Thus may euery man reken hymn selfe unsure of his owne father yf he beleue no man, or bycause all the prose therof standyth but vpon one woman, & that vpon her, which though she can tell best, yf it be wronge hath greatest cause to lie.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 124. The stode al christendom in doubt, & ensurety, whither Saint John's gospel wer holy scripture or not, & so forth of al the new testament.-Id. Ib. p. 319. For they will not suffer thee, nor none of thy progeny to live, to make any claim afterwards, or to be revenged: for that were their unsurety. Strype. Eccles. Mem. Hen. VIII. an. 1538. Tonstal. How long shall this like dying life endure, And know no end of her owne miserie? But waste and weare away in termes ensure, Twixt feare and hope depending doubtfully. Spenser, son. 25. The vanity of greatness he had try'd, And how unsurely stands the foot of pride. Daniel. Civil Wars, b. ii. It was indeed a very curious show; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on. Burke. On American Taxation. UN-SURGING. Not rising, not moving in waves. But as a ship, that in a quiet calm Floats up and down on the unsurging seas, By some rough gust, which some ill star doth raise, Even so was I.-Drayton. Legend of Matilda the Fair. UN-SURMOUNTABLE. ABLE. See INSURMOUNT That cannot be ascended, climbed or passed over; that cannot be overcome. They being now on a desolate coast, where scarcely any other provision could be got, except what should be saved out of the wreck, this was another unsurmountable source of discord. Anson. Voyages, b. ii. c. 3. We find (as Josephus well expresses it) that, in proportion to the neglect of the law, easy things became unsurmountable, and all their undertakings how just soever, ended in incurable calamities. Warburton. Divine Legation, b. iv. § 2. Yet that one beast which first Hath tasted, envies not, but brings with joy The good befall'n him, author unsuspect, Friendly to man, farr from deceit or guile. Milton. Paradise Lost, b. ix. Let them not envy others who think the same no less their duty by the general office of Christianity, to speak truth, as in all reason may be thought, more impartially and unsuspectedly without money. Id. On the Removal of Hirelings. And therefore he such deep advice apply'd, Daniel. Civil Wars, b. v. It became almost a shame to examine what the world believed so unsuspectingly. Bp. Taylor. Deus Justificatus, Ep. Ded. But unsuspicious magnanimity Shames such effects of fear and force to show; Busied in free and open actions, still Being great-for being good, hates to be ill. Daniel. Civil Wars, b. v. This is a true story, which happened in the reign of William III. to an unsuspected old patriot, who coming out at the back-door from having been closetted by the king, where he had received a large bag of guineas, the bursting of the bag discovered his business there. Pope. Moral Essays, Ep. 3. Note. From their unsuspicious manner of coming on board, and of receiving us at first on shore, I am of opinion, they are seldom disturbed by either foreign or domestic troubles. Cook. Second Voyage, b. ii. c. 3. UN-SUSPENDED. Not held or kept in a state of rest; not ceasing from action or motion. Not a long and tedious treatise, divided and subdivided, and requiring the unsuspended attention of a day to comprehend a part of it.-Knox. Ess. No. 1. Yet at the same time I have observed, that it is not agreeable to read 'a great collection of epigrams with an unsuspended attention.-Id. Ib. No. 60. Each flour of slender stalk, whose head though gay, Milton. Paradise Lost, b. ix. His [the slanderers] weapon is an envenomed arrow, full of deadly poison, which he shooteth suddenly, and feareth not; a weapon which by no force can be resisted, by no art UN-SURRENDERED. Not yielded, given declined, whose impression is altogether inevitable and up, delivered up. unsustainable.-Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 18. Their leader lost, the Volscians quit the field; And, unsustain'd, the chiefs of Turnus yield. Dryden. Virgil. Eneis, b. xi. Hale are their young, frem human frailties freed; Walk unsustain'd, and unassisted feed; They live at once; forsake the dam's warm side, Take the wide world, with Nature for their guide. Young. Paraphrase on Job. See UNSWATHE. Puppy has scarce unswaddled my legs yet. B. Jonson. Tale of a Tub, Act i. sc. 2. UN-SWATHE, v. To remove, to loosen, to revolve the bonds or fillets wound or folded round. UN-SWA'DDLED. UN-SWEAR, v. Į To unswear,—to annul the UNSWO'RN. force of, to revoke an oath. Not pledged to the observance of an oath; not bound by oath. For none of them că tel what was said to an other, & yet they be vnsworne also.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 133. Yet are there many that dare secretely detecte, and by whom the ordinary shal know who can tell more, and will also if they be called and sworen, and wyll not vncalled and rnsworen, tel no tale at all.-Id. 1b. p. 973. Turne you the key, and know his businesse of him; Shakespeare. Measure for Measure, Acti. sc. 5. He that swears a false oath with his lips, and unswears it with his heart, hath deceived one more than he thinks for. Bp. Taylor, vol. i. Ser. 12. Ma. Yes: unswear that oath again I'll tell you all. Beaum. & Fletch. Noble Gentleman, Act iv. I spake, and, undelaying, she complied. When, therefore, nought of all her solemn oath Cowper. Homer. Odyssey, b. x. UN-SWEAT, v. Į In Milton,-to remove, to UNSWEATING. dry-the moisture exuded or evaporated from the skin, the perspiration. In Dryden, not exuding or evaporating; not perspiring. The interim of unsweating themselves regularly, and convenient rest before meat, may both with profit and delight be taken up in recreating and composing their travail'd spirits with the solemn and divine harmonies of music heard or learn'd.-Milton. Of Education. Call for a fire, their winter cloaths they take: In frost and snow, if you complain of heat, Dryden. Juvenal, Sat. 3. UN-SWEET. Not pleasing or agreeable. For all his gods he tooke to borrow, Lidgate. Story of Thebes, pt. iii. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 7. UN-SWELL, v. turgid state; to subside. But tho began his herte alite vnswell. Chaucer. Troil. & Cres. b. v. UN-SWEPT. Not rubbed, wiped, brushed, or cleared away; not moved or passed over with a sweeping motion or action. Where fires thou find'st vnrak'd, and hearths vnswept, Shakespeare. Merry Wives of Windsor, Act v. sc. 3. Cowper. Homer. Iliad, b. xi. UN-SWILLED. Not swallowed (in large draughts); not drunk or gulped down. At last, and in good hour, we are come to his farewel which is to be a concluding taste to his jabberment in law, the flashiest and the fustiest that ever corrupted in such an unswill'd hogshead.-Millon. Doct. & Disc. of Divorce, Post. UN-SYLLOGISTICAL. Not according to the logical rules for the construction of syllogisms. To the first proposition of this unsyllogistical syllogism. I answer, that to say the true church is not always de facto universal, is so far from being an heresie, that it is a certain truth known to all those that know the world, and what religions possess far the greater part of it. Chillingworth. Religion of Protectants, c. 6. § 14. UN-SYSTEMA/TICK. Į Not placed toge ther, composed or constructed in a connected series of dependent UNSYSTEMATICA... or successive parts No man, who is not inflamed by vain-glory into enthu$t, can flatter himself that his single, unsupported, destory, unsystematick endeavours, are of powers to defeat the subtle designs and united cabals of ambitious citizens. Burke. On the present Discontents, (1770.) Thus, between the resistance of power, and the unsyslematical process of popularity, the undertaker and the undertaking are both exposed, and the poor reformer is hissed off the stage both by friends and foes. Id. On Economical Reform, UN-TACK, v. To remove that which tacks, takes or holds; to loosen, to dissolve. Sir, the little ado which methinks I find in untacking these pleasant sophisms, put me into the mood to tell you a tale e'er I proceed further, and Menenius Agrippa speed us. Milton. Reformation in England, b. ii. I: [faith] alone can untack our minds and affections from this world, rearing our souls from earth, and fixing them in heaven.-Barrow, vol. ii. Ser. 3. The light hath a quality of clearness, of purity: of clearness, for the use of manifestation of purity and untaintednew, in respect of any mixture of corruption. Bp. Hall. Ser. 1 John, i. 5. Your grace has not only a long time of youth in which to flourish, but you have likewise found the way, by an untainted preservation of your honour, to make that perishable good more lasting. Dryden, Indian Emperor, Epis. Ded. A school so untaintedly loyal, that I can truly and knowingly averr, that in the very worst of times, (in which it was my lot to be a member of it) we really were king's scholars, as well as called so.-South, vol. v. Ser. 1. It shall be my task, To drive the noisome swarms, which on the slain UN-TAKEN. Not seized, or captured, not apprehended. The Englysshmen were put to the chase, and dynerse Eurt and slayne, and specially sir Robert Dartoyes was sore hurte, and scapedde hardely intaken. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 93. Howbet yet I will goe about to finde a remedy to saue thee from taking, if thou be rntaken : & if thou bee taken, that thou maiest skape out againe. Vives. Instruction of a Christian Woman, b. i. c. 14. What lately was their public terrour, they Behold with glad eyes as a certain prey. Dispose already of th' untaken spoil. Waller. Battle of the Summer-Islands, c. 2. UN-TALKED. Not spoken; not prated or prattled. Spred thy close curtaine loue-performing night, UN-TALL. spirit. | UN-TAMEABLE. INTA MED. UNTA MEDNESS. That cannot be quieted per (whereas S. Cyril hath also shewed you, he taughie it But leauing that rnlaught til ye time of his maundy sup or rendered quiet, peace-hys faithfull disciples at the institucion of ye blessed sacraful, obedient or submis- ment) he laboureth as I say in these woordes here moste as can be deuysed, to tell them and make them belieue that they shall verely eate his fleshe. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1064. sive; that cannot be subdued or suppressed, or domesticated. As for the plowing with vres (which I suppose to be vnlikelie) because they are (in mine opinion) entameable and akes a thing commonlie vsed in the east countries: here is to place to speake of it, since we want these kind of beasts, ne ther is it my purpose to intreat at large of other things than are to be seene in England. Holinshed. Description of England, b. iii. c. 4. Such first was Bacchus, that with furious might All th' East, before entam'd, did ouerronne, And wrong repressed, and establisht right, Which lawlesse men had formerly fordonne. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 1. For this reason the philosopher judges young men unfit hearers of moral philosophy, because of the abounding and untamedness of their passions, granting, that if those were composed and ordered, they might be admitted. Leighton. Com. on 1 Peter, c. 2. There is a stubbornness and fretting of heart concerning our souls, that arises from pride and the untamedness of our nature; and yet some take a pleasure in it, touching the matter of comfort and assurance if it be withheld; or which they take more liberty in, if it be sanctification and victory over sin; and yet find little or no success.-Id. Ib. c. 5. He cannot be as a beast, or a mere sot, if he would; reason, reflecting on present evils, and boding others future, will afflict him; his own unsatiable desires, unavoidable fears, and untameable passions, will disquiet him. Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 3. He would have worn her out by slow degrees, Dryden. Theodore & Honoria. UN-TANGLE, v. To remove, to loosen that which ties, folds, involves, intricates, or perplexes; to remove or do away intricacy or perplexity. My care now Must be to untangle this division, Beaum. & Fletch. Fair Maid of the Inn, Act iii. Yet hold! if Leonora's innocent, she may untangle all. Vanburgh. False Friend, Act iii. UN-TA'STED. Not touched, (sc. with the tongue or palate;) not felt or perceived; (not enjoyed.) Now worne away, and with oft trauell broke The emptie name of wife.-May. Lucan. Pharsalia, b. ii. And could not, by all means might be devis'd, When, sudden, comes blind unrelenting Fate, Ne'er for his lip the purpling cup they fill, That goblet passes him untasted still. Byron. Corsair, c. 1. s. 2. charged to the payment of tax or contribution; UN-TAXED. Not rated or assessed; not not charged (sc. with fault or offence). Antoninus Pius was a prince excellently learned; and had the patient and subtle wit of a schoolman, insomuch as in common speech which leaves no virtue untaxed he was called Cymini sector, a carver or divider of cummin seed, which is one of the smallest of seeds. Bacon. Of Learning, b. i. To cause to be ignorant; to leave in ignorance, Not of lofty-courage or high without instruction, without knowledge. Who totheth on hem thei ben untall ; Tbei ben arayid all for pece.-Chaucer. Plowman's Tale. I wis though he be nyce, untaught and unwise, I woll nat for his foly leve myne emprise. Chaucer. Marchantes Second Tale. What congregation of Christendome in all records afforded you the necessary patterne of an unteaching pastor, or an unfeeding teacher?-Bp. Hall. Apol. against Brownists, §27. Their office also in a different manner, steers the same course; the one teaches what is good by precept, the other unteaches what is bad by punishment. Milton. Doctrine & Discipline of Divorce, b. ii. c. 14. Our Saviour at no time exprest any great desire to teach the obstinate and unteachable Pharisees; but when they came to tempt him, then least of all.-Id. Tetrachordon. Cort. Wild and untaught are terms which we alone Invent, for fashions differing from our own: For all their customs are by nature wrought, But we, by art, unteach what nature taught. Dryden. The Indian Emperour, Act i. sc. 1. Almanz. Forgive that fury which my soul does move; 'Tis the essay of an untaught first love. Id. 1 Pt. Conquest of Granada, Act iii. If we furnish them with money also, they will often misapply it. If we procure them advice and medicines: dispersed, and unprovided, and unteachable as they are, the charge will usually be heavy, and the success very uncertain.-Secker, vol. v. Ser. 10. And now my only son, new to the toils Far hence, for whose dear cause I sorrow more UN-TEMPERATE. UNTE'MPERATELY. UNTE'MPERED. son, circumstances require. Untempered, -not moderated, modified, qualified, seasoned. In Castyle there is nothynge but harde rockes and mountaynes, whiche are nat good to eate, and an vntemperate ayre, and troubled ryuers. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. ii. c. 124. When their geastes beeyng already drunke, haue their mouthes out of taste, & powre in drinke entemperally, then thei bring and serue of the werst sort.-Udal. John, c. 2. What life lead testy men then, that consume their days In inward frets, untemper'd hates, at strife with some always. Surrey. Paraph. on Ecclesiastes, c. 5. Why give you peace to this untemperate beast That hath so long transgressed you? Beaum. & Fletch. Maid's Tragedy, Act v. This ravening fellow has a wolf in's fellow; Untemperate knave, will nothing quench thy appetite? Id. Woman Pleas'd, Act i. sc. 2. There is not one stone of a new foundation laide by us; yea the old wal stands still onely the ouercasting of those ancient stones with the untempered morter of new inventions, displeaseth us.-Bp. Hall. The Old Religion, c. 3. "Let us not," says his last ingenious biographer, "condemn him with untempered severity, because he was not a prodigy which the world hath seldom seen, because his character included not the poet, the orator, and the hero." Johnson. Life of Waller. The untempered spirit of madness, blindness, iminorality, and impiety, deserves no commendation. Burke. Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs. UN-TEMPTED. Not tried or put to the trial; not tried by allurement, enticement, or persuasion; not allured or enticed. Can you imagine A maid, whose beauty could not suffer her Beaum. & Fletch. Woman-Hater, Act iv. sc. 1. Lastly how should our joy be seasoned with a cautious fear, when we cast our eyes upon those objects of dread, and horror, the principalities and powers of darkness, not so confined to their hell, as to leave us untempted, and increasing their sin and torment by our temptation. Bp. Hail. The Invisible World, § 12. UN-TE'NABLE. That cannot or may not be held, or kept supported. that they themselves are afraid or ashamed to own it. Their main scheme appearing so gross, and so untenable, Waterland. Works, vol. iv. Introd. Casaubon, who cou'd not but be sensible of his author s blind side, thinks it time to abandon a post that was untenable-Dryden. Juvenal, Ded. (Famous in Cæsar's prayses, no whit lesse Then in his feasts deseruing it) for him And his succession, granted Rome a tribute, Yeerely three thousand pounds; which (by thee) lately Is left 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 R. Brunne, p. 241. My Troilus shall in his herte deme 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 foorth 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, A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.-B. Jonson. Poetaster, Ded. The husbandman ought not, for one unthankful year, to forsake the plough.-Id. Bartholomew Fair, Act iii. sc. 1. At length he had considered his owne state, and weied how vnthankefullie the French king and his brother had dealt with him. Holinshed. Chron. of England. Hen. VII. an. 1173. So that the pride of vaine glorie To whome no man maie be felawe.-Gower. Con. A. b. i. Go work, hunt, exercise! (he thus began) If then plain bread and milk will do the feat, Pope. Imitation of Horace, b. ii. Sat. 2. Loos'd at its source by tepefying strains, Cooper. Power of Harmony, b. i. UN-THEOLOGICAL. 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 enthoughtfull, with the rechelesnesse of the father, and wantonnesse of the mother, leaue the iuste trauaile, and take vniust idlenes.-Golden Boke, c. 37. Before His highnesse shall speake in, I do beseech Shakespeare. Hen. VIII. Act ii. sc. 4. Dare I prophane, so irreligious be, B. Jonson. Under-woods, Elegy 9. But on the other side, the shallow, unthinking vulgar, are sure of all things, and bestow their peremtory, full assent on every slight appearance.-Glanvill, Ess. 1. A little inconsiderate accident, the breach of a vein, an ill air, a little ill-digested portion of that excess wherein they delight, may put a period to all those pleasures, and to that life, in a week, in a year, in a day, in a hour, in an unthought moment, before a man hath an opportunity to consider, to bethink himself, or to repent. Hale. Cont. Of Wisdom and the Fear of God. During the current of that tyranny, which for so many years we all groan'd under, he [Hammond] kept a constant equable serenity and unthoughtfulness in outward actions. Fell. Life of Hammond, § 2. The dull, flat falsehood serves for policy; 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. Milton. Comus. Creseide with a sigh, right in this wise Chaucer. Troil. & Cres. b. iv. God forfid that nise vnthrifty thought shoulde come 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 vnthriue, 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 vnthrifte to be new borne an honest and a well disposed manne.-Udal. Luke, c. 15. Beysdes theis, a great multitude of vnthrifts and cut throtes were flocked thither out of all Gallia. Goldinge. Cæsar, fol. 76. Some in Parys sayde: it is pytie these enthriftes be vnhauged or drowned, for tellyng of suche lies. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. ii. c. 218. Except suche rybaudes, and vnthrifiye people, as desyred nothynge but yuell and noyse, all the other (gladlye they sayde) wolde haue rest and peace, what soeuer came therof. 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, abhominable, lewdly, unthriftelie, madly, vngratiously and by that that cometh forth, make coniecture, what lieth hid secretly, & closelie within.-Vives. Instruction of a Christian Woman, c. 14. Admytte thy wyfe be of croked condicions, or a nyce 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 example 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 Son. An other no lesse is, that such plentie of vittayle, as was aboundauntly in euery quarter, for the reliefe of vs all, is nowe all wastfully and vnthriftfully spent, in mainteyning you vnlawfull rebelles.-Sir J. Cheeke. Hurt of Sedition. And gossip mine I'll keep you sure hereafter Full many mischiefes follow cruell Wrath; Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 4. And after them a rude, confused rout Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 12. God's familie admitteth of no dwarfes (which are unthricing and stand at a stay) but men of measures. Bp. Hall. Meditations & Vowes, Cent. 1. 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 be quiet, and his mind be attentive, and his society be lawful, and his desires be earnest and passionate, and his devotions persevering.-Bp. Taylor, vol. i. Ser. 6. Ber. Unthrifts will starve if we before-hand give, Ill see you shall have just enough to live. Dryden. Tyrannick Love, Act ii. sc. 1 Thus, as some fawning usurer does feed He therefore that is such a niggard of his time, that he graizeth 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 thricing, 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 wnthrone we then Id. Paradise Lost, b. ii. Whit untidy tales. he teonede fui ofte Bale. On the Revelations, pt. i. (1550.) UN-TIE, v. To loosen, to set free-that UNTY'ING, n.which binds, holds or keeps fast; to resolve, to solve. And thei geden forth & founden a colt tyed before the gate withoute forth in the meeting of tweie weyes and thei untieden him, and summe of hem that stooden there seiden to hem what doen ye untiynge the colt !-Wiclif. Mark, c.¡l. ! And suche a daies be nowe fele It loues courte, as it is saide, That lette her tonges gone enteide.-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 gether in a maner untied, they were abroad in the streetes themselues, to see the vttermost of it Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 613. The pleasure I take in her Thus I blow off: the care I took to love her, Like this point, I untie, and thus I loose it; The husband I am to her, thus I sever. Beaum. & Fletch. Woman's Prize, Act iv. sc. 4. 2 Ten. You make of love a riddle, or a chain, A circie, 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 unfying happen there. 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, 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 entyll 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; 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, 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 rntild, 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. UN-TIMBERED. (of strong materials). Cowper. Homer. Iliad, b. i. Not built or constructed In the se sailand to [Toune], & whan he com to lond R. Brunne, p. 227. And also resonable houre for to ete by mesure, that is to say, a man shal not ete in untime, ne sit the longer at the table, for he fasteth.-Chavcer. Persones Tale, v. 386. Thou in dull corners dost thyselfe inclose, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 2. B. Jonson. Cynthia's Revels, Act i. sc. 1. 2129 Their so frequent martyrdomes, of what excellency or avail, if after all they should be hurried out of this world, and all their fortunes and possessions, by untimely, by disgraceful, by dolorous deaths, to be set before a tribunal, to give account of their universal neglect, and contemning of 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 of temporal death; and not merely the dissolution, which is directly no evil, but an inlet to a better state. Id. To the Bishop of Rochester. Here (were there words to express such sentiments with proper tenderness) I should record the beauty, innocence, and untimely death, of the first object my eyes ever beheld with love. Tatler, 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 iii. 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 untinged and which they are that upon the bodies that terminate them do paint either the primary or secondary iris. Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 727. Your inattention I cannot pardon. Pope has the same defect, and it is of all others the most mortal to conversation: neither is Bolingbroke untinged with it. Swift to Gay, July 10, 1732. UN-TIRED. Į Not harassed or distressed, UNTIRABLE. vexed or troubled, wearied or fatigued. As in a picture limb'd unto the life, Browne. Britannia's Pastorals, b. ii. s. 1. A son was born; but to prevent that crime, Dryden. Edipus, Act iii sc. 1. When he adds to all this that he will do it right early he intimates to us the particular time, at which such resolutions as these are best executed; 'tis in the morning, the season of devotion, when the mind is fresh and vigorous, 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 aeprived 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 untitled queene, Was brought to her sad doome, as heere was to be seene. O natio miserable! UN-TO. Shakespeare. Macbeth, Act iv. sc. 3. On or in to. Into the se side chaced thei Sir Lowys, He durst not abide, no turne Thebald his vis [visage]. & geldes vp alle the bondes of homage & feaute, I aske respite for to avisen mee. Chaucer. Assembly of Fowies. 12 P Jesus began to speake unto the people of John: To se what, wet ye out into the wyldernes? went ye out to se a reede shaken wyth the wynde?-Bible, 1551. Matt. c. 11. For vnto whome muche is geuen, of him shal be much required.-Id. Luke, c. 12. This being therefore presupposed, from that knowne relation which God hath unto vs, as onto children, and vnto all good things as ento effects, whereof himselfe is the principall cause, these axiomes and lawes naturall concerning our dutie haue arisen.-Hooker. Ecclesiasticall Politie, b. i. § 8. By which Astrologers, as well As those in heav'n above, can tell Unto her under-world below.-Hudibras, pt. ii. c. 2. And I'd be loth to have you break 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 so: or elles must haue left his tale untold. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1009. And all her sisters seeing her sad stowre, Did weep and waile, and made exceeding mone, And all their learned instruments did breake, The rest, vntold, no liuing tongue can speake. Spenser. Teares of the Muses. Three nights I hous'd him, and within my cot Cowper. Homer. Odyssey, b. xvii. UN-TOLERABLE. See INTOLERABLE. That cannot or may not be borne or suffered, supported, sustained, or endured. The pope himselfe is nowe becomme vntolerable. No tyran was ever hable to matche him in pompe, and pride. Jewel. Defence of the Apologie, p. 618. Insomuche as if a manne geue you a blowe vpon the cheke (which is accounted commonlie an 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-TO/MBED. How could Ezra heare this with his clothes, his haire, his beard untorne?-Bp. Hall. Cont. Zerubabel & Ezra. And the truth is, that as long as that small remainder of land, belonging to the church shall continue yet 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. UN-TOUCHABLE. Į That may not be felt UNTOUCHED. by the sense of touch; that may not be fingered, handled; not reached, not affected; in any way acted upon or intermeddled with. Further Theophylacte saithe, the body of Christe is eaten ; but the Godheade is not eaten bicause it is untoucheable, and vncomprehensible vnto cur senses. Jewell. Defence of the Apologie, p. 239. This one matter is sufficiet to declare the moderacion & clemencye that was then in Alexander; for he did not only pardon Madates, but also left the citie vntouched. Brende. Quintus Curtius, fol. 112. And surely, were not their persons sacred, that is, by the laws of God and man, untouchable as to prejudice; and so. protected against the malice, the envy, the fury, and the rabidness of self-ended man: it would not be an easie matter to conjure him into that enchanting circle. Feltham, pt. ii. Res. 66. For as to the greatest part of them, even those masters of definitions were fain to leave them [simple ideas] untouched, merely by the impossibility they found in it. Locke. Hum. Underst. b. iii. c. 4. Ulysses conscious of his life untouch'd, UN-TOWARD. UNTO WARDLY. UNTO WARDNESS. Cowper. Homer. Iliad, b. xi. In Gower,-Unto-ward, equivalent to-Toward. In the rest,-Untoward. Not coming to, acceding to, yielding or comRemoved from, taken out plying; not docile or tractable, or manageable; What philosopher durst haue enterpryse to propoune suche thynges as these, so ferre contrarye to all mennes opinion or thinkyng, and thynges so vntouthsome for menne to bee fonde on, or to make anie great countenaunce vnto. Udal. Luke, Pref. The hony of the island Corsica of all other is counted most unpleasant and untoothsome.-Holland. Plinie, b. xiii. c. 4. I speak not of Popish mock-fasts: in change, not in forbearance, in change of courser cates of the land, for the curious dainties of the water, of the flesh of beasts, for the flesh of fish; of untoothsome morsells for sorbitiunculae 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. averse, perverse, awkward. Ye father ofte it hath ben so, Gower. Con. A. b. iv. The last of this diuision Stant untowarde 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 entowardly 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 maintaine it, when it is vttered. Hooker. A Discourse of Justification, § 39. Which as many as use, worke their own mischiefe ard destruction, dancing (as the proverbe saith) a dance untowardly about a pits brinke, or jesting with edged tooles. Holland. Plutarch, p. 88. Even in trees as well as in other living creatures, there is a certaine infelicitie, which may be well tearmed, a drawfish untowardnesse.-Id. Plinie, b. xii. c. 2. Let me embrace my friend. Rose. How untowardly he returns the salute. UN-TRA/CED. UNTRA CEABLE. UNTRACKED. UNTRACTABLE. UNTRA CTABLENESS. UNTRACTABILITY. Untraced, or Un tracked, not distinguished, not discerned, by marks formed in passing; by paths, by footsteps, or vestiges. Untractable (see INTRACTABLE),-that may not be drawn or led along (in a given way or road); that cannot be managed, guided, or governed. But if he be so vntractable that he wyll be 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 untracked and untrodden? if I may not rather say the way is untracked and found by few, because it is narrow and not easie to tread in.-Bp. Hall. Soliloquies, Sol. 68. But I Toild out my uncouth passage, forc't to ride Milton. Paradise Lost, b. x. He [God] puts on a rigid, rough and untractable carriage, even towards his dearest children, even then when he means 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 in a secret unperceivable way in this new birth. Leighton. Com. on 1 Peter, c. 1. Who can alone discover the wiles, and fathom the depths of Satan, and track him through all his windings and (otherwise untraceable) labyrinths. Boyle. Works, vol. ii. p. 261. So the eagle, 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 untractableness 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, 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. c. 10. His [Condorcet] untractability 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-TRA'DED. 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 untraded place, will perhaps secretly hasten thither, may bee beholding to mee for this caueat, if they take notice thereof. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 682. That he may deliuer vp vnto Messias at his comyng a people not vtterlie vntraded or vnentered in his discipline, but somwhat prepaired already & instructed therunto with the agnisyng & knowelageyng of theyr owne synfulnesse. Udal. Luke, c. 1. 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 net so liable to casualties as money, in untrading and unskilful hands.-Locke. |