presented. Cassibulan thine vnkle (Famous in Caesar's prayses, no whit lesse Then in his feasts deseruing it) for him And his succession, granted Rome a tribute. Yeerely three thousand pounds; which (by thee) lately UN-TENT, ". Blastes and fogges vpon thee: Th' ralented woundings of a father's curse Shakespeare. Lear, Act i. sc. 4. or dismayed. Yet stands he stiff. undash'd; unterrify'd ; Daniel. Civil Wars, b. vi. On th' other side Shakes pestilence and warr.-Milton. Paradise Lost, b. ii. UN-THANK. UNTHANKFUL. UNTHANKFULLY, UNTILA'NKFULNESS. Unthank,-no thanks, no gratitude, no good will. Unthankful,-not grate ful not sensible of kindness; not expressing a Forth went knyght & sueyn, & fote men alle in fere, R. Brunne, p. 241. My Trollus shall in his herte dem? Chaucer. Troil. & Cres. b. v. Unthank come on his hand that bond him so, And he that better shuld have knit the rein. Id. The Reves Tale, v. 4081. He wyll thynke. that his seruaunte broughte hym thither onely for vayne glorye, and as a beholder and wōderer at the riches that he him selfe gaue hym, which the other vnthankefully doth attribute to his owne fortune or policie. Sir T. Elyol. The Governour, h. iii. c. 2. Wherein our miserie is so muche the greater, that in s0 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 If all the world UNT A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.-B. Jonson. Poelaster, 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 Holinshed. Chron. of England. Hen. VII. an. 1173. Dryden. 2 Pt. Conquest of Granada, Act iii. 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 hread and milk will do the feat, Pupe. Imitation of Horace, b. ii. Sat. 2. Loos'd at its source by tepefying strains, Cooper. Power of Harmony, b. i. Tell that questionist, that, to argue from scripture nega- They as enthoughtfull, with the rechelesnesse of the His highnesse shall speake in, I do beseech Shakespeare. Hen. VIII. Act ii. sc. 4. Dare I prophane, so irreligious he, B. Jonson. Under-woods, Elegy 9. 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. The dull, flat falsehood serves for policy; Pope. Moral Essays, Ep. 1. It were some extenuation of the curse, if in sudore vullus Far other arms and other weapons must UN-THREATEN, v. UN-THRIFT. See UNREPRoach. Unthrift, one who gathers not, hoards not, keeps not; who is not frugal, provident, cautious, careful; who is lavish, wasteful, profuse, prodigal. Unthriving, not hoarding or acquiring; not pros Creseide with a sigh, right in this wise Chaucer. Troil. & Cres. b. iv. God forfid that nise unthrifty 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, Id. Cuckow and the Nightingale Therefore dooe not thou thinke that he is returned hometo thee the same manne that he was: but thinkebym of an vnthrifle to be new borne an honest and a well disposed manne.--Udal. Luke, c. 15. Beysdes theis, a great multitude of anthrifts and cut throtes were flocked thither out of all Gallia. Goldinge. Cæsar, fol. 76. Some in Parys sayde: it is pytie these enthrifles be rnhauged or drowned. for tellyng of suche lies. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, voi. li. e. 218. Except suche rybaudes, and vnthriftye 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 nind, 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 pinishly, foolishly, foul, horrible, abhominable, lewdly, onthriftelie, madly, vngratiously and by that that cometh forth, make coniecture, what lieth hid secretly, & closelic within.-Vives. Instruction of a Christian Womau, c. 14. Admytte thy wyfe be of croked condicions, or a nyce wanton, or geuen to other vnthriftynesse: destroye her not with ragyng crueltie, but heale her and amende her vith sobre lenitie.-Udal. Ephesians, c. 5. You therefore if ye be sure, and have God in your sleere. to call you to his grace at last, venture hardily by mine ex-ample upon naughty unthriftiness, in trust of his goodness; and besides the shame, I dare lay ten to one ye shall perishr in the adventure-Wat, Let. 1. To his Son. An other no lesse is, that such plentie of vittayle, as was. abeundauntly in euery quarter. for the reliefe of vs all, is nowe all wastfully and unthriftfully spent, in mainteyning: you vnlawfull rebelles.-Sir J. Cheeke. Hurt of Sedition. And gossip mine I'll keep you sure hereafter Beaum. & Fletch. Knight of the Burning Pestle, Act iv. And after them a rude, confused rout Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 12. God's familie admitteth of no dwarfes (which are untlgiv ing 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, He therefore that is such a niggard of his time, that he grudgeth to withhold any part thereof from his worldly occasions, deeming all time cast away that is laid out in waiting upon God, is really most unthrifty and prodigal thereof.-Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 7. It is therefore the greatest want of policy, the worst illhusbandry and untkriftliness that can be, to be sparing this way [bounty to the poor], he that useth it cannot be thriv ing; 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. il. Either to disinthrone the king of Heav'n We warr, if warr be best, or to regain Our own right lost him to unthrone we then May hope when everlasting fate shall yield To fickle chance, and chaos judge the strife. And many a fals treuthe Whit untidy tales. he teonede ful 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 withoufe forth in the meeting of tweie weyes and thei untieden bim, and summe of hem that stooden there seiden to hem what doen ye unliynge the colt?-Wiclif. Mark, c.11. And suche a daies be nowe fele In loues courte, as it is saide, That lette her tonges gone vnleide.-Gower. Con. 4. b. iii. For els I am ouerthrowe In all that euer ye haue seide, My sorowe is euermore vnleide. Aud secheth ouer all my veynes.-Id. Ib. b. iv. At euery which alarme, the two lordes generall shewed themselues maruelous ready & forward, insomuch that at the very first alarme, skant wel furnished with any more defence then their shirts, hose, and dublets, & those too altogether in a maner vntied, they were abroad in the streetes themselues, to see the vttermost of it. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 613. The pleasure I take in her Thus I blow off; the care I took to love her, Like this point, I untie, and thus I loose it; The husband I am to her, thus I sever. Beaum. & Fletch. Woman's Prize, Act iv. sc. 4. 2 Ten. You make of love a riddle, or a chain, A circle, a mere knot; untie't again. Bas. Love is a circle, both the first and last 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 inust the fable, that would hope the fate Id. Horace. Art of Poetrie, I have shewn also how it unties the inward knot of marriage, which is peace and love (if that can be unly'd which was never knit) while it aims to keep fast the outward formality.-Milton. Doct. & Disc. of Divorce, b. i. c. 9. That is the immediate link of the union in such a life; and the untying and death consists chiefly in the disengagement of the heart, breaking off the affection from it. Leighton. Com. on 1 Peler, c. 2. VOL. II. 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, He hadde ymade ful many a marriage Chaucer. Prol. to the Canterbury Tales, v. 215. I am with ye, & wyl be thy keper in al places whither thou goest, & wyl bring the agayne in to this lande: nether wyl I leaue the vntyll I haue made good al that I haue promysed the.-Bible, 1551. Genesis, c. 18. In the former treatyse (deare frende Theophilus) I haue wrytten of all that Jesus beganne to do and teache, vntyll the daye in which he was taken vp. Id. Actes of the Apostles, c. 1. Vnwise and wretched men to weet whats good or ill, We deeme of death as doome of ill desert; But knew we fooles, what it vs brings untill Die would we daily, once it to expert. Spenser. Shepheard's Calender. November. But all so soone, as he from farr descride Those glistring armes, that heauen with light did fill, He rous'd himselfe full blithe, and hastned them ontill. Id. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 11. Upon speaking with the master, we learnt that they had broke their fore-stay, and the gammon of the bowsprit, and were in no small danger of having all their masts come by the board; so that we were obliged to bear away until they had made all fast, after which we haled upon a wind again. Anson. Voyages, b. i. c. 8. And if any Trojan came, Obsequious to the will of Hector, arm'd With fire to burn the fleet, on his spear's point Ajax receiving wounded him, until Twelve died in conflict with himself alone. Cowper. Homer. Iliad, b. xv. UN-TILE, v. To remove or take away the tiles, or coverings, (sc. of baked or dried clay.) Jag. Unless you'll drop through the chimney like a daw, or force a breach i' th' windows: you may untile the house, tis possible.-Beaum. & Fletch. Woman's Prize, Act i. sc.3. Not raised, turned, cultivated. UN-TILLED. UNTIL.LABLE. } From the seventh day of December till the ninetenth day of March (as Walsingham and other old writers doo report), the ground laie vntild, to the great hinderance and losse of all growing things on the earth. Holinshed. Chronycles of England. Edw. III. an. 1364. 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 UN-TIMBERED. (of strong materials). Cowper. Homer. Iliad, b.i. Not built or constructed Where's then the sawcy boate, Whose weake vntimber'd sides but euen now Co-riuall'd greatnesse? either to harbour fled, Or made a toste for Neptune. Shakespeare. Troyl. & Cress. Act i. sc. 3. UN-TIMELY, adj. UNTIMELY, ad. UNTIMELINESS. UNTIMEOUSLY. Not seasonable, or in good time; too carly, too soon. 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, no sit the longer at the table, for he fasteth.-Chaucer. 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. so. 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.-Taller, No. 181. Mon. If I not press untimely on his leisure, You would much bind a stranger to your service, To give me means of audience from the emperor. Rowe. Tamerlane, Act 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 un tinged and which they are that upon the bodies that terminate them do paint either the primary or secondary iris. Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 727. Your inattention I cannot pardon. Pope has the same defect, and it is of all others the most mortal to conversation: neither is Bolingbroke untinged with it. UN-TIRED.) fatigued. Swift to Gay, July 10, 1732. Not harassed or distressed, vexed or troubled, wearied or 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 deprived of a name-of honourable distinction, a name of distinction. Such be the meed of all, that by such meane Vnto the type of kingdoms title climes. But false Duessa, now vntitled queene, Was brought to her sad doome, as heere was to be seene. O natio miserable! Shakespeare. Macbeth, Activ. sc. 3. UN-TO.. On or in to. & geldes vp alle the bondes of homage & feaute, Chaucer. Assembly of Fowles, 12 P Unto my preest, whiche cometh anone, Id. Ib. Id. Ib. I woll thou tell it one and one. He leyth downe his one eare all plat Jesus began to speake unto the people of John: To se For onto whome muche is geuen, of him shal be much This being therefore presupposed, from that knowne rela- 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 Or innovation introduce That might b' unwholsome to your spurs ; An ancient custom for a freak, In place of things of antique use; To free your heels by any course, Which if I should consent unio, It is not in my pow'r to do.; İd. c. 1. UN-TOILED, i.e. Untilled, (qv.) It loveth to grow in rough and untoiled places. Holland. Plinie, b. xxv. c. 5. How could Ezra heare this with his clothes, his haire, his And the truth is, that as long as that small remainder of But Phoebus, pitying even after death UN-TOUCHABLE. Which as many as use, worke their own mischiefe and Even in trees as well as in other living creatures, there Let me embrace my friend. UN-TOLD. Not spoken or uttered, related, that may not be fingered, handled; not reached, them most good.-Hales. Rem. Ser. on Luke, xviii. 1. 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. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1009. Spenser. Teares of the Muses. Three nights I hous'd him, and within my cot Cowper. Homer. Odyssey, b. xvii. The pope himselfe is nowe becomme ontolerable. No Insomuche as if a manne geue you a blowe vpon the UN-TO'MBED. not affected; in any way acted upon or inter- Further Theophylacte saithe, the body of Christe is eaten ; And surely, were not their persons sacred, that is, by the Ulysses conscious of his life untouch'd, If the ways of God's universal providence be untraceable, So the eagle, Rowe. Ulysses, Act iii. Which great difference in men's intellectuals, whether it Nor wonder, if (advantag'd in my flight, Denham. Cooper's Hill. Removed from, taken out plying; not docile or tractable, or manageable; rendered it a tedious and difficult operation. of the tomb, grave, or sepulchre. If any man doubt of the strange antiquities delivered by UN-TOOTH, v.) Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. vii. c. 18. UNTO'OTHSOME. the tooth; i. e. the taste, the palate. What philosopher durst haue enterprysed to propoune I speak not of Popish mock-fasts: in change, not in for- Bp. Hall. Sermon before the King, March 30, 1628. Id. Occasional Meditations, Med. 123. Thou shalte goe afore him to prepaire mennes heartes to For ye report that rawe and ragged clause whych ye have We intend no further to instant or press him thereof, but Such is the untoward constitution of our nature, that we Cook. Third Voyage, b. vi. c. 10. His [Condorcet] untractability to these leaders, and his UN-TRA'DED. Not frequented or resorted Our English that to steale the first blessing of an untraded Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 682. That he may deliuer vp vnto Messias at his comyng a By Mars his gauntlet, thanks! UN-TRAINED. Not drawn (in the way But yet these shadowes of thynges visible wer geuen for a tyme to the grosse and entrained people, to the ende thei might one daie in processe of tyme by these first introducciōs, growe and procede foreward to thynges of the mynde. Udal. Luke, c. 24. Alas, what is to be lookt for of raw untaught untrained men (if such should be called forth of their shops on the sudden) that know not so much as their files or motions, or postures, but either flight or filling of ditches. Bp. Hall. St. Paul's Combat, pt. ii. Hebrew Borith, which word Arias Montanus in his interlineary Bible reteineth untranslated. Fuller. Worthies. Bristol. I might insist that the term translated everlasting, ought to be preserved untranslated, as a kind of technical term, and called Aionian. Search. Light of Nature, vol. ii. pt. iii. c. 30. To me they appear untranslatable. [Lines from Richard the 3d's description of himself.] Gray. To West, April 1742. UN-TRANSPARENT. Not shining through. We have found more than once that some pieces of glass [so] prepared, though held against the light, appear'd of a transparent yellow, yet looked on with one's back turned to the light, exhibited an untransparent blue. Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 735. UN-TRANSPA'SSABLE. gone or passed over. Are these the bounds y' have given That cannot be That limit pride so short ?-Daniel. Cleopatra. UN-TRAVELLED. Not having gone or passed a wearisome length of way; not having gone, passed, journeyed, through countries, over seas; not having visited foreign countries. What if they should? why, if they should, I say, they were never abroad: what foreigner would do so? it writes them directly untravel'd.-Beaum. & Fletch. Philaster, Acti. I have heard it observed more than once, by those who have seen Italy, that an untravelled Englishman cannot relish all the beauties of Italian pictures, because the ges tures which are expressed in them are often such as are peculiar to that country.-Spectator, No. 407. Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, Goldsmith. The Traveller. UN-TREAD, v. Į To tread back again; to UNTRO'DDEN. pass back the same way or road. Untrodden, UN-TREASURED. Deprived of its treasure, or store of wealth, or riches, or any thing precious. 1 Lo. I cannot heare of any that did see her, The ladies her attendants of her chamber Saw her a bed, and in the morning early They found the bed vntreasur'd of their mistris. Shakespeare. As You Like It, Act ii. sc. 2. UN-TREATABLE. That cannot be managed; that cannot be composed or arranged. Thou shalt not wenen (quod she) that I beare an entretable batayle [inexorabile bellum] ayenst fortune. Chaucer. Boecius, b. ii. If we carry thither with us a perverse and untreatable temper, that will not endure either to submit or condescend, we shall be sure to find the same humour reigning thro'out all the society of the wicked.-Scolt. Christian Life, pt. i. c.3. UN-TREMBLING. Not shaking or shud dering. Others were sent more chearful, free, and still as it were Chaucer, The Assemblie of Fowles. But where ye ended haue, now I begin Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vi. c. 1. Drayton. Barons' Wars, 6. 87. Not passed on foot; not walked or trampled on; where no path has been made. Where is the horse that does vntread againe Sal. We do beleeue thee, and beshrew my soule, Of this most faire occasion, by the which id. King John, Act v. sc. 4. (Those scatter'd troops from Barnet that escap'd,) Through untrod grounds, in many a tedious hour, Flock to her daily.-Drayton. Miseries of Q. Margaret. Methinks the downs are sweeter, And the young company of swains far meeter, Than those forsaken and untroden places. Beaum. & Fletch. Faithful Shepherdess, Act 1. The most frequented once, and noisie part Dryden. dipus, Act i. No fleecy flocks dwell there, nor plough is known Cowper. Homer. Odyssey, b. ix. whether Bianca meant to scoff at the finical or slovenly appearance of her husband's beard. Cen. O Leuis, stand fast, the deuill tempts thee heere, In likenesse of a new untrimmed bride. Shakespeare. K. John, Act iii, sc, 1, Bian. Can you imagine, sir, the name of Duke Could make a crooked leg, a scambling foot, A tolerable face, a wearish hand, A bloodless lip, or such an untrimmed beard Ford. Love's Sacrifice, Act v, sc. 1. UNTRIUMPHAble. cere mony in commemoration of the victory). The sun's rise-where into th' ocean Nysks, Hydaspes, and swift Ganges fall, [I] suffer'd you only, when I conquer'd all, To goe vntriumph'd: Parthias king alone Of all th' East's monarchs, scap'd subiection. May. Lucan. Pharsalia, b. viil. UN-TROUBLE, v. UNTRO/UBLED. UNTROUBLEdness. Dryden. Juvenal, Sat. 9. To remove, to free from, to divest of trouble or vexation, distress, molestation, anxious or unpleasing labour or toil. Then with the sunne, take sir your timely rest, Of this vain world, forget your flesh and blood, Beaum. & Fletch. Love's Pilgrimage, Act iv. sc. 2. Art thou troubled with fears, enemies, and snares? untrouble thyself of that for he is with thee. Leighton. Com. on 1 Pet. c. 5. He hath rifled all the sects of the old philosophers, robb'd each of them of his master-piece; the sceptick of his indifference and untroubledness, &c. Hammond. Works, vol. iv. p. 479. Ever chearful in her behaviour, but withal ever calm and even, her satisfaction, like a deep untroubled stream, ran out, without any of that violence, or noise, which sometimes the shallowest pleasures do most abound in. Alterbury, vol. i. Ser. 6. UN-TRUE. Not agreeing with, according UNTRULY. or conformable to, consistent UNTRUTH. with the truth, or with that which is thought or believed, with our thoughts or belief; not faithful or veracious. To undertake the tool. of untrewe sacrifice In the firste epistle of Ioon, where we reden of the oonhede of the trynyte, where we fynden, that ther hath be greet errour of untreue translatouris fro the treuthe of the the feith, while thei sitten in her translaciouns oonli the names of three thingis, that is of watir, of blood, and of the spirit, and leeueth the witnessyng of the fadir, and of the sone, and of the spirit.-Wiclif. James, Prol, O stormy peple, unsad and ever untrewe, Chaucer. The Clerkes Tale, v. 8872. Ne shall I never ben an untrewe wif Id. The Frankeleines Tale, v. 11,297. Id. The Marchantes Tale, v, 10,115. He thought aye well, he had his lady lorne, And that Joves, of his purveyaunce, Him shewed had in sleepe the signifiaunce Of her vntrouth. Id. Troil. & Cres, b. v. And he shewed him trewe tidynges, and vntrewe, for he made him beleue howe all the countre of Wales woldo gladlye haue hym to be their lorde. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 332. For, concerning signification [of this word Bishop], first it is clearly untrue that no other thing is thereby signified but only an oversight in respect of a particular church and congregation.-Hooker. Ecclesiasticall Politie, b. vii. § 11. [The earle of Buckingham] tooke the sea, and returned into England, sore displeased with the duke of Britaine for his great ontruth and dissimulation (as he tooke it) notwithstanding all excuses to cloake the matter by him alledged. Holinshed. Chron. of England, Rich. II. au. 1380. Bust. It must be faced, you know there will be a yard of dissimulation At least (city measure) and cut upon an untroth or two. That which they have been reproved for is, not because they did therein utter an untruth, but such a truth as was not sufficient to bear up the cause which they did thereby seek to maintain.-Hooker. Ecclesiasticall Politie, b. viii. Flora commands, said she, those nymphs and knights, UN-TRUSS, v. To remove or deprive of the truss or package; that which packs, binds, or bundles, or closes up. Till at length he was slaine at Edessa a citie in Mesopotamia by one of his owne souldiers, as he was about to ontrusse his points, &c. Holinshed. Historie of England, b. iv. c. 22. Bri. Well done, well done, give me my night-cap. So. B. Jonson. Every Man Out of his Humour, Act ii. sc. 1. Such as on stages play, such as we see The Dryads painted, whom wilde satyres loue, And silken roabes tuckt short aboue their knee; Fairefax. Godfrey of Boulogne, b. xviii. Neither shall you, at any time, ambitiously affecting the title of the untrussers or whippers of the age, suffer the itch of writing to over-run your performance in libel. B. Jonson. Poelaster, Act v. sc. 1. Come, we'll go see how far forward our journeyman is toward the untrussing of him.-Id. Ib. Act iv. sc. 5. Of loue, and somdele of untrust.-Gower. Con. A. b. v. Edricus was of lowe byrth, ryche of tunge, falce, and subtyll of wytte, softe and eloquent of speche, vntrusty and false of thought and promyse. Fabyan. Chronycle, c. 199. As they had shewed themselves false and untrustie to their owne lawfull king, so they would not continue anie long time true vnto a stranger. The king gaue credit to these tales, and therefore had the lords in great gelousie, notwithstanding they were thought to be his most true and faithfull subiects, and the other craftie, deceitfull, and entrustie. Nor less admire This tumult untumultuous; all on wing!' UN-TUNE, v. } Young. Complaint, Night 9. Spenser. Colin Clout's come home againe. Crashaw. Upon the Duke of York's Death. As one broken link dissolves the union of the whole chain, and one jarring untuned string spoils the whole musick, so is every sin that seizes upon a portion of our affections; if we love one, that one destroys the acceptation of all the rest.-Bp. Taylor, vol. i. Ser. 12. He who sees not this argument how plainly it deserves to divorce any untunable, or unatonable matrimony, sees little.-Milton. Tetrachordon. An odious and unpleasant thing it is, to hear a hen keep a creaking or cackling, and a cow untowardly and untunably crying.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 586. On other occasions we have drawn two words into one, which has likewise very much untuned our language, and clogged it with consonants, as "mayn't, can't, shan't, won't," and the like, for "may not, can not, shall not, will not, &c." Spectator, No. 135. Their poetry then was made up almost entirely of monosyllables; which, when they came together in any cluster, are certainly the most harsh untuneable things in the world. Waller. Pref. to Poems, (ed. 1690.) UN-TURNED. Not moved round; revolved, Nevertheless in the mean time they left no stone un- After you shall have left no stone unturned to avoid it disciplined. We are two simple maids untutor'd, here, sir; Beaum. & Fletch. Loyal Subject, Act iv. sc. 3. She had sixty-seven killed in the action, and eighty-four wounded, whilst the Centurion had only two killed, and a lieutenant and sixteen wounded, all of whom but one recovered: of so little consequence are the most destructive arms in untutored and unpractised hands. v.? Anson. Voyages, b. iil. c. 8. Id. Ib. Rich. II. an. 1387. But such as are to be warned, that by the same wherin they offend, they shall be punished, euen with seruants faithlesse to plague their untrustinesse. Id. Ib. Rich. III. an. 1330. Of Secretary Petre he gives this character:-" under pretence of gravity, covered much untrustiness of heart." Hayward. Life of Edward VI. Wise David knowes Saul not to be more kinde than untrusty; and therefore had rather seek safety in his hold, than in the hold of a hollow and unsteady friendship. Bp. Hall. Cont. Saul in David's Cave. UN-TUMULTUOUS. Not noisy or turbulent; not raising a commotion or confusion. Crashaw. Ep. on Mr. Ashton. For strait his arrows lose their golden heads, and shed their purple feathers, his silken braids untwine, and slip their knots.--Millon. Doct. & Disc. of Divorce, b. i. c. 6. Which made them eftsoones feare the dayes of Pirrha should, Of creatures spoile the earth, Dutch. 'Tis a witch sure, And by her means he came to untwist this riddle. The saints deceiv'd, shall be a sweet mistake, Dryden. Don Sebastian, Act ill. sc. 1. Thomson. To Sir Isaac Newton. But still the solar light is not less real in the rainbow where it's rays become thus untwisted, and each differing thread distinctly seen in its effect, than while they remained united and incorporated with one another in the sun. Warburton. Divine Legation, b. ii. App. UN-VA/CILLATING. Not wavering, unsteady, or inconstant. He was situated like one who walks upon ice, ready to UN-VALUABLE.word Invalued, the in is Cla. Here I swear to thee, By the unvalued love I bear this beauty, Beaum. & Fletch. Woman Pleas'd, Act ii. sc. 6. Browne. Britannia's Pastorals, b. ii. a. 3. No home for her confesses she She'll to the Moors and trade with them, For this unvalued diadem.-Crashaw. Hymn to St. Teresa. I cannot cry his caract up enough; He is unvaluable.-B.Jonson. Magnetic Lady, Act i. sc.1. And from my father [I] received such a character of his learning, humility, and other virtues, that, like jewels of unvaluable price, they still cast such a lustre, as envy or the rust of time shall never darken. King. Letter to Mr. Walton. True it is, that a good name is unvaluable; and all the pelf in the world is not an equal ransom for it. South, vol. x. Ser. 9. That cannot be overpowered UN-VANQUISHABLE. UNVANQUISHED. or overcome, conquered, subdued. For so shall they be strong againste all the troublesome hurlyburlies of thys world, and shall persist unuanquished. On this side, lo! the Getule town behold! Id. 1b. Surrey. Virgile. Eneis, b. iv. But now as concerning that the same vnuanquishable army fighting vnder your ensignes and name, streightwales after it came to land, set fire on their ships; what mooued them so to doo!-Holinshed. Hist. of England, b. iv. c. 24. Whilst the stout queen, by speedy flight, redeem'd The safety of herself, and of her son: And with her Somerset to Durham fled; Her pow'rs suppress'd, her heart unvanquished. Daniel. Civil Wars, b. vii. UN-VANTAGED. benefited or profited. Not aided or assisted, Yet, even thus, unvantag'd and on foot, UN-VARIABLE. Cowper. Homer. Iliad, b. xi. See INVARIABLE. That cannot be altered changed; (actively) their fatall threds vntwist.-Spenser. Muse of Thestylis. that does not alter or change. or 2132 |