or to suffre affliccion and enill turnes at the handes of suche persones, as serue the myndes of unreligious bishops.-Udal. Luke, c. 22. And to leat vs know yt nothing is more vnreligiouse the Jewish religion, which consisteth in visible thinges. Id. John, c. 11.

ness.

So he, whom, unreluctant, all obey'd.

Cowper. Homer. Iliad, b. xiv. Nor is it claimed as a privilege, but submitted to as a burthen unreluctantly upon a motive of public spirit. Search. Light of Nature, vol. ii. pt. ii. c. 23. They now begin with a villa, as if it were as necessary as a warehouse; and end with bankruptcy as naturally, as unreluctantly, and as unblushingly, as if it had been the honourable object of their mercantile pursuit.

See IRREMEDIABLE. That cannot be healed

again, or recovered; that cannot be cured.

As they lay an unnecessary load upon their own shoulders, so they draw upon themselves the miseries of an unremediable disappointment.-Bp. Hall. Contentation, § 20.

'Tis not a matter of any kind of evil report, really to have suffered, to have been squeez'd to atomes by an unremediable evil, especially if it be for well-doing.

Hammond, vol. iv. Ser. 3.

Shall I vnto the heauenly powres it show?
Or vnto earthly men, that dwell below?
To heauens! ah! they alas the authors were,
And workers of my vnremedied wo.

Spenser. Colin Clout's come home againe.

Yet marriage the ordinance of our solace and contentment, the remedy of our loneliness, will not admit now either of charity or mercy, to come in and mediate, or pacefy the fierceness of this gentle ordinance, the unremedied loneliness of this remedy.

Milton. Doct. & Disc. of Divorce. To the Parlament. Waste will continue and disorder foul Unremedied, so long as she shall hold The suitors in suspense, for, day by day, Our emulation goads us to the strife.

Cowper. Homer. Odyssey, b. ii.

tained in memory; not recollected.

For in olde storyes or cronycles is nat founde that any suche kynge of that name reygned ouer the Syriens or Assiryens, nor yet that any suche storye that his xxx. doughters shulde slee theyr xxx. husbandes, as there is surmysed was put in execucion; whiche if any suche wonder had ben there wroughte, shuld nat haue ben vnremembred the wryters and auctours of that parties. Fabyan. Chronycle, c. 1.

Nor must the patience, the fortitude, the firm obedience of the nobles and people of Scotland, striving against manifold provocations; nor must their sincere and moderate proceeding hitherto be unremember'd, to the shameful conviction of all their detractors.

Milton. Of Reformation in England, b. ii. Whole droves of minds are, by the driving God, Compell'd to drink the deep Lethæan flood; In large forgetful draughts to steep the cares Of their past labours, and their irksom years. That, unrememb'ring of its former pain, The soul may suffer mortal flesh again.

Dryden. Virgil. Eneis, b. vi. There are some words which are negative in their original language, but seem positive to an Englishman, because the negation is unknown; as abyss, a place without a bottom; anodyne, an easing medicine; amnesty, an unremembrance, or general pardon, &c.-Watts. Logick, pt. i. c. 4.

So urg'd he Pallas of herself prepar'd,
And from the heights Olympian down she flew.
With unremitting speed Achilles still
Press'd Hector.

Cowper. Homer. Iliad, b. xxii.

They have no project which is to be pursu'd from day to day, the subject of unremitted anxiety and solicitude, that first rushes into the mind when they awake in the morning, and is last dismissed when they sleep at night.

Cook. First Voyage, b. 1. c. 10.

UN-REMO'RSELESS. Used by Cowley as more than equivalent to Remorseless; with the prefix un, augmenting the force of the termination less.

The Roman Tully's pleasing eloquence,
Which in the ears did lock up every sense
Of the rapt hearer; his mellifluous breath
Could not at all charm unremorseless death.

Cowley. Elegy on Mr. Richard Clarke.

UN-REMOVABLE. UNREMO VABLENESS. UNREMOVED.

See IRREMOVABLE. That cannot be moved back or away; that cannot be stirred; made to change place.

We must set our selves before him, who is ever unremoveable before us, with us, in us; acknowledging him with no lesse assurance of our faith, then we acknowledge the presence of our own bodies by the assurance of sense.

Bp. Hall. Cont. The Remedy of Prophanenesse, b. i. § 4. When he [Socrates] might easily have escaped and saved himself, by the means that his friends had prepared and made for him, he would neither be remov'd, nor yield unto their prayers, nor desist from his manner of merry and jesting speeches, though death were presented unto him, but held his reason firm and unremovable in the greatest peril that was.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 986.

When they were roling that other weighty stone (for such we probably conceive) to the mouth of the vault with much toyle and sweat, and breathlesnesse, they bragd of the surenesse of the place, and unremoveablenesse of that load. Bp. Hall. Cont. The Resurrection. But your noble heart

Prepar'd to act so difficult a part,
With unremoved constancy is still

The same it was.-Drayton. Elegy on the Lady J. S.

As yonder mill,

Though in his turning it obey the streame,
Yet by the head-strong torrent from his beame

Is unremov'd, and till the wheele be tore,

It dayly toyles; then rests, and works no more,

Browne. Britannia's Pastorals, b. i. s. 4.

This acquitted the Christians of Polytheism, and left the charge fixed and unremoveable upon the pagans.

Waterland. Works, vol. iii. p. 70.

Two alone,

Automedon and Alcimus the brave,

Attended his commands; he had himself
Supp'd newly, and the board stood unremov'd.

Cowper. Homer. Iliad, b. xxiv.

UN-REPA'ID. Not requited or recompensed.

Yet what cou'dst thou, Tormentor, hope to gain?
Thy loss continues, unrepaid by pain,
Inglorious comfort thou shalt poorly meet,
From his mean blood. But oh revenge is sweet.
Dryden. Juvenal, Sat. 13.
Corsair! 'tis but a blow!

Without it flight were idle-how evade
His sure pursuit? my wrongs too unrepaid,
My youth disgraced-the long, long wasted years,
One blow shall cancel with our future fears.

Byron. The Corsair, c. 3. UN-REPA'IRED. Not See IRREPARABLE. restored, recovered or amended; not compensated

for.

Whan the Frenche kynge wente out of that countrey it was unrepayred, and fewe folkes abode therin, for all was brent and beaten down. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 434. Paul's steeple was unto us 'Bove all your fire-works had at Ephesus, Or Alexandria; and though a divine Loss, remains yet as unrepair'd as mine.

B. Jonson. An Execration upon Vulcan.
See IRREPEALABLE.
That cannot be re-

UN-REPE'ALABLE. UNREPE'ALEd. called or revoked.

Wilt thou (quoth he) that art but a bottle of vicious and harden'd excrements, contend with the lawful and free-born members, whose certain number is set by ancient, and unrepeatable statute?-Milton. Of Reform. in England, b. ii.

For say a man did abolish laws, and yet withall leave behind unrepealed and uncondemned the doctrines and books of Parmenides, Socrates, Heraclitus, and Plato, we should be far for all that from devouring one another, or living a savage life.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 919.

If the people laying aside prejudice and impatience, will seriously and calmly now consider their own good, both religious and civil, their own liberty, and the only means therof, as shall be here laid down before them, and will elect their knights and burgesses, able men and according to the just and necessary qualifications (which, for aught I hear, remain yet in force unrepeal'd, as they formerly were decreed in parlament) men not addicted to a single person or house, the work is done.

Millon. Way to establish a Free Commonwealth. Such then will be insisted upon as new ways of expressing and exercising that love of God, which is the foundation of all [duties,] and which is unrepeatable, abiding for ever. Waterland. Works, vol. v. p. 513.

To whom thus beauteous Juno, sore displeas'd:
God of the silver bow! stand unrepeal'd
This word of thine. if in the gods' account
Achilles' worth and Hector's be the same.
Cowper. Homer. Iliad, b. xxiv.
Not said or told again.

UN-REPEATED.

sailed back or repassed in ship, (navi.)

How faine would they again

Returne to want and toyle! but fates restraine;
And the unrenavigable Stygian sound,
Whose nine times winding streams their mansions bound.
Sandys. Virgil. Æneis, b. vi.

UN-RENEWED. Not renovated or made new again; not refreshed or revived.

As the sun is the cause of night and darkness, not by any casual influence producing it, but only by withdrawing his light; the corruption of a man's heart, unrenewed by grace, is the cause of its own hardness: as, when you melt wax, remove but the fire, and the wax will harden itself. South, vol. ix. Ser. 2.

ech man aftir hise werkis.-Wiclif. Romayns, c. 2.

His own high court of justice; being more merciful than ours below, there is a little room yet left for the hope of his friends, if he have any; though the outward unrepentance of his death afford but small materials for the work of charity. Cowley. On the Government of Oliver Cromwell.

There is in unrepenting or habitual sinners an eternal have sinned.-Bp. Taylor. Of Repentance, c. 5. § 3. spring or principle of evil, and they were ready for ever to

If it [affliction] meet with a person under the guilt of some great unrepented sin, it brings him an errand of humiliation, repentance, amendment, and thankfulness. Hale. Cont. vol. i. Of Afflictions.

Call back your thoughts from each deluding passion,
And wing your parting soul for her last flight;
Call back your thoughts to all your former days,
To every unrepented act of evil;
And sadly deprecate the wrath divine.
Rowe. Royal Convert, Act v.
Short was her joy; for soon th' insulting maid
By Heav'n's decree in the cold grave was laid,
And as in unrepenting sin she dy'd,
Doom'd to the same bad place, is punish'd for her pride.
Dryden. Theodore & Honoria.

But from his visage little could we guess,
So unrepentant, dark, and passionless,
Save that when struggling nearer to his last,
Upon that page his eye was kindly cast.

UN-REPINED. UNREPI'NING, UNREPI'NINGLY.

Byron. Lara, c. 2. s. 19.

Not sorry, regretting, fretting.

How ever it might be envious to raise new taxations, yet to continue those he found unrepined at, had been out of the reach of exception. Bp. Hall. Cont. Nehemiah's Redressing, &c.

How much warm water doth it cost him ere he can recover his wonted state? what anxiety, what strife, what torture, what self-revenge, what ejaculations and complaints, what unrepining subjection to the rod?

Id. The Rem. of Prophanenesse, b. ii. § 11.

What a wound it is to my heart, you will easily believe: but is undisputable will must be done, and unrepiningly received by his own creatures, who is the Lord of all nature, and of all fortune.-Reliquia Wottonianæ, p. 322.

Yet silent still she pass'd and unrepining
Her streaming eyes bent ever on the earth,
Except when in some bitter pang of sorrow,
To Heaven she seem'd in fervent zeal to raise them,
And beg that mercy man denied her here.
Rowe. Jane Shore, Act v.

back, withheld, (sc. from punishment.) Thou unreprievable dunce! that thy formal bandstrings, thy ring, nor pomander cannot expiate for, dost thou tell me I should? Beaum. & Fletch. The Elder Brother, Act ii. sc. 1. Within me is a hell, and there the poyson Is, as a fiend, confin'd to tyrannize, On vnrepreeuable condemned blood.

Shakespeare. King John, Act v. sc. 7. Or for ever sunk Under yon boyling ocean, wrapt in chains There to converse with everlasting groans, Unrespited, unpitied, unrepreevd, Ages of hopeless end; this would be worse.

Millon. Paradise Lost, b. ii.

UN-REPROACHABLE. See IRREPROACHThat can

not be charged witn any fault or crime.

Let the same never trouble us, but contrariwise cheere up our hearts and make us glad in regard of our own liberty, the purenesse of our life and innocency unreproachable. Holland. Plutarch, p. 201.

Sir John Hotham, unreproached, 'uncursed by any impre cation of mine, pays his head.-King Charles.

And we must comfort ourselves, that the fault is not on our side; take care to continue still equally unreproachable. Secker, vol. iii. Ser. 9.

UN-REPRO VABLE. Į That cannot be reUNREPRO VEd. Sjected or disallowed; cannot be condemned, blamed, reprehended, reprimanded.

And in my selfe this covenaunt made I tho,
That right such as ye felten wele or wo,
As ferforth as it in my power lay,
Unreprovable unto my wifehood aye,
The same would I felen, life or death.

Chaucer. Legend of Cleopatra. The Germanes and the French men ded myghtely resyst this decre by the stronge authorytees of Christ and of Paule, and by the unreprouable examples of the apostles and other holy fathers in the prymatyue churche.

Bale. English Votaries, pt. ii. Those objections, which haue beene made by many seeming wise, and the impediments likely to arise, as they haue supposed, are best answered by the onreproued witnesse of those men's actions.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 684.

Being oft times called judicially to his answer, and to render an account of his government and administration in a free city, and governed by a popular state, he was also found innocent and unreproveable.

Holland. Plutarch, p. 771.

Drusus once gone, Germanicus' three sons
Would clog my way; whose guards have too much faith
To be corrupted; and their mother known
Of too, too unreproved a chastity
To be attempted, as light Livia was.

B. Jonson. Sejanus, Act ii. sc. 2.
The antique world, in his first flouring youth,
Found no defect in his Creator's grace;
But with glad thanks, and enreproued truth
The gifts of soueraigne bountie did embrace.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. e. 7.