TWICE.

TYR

I nam noght shryven som time,
Nought tweys in two yer.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 3315. Enhauncing, and pride, and shrende weie, and the mouth of the twisil tunge (L. V. double tungid, bilinguis) I wlate (loath).- Wic. Prov. viii. 18, et aliter.

Repref forsothe and strif the euel man shal eritagen, and eche synnere enuyous and twisil tungid. (L. V. double tungid.)-Id. Exclus. vi. 1.

And many a Jacke of Dover hast thou sold,
That hath been twies hot and tuies cold.

Id. The Cokes Prol. v. 4346. They (Centaurs) their twy-fold bosoms overgorg'd, Oppos'd in fight to Theseus.

Cary. Dante. Purgatory, b. xxiv. v. 121.

TWIG.
Heel-tap. Now twig him, now mind him.
TWIN.

Foote. The Mayor of Garratt, A. ii.

The girdil forsothe of bijs foldun asen, iacynet, purpur, and reed clooth, twynned with nedle craft. (L.V. departid.) Wic. Er. xxxix. 28. Now tyme of beryng was comen; and loo! twynlingis (gemini) in the woombe of hir weren foundun. ld. Gen. xxv. 24. We may rede and see like thyng in the lyuyng and the condicōns of the bretheren gemellys callid tuynlynges. The Boke of Tulle of Old Age, g2. Carton, 1481. TWINK.

A man apostata. twinclith (L. V. bekenith, annuit) with the eien; he tramplith with foot.- Wic. Prov. vi. 13. The twynclere (annuens) with the eze forgeth wicke thingus.-ld. Eccl. xxvii. 25.

TWISSEL, 8. "A double fruit, or two of a sort growing together." Nares. See TWICE.

As from a tree, we sondrie times espie
A twissel grow by Nature's subtile might,
And beeing two, for cause they grow so nie,
For one are tane.-Turberville. The Louer wisheth, &c.

TWIST, s. A twig. In Wiclif, a hinge; in Chaucer and Fairefax, a twig.

And the herris, ether twistis (cardines), of the temple shuin gretely soune, in that day, saith the Lord God. Wic. Amos viii. 3. He stoupeth doun; and on his back she stood And caught by a twist, and up she goth.

Chaucer. The Marchantes Tale, v. 10223. A murdrer, if thou cut one twist, art thou (sc. in the enchanted grove).

Fairefar. Godfrey of Bulloigne, st. xiii. v. 43. TWIT. Edwite, edwiting, occurs in various readings of Wiclif, where the text reads upbraid, upbraiding.

His wif gan edwyte hym tho',
How wikkedly he lived.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 3213. Dispise thou not a man turnynge awei hem silf from synne, nether upbreide (var. r. edwite, improperes) thou hym.-Wic. Ecclus. viii. 6.

VAU

V. U.

VACUITY. See VACATE.

VAGABOND.

When thou tyllest the grounde she shall henceforth not geue hyr power vnto thee. A vagabunde and a rennagate shalt thou be vpon the earth.

Tyndale. Bible. Gen. c. iv. (1534).

VAGARY. VAGRANT. Fro thi face I shal be hid, and I shal be ragaunt, and fer fugitif in the erthe. (L. V. unstable of dwellyng, vagus.) Wic. Gen. iv. 14. Also in Prov. v. 6, vii. 11. VAGUE, s.

Theyr wanton vagys.-Skelton. Magnyfycence, v. 1968. VAIL. AVALE. To Vail bonnet, or to bonnet, qv. is to pull off the bonnet; opposed to standing with the bonnet on, i. e. unbonnetted, qv.

VAIL, s. A casual emolument; a windfall. Tooke gives two instances of this noun, from the Schole of Cyrus, translated by William Bercker, 1567. See MS. note in Skinner in British Mu

seum.

Wee departed before sunne rising and valed down the riuer, sometime sailing, and sometime rowing. Hackluyt. Voyages, v. i. Southam and Spark, § xxiii.

VAIL. AVAIL.

Y beseche, Lord my king, vaile my preteres (L. V. my preyer be worth, valeat) in thi sizt.-Wic. Jer. xxxvii. 19. It may not helpe playnely, ne vayle, For of thy purpoos playnly thou shalt fayle. Lyfe of our Ladye, k. 52. Caxton.

VAIN. Vanite of vanitees, seide Ecclesiastes, Vanite of vanytes, and alle thingus vanyte.- Wic. Ecc. i. 2.

VALIANT. Fuller writes, A valiant (i. e. strong) smell of garlick.

VALID.

If the power of an usurper is capable of being validated by the subsequent voluntary sanction of those over whom it is usurped, Cæsar had now that ratification. Tytler. Universal History, b. iv. c. 2.

VALUE.
For gode dede done thorough prayire (intreaty)
Is solde and bought to dere, i-wis,
To hert that of grete valure is.

Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose, v. 5239.

VAMP. Although our predecessors went (to be installed) upon cloth right sumptuously, we do intend, God willing, to go afoot, without any such glory, in the vamps of our hosen. Wolsey, A. D. 1539. Tytler, Henry VIII. p. 237.

VANISH.

But thei vanyscheden (evanuerunt) in her thouștis, and the vnwyse herte of hem is derkid or maad derk. Wic. Rom. i. 21.

Rere up thin eyen, and se alle the malis steying up vpon the femalis, varye (varios), and sprynklid, and spottid." Wic. Gen. xxxi. 12.

VAVASOUR.

Others serued on horseback, and were called radknights, or knight riders, as Bracton noteth: and these I take to be Vavasours, noted in the Conqueror's laws; for that their relief is a helmet, a coat of mail, a shield, a spear, and a horse.-N. Bacon. Historical Discourse, c. xxxi. p. 76.

VAULT.

Thou voltest it aboue with waters; thou makest the cloudes thy charet.-Bible, 1549. Ps. civ.

VAUNT.

And eke I knowe, of longè time agone,
His thewes gode, and that he n'is not nice,
No vauntour, saine men, certain he is none;
To wise is he to doen so grete a vice.

Chaucer. Troylus and Cressida, b. ii. v. 724.
For she had led
The infatuate Moor, in dangerous vaunting,
To these aspiring forms.
Southey. Don Roderick, § xxi.

VER

VEER. VER. See VERNAL.

VEIN.

The clotered blood, for any leche-craft,
Corrumpeth, and is in his bouke (bulk) ylaft,
That neyther veine-blood, ne ventousing,
Ne drinke of herbes, may ben his helping.

Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 2749.
VENCUSE. See VANQUISH.
VEND.

Licias-camen azeinus Jewis-demynge hymself to hauynge the temple in to wynnynge of money, as other templis of heithen men, and by eche jeeris prestehode vendible or able to be soold (venale).- Wic. 2 Mac. xi. 2. VENGE. Written Venie, Veniaunce, &c. in Wiclif and others.

For he schal venie (E. V. wreek, ulciscetur) the blood of his seruauntis, and he schal zelde veniaunce (vindictam) in to the enemyes of hem.-Id. 16. xxxii. 43.

To whiche he answeride, Whether e ben the venieris (E. V. wrechers, ultores) of Baal that je fite for him. Id. Judges vi. 31. Forsothe, who the wordis of hym that spekith in my name wol not here, Y veniesour (L. V. vengere, ultor) shal be.- Wic. Deut. xviii. 19.

And the three goddesses, and vengeresses (ultrices) of felonies, that tourmenten and agasten the soules, by anoy woxen sorrowfull, and sory, and teares wepten for pitee. Chaucer. Boecius, b. iii. Met. 12.

VENIAL.

Contricion dooth but dryveth it down
Into a venial synne.-Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 9099.
VENKUSE, i. e. Vanquish, qv.
VENOM.

it the fornycaciouns of Jezabel, thi modir, and hyr many venymyngis thryven (venefica). Wic. 4 Kings ix. 22. Which schal not here the vois of charmeris, and of a venym makere (venefici), charmynge wiseli. Id. Ps. lvii. 6. VENT. In Chaucer (Tyrwhitt), the forepart, from Fr. Avant, before. See in Dictionary. VENTILATE, v. Met.To winnow, to sift, to discuss an old usage (see in Dictionary) lately revived.

appertaining to the Chanons craft, Chan. Yem. Tale, v. 16258.

VERGE. In Chaucer, the inclosure, the gar-
VERGER.den.

And by the honde withoutin doubt
Within the haie, right all about,
He lad me with a right gode chere,
All environ on the vergere
That Daunger had me chaced fro.

Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose, v. 3618. VERGE. To turn. Add the following Quotations omitted—

The farther we go on, especially in a bad course, the nearer we verge to the dregs of our life; the more dry, the more stiff, the more sluggish we grow: delay doth therefore steal away the flour of our age, leaving us the bran and refuse thereof.-Barrow, vol. iii. Serm. 17, p. 188

Let fortune empty her whole quiver on me,

I have a soul, that like an empty shield
Can take in all; and verge enough for more.

Dryden. Don Sebastian, act i. sc. 1.
Wish'd Spring returns; and from the hazy south,
While dim Aurora slowly moves before,
The welcome sun, just verging up at first,
By small degrees extends the swelling curve.
Thomson.

And he goon out thens, com in veer time (verno tempore) to the loond that ledith to Effratam.- Wic. Gen. xxxv. 16. As the azenshynende bowe betweene the litle cloudis of glorie, and as the flour of roses in the dates of ver (vernis). Id. Ecclus. 1. 8. The time

Of Aprill, when clothed is the mede,
With new grene, of lustie veer the prime.

Chaucer. Troylus and Cressida, b. i. v. 157.

VERRE, s. Fr. Verre.

Glass.

Ne beholde thou the win, when it floureth (L. V. sparclith), whan schal shine in the verr (vitro) the colour of it. Wic. Prov. xxiii. 31.

Who that hath an hedde of verre
Fro cast of stones ware him in the werre.
Chaucer. Troylus and Cressida, b. ii. v. 867.

VERSE. The whiche thing versifiures more than a symple redere vnderstonden.-Wic. Pref. to Job, p. 671.

So the versor of a mariner's needle applies itself to the poles of the world.

Wats. Bacon. Advancement of Learning, b. v. c. 2. VERY.

These sothely (ben) the mesures of the anter in a cubit most verre. (L. V. in a verieste cubit, cubito verissimo). Wie. Ez. xliii. 13. Verrei forsothe that frenship is, and thurt the glew of Crist cowplid.-Wic. Bib. Pref. Ep. p. 61. Poverte a spectakel is, as thinketh me, Thurgh which he may his veray frendes see.

Chaucer. Wif of Bathes Tale, v. 6786.

VESPILLOE. Lat. Vespillo. One who carried out the dead for burial in the evening (in vespertino tempore).

By raking into the bowels of the deceased, continual sight of anatomies, skeletons, or cadaverous reliques, like vespilloes, or grave diggers, I am (not) become stupid, nor have I forgot the apprehension of mortality.

VEST.

Browne. Religio Medici, pt. 1, § xxxviii.

I clothid me as (with) a vestyment (vestimento), and with a diademe.-Wic. Job xxix. 14.

Forsothe, thei wenten in a swift paase in the hows of a manner man in Bahurym, that had a pit in his vestiary. (L. V. place, vestibulo.)-Id. 2 Kings xvii. 18.

VIAGE-as Voyage,-by land or water.
This is the point, to speke it plat and plain,
That eche of you, to shorten with youre way,
In this viage shal tellen tales two.

VICAR.

Chaucer. Canterbury Tales. Prol. v. 794.

VILE.

VIR

If a man takith a wijf, and hath hir, and sche fyndith not grace bifor hise isen for sum vilite he schal write a libel, ethir litil book, of forsakyng. (E. V. filthed, vilitatem.)- Wic. Deut. xxiv. 1.

And so it bifelle, that Antiok after flist viliche turned azen. (E. V. loodly, turpiter.)-Id. 2 Mac. ix. 2. VILLAIN.

For the men weren scheut full villensly (turpiter).
Wic. 2 Kings x. 5.

For Vyllany maketh villayne,
And by his dedes a chorle is seyne.
Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose, v. 2181.
These ryllayns arne without pite,
Frendship, and love, and al bounte.-ld. lb.
VINDICATE.

They extol voluptuousness, wilfulness, vindicativeness, arbitrariness, vain glory. Shaftesbury. Miscellanies, v. § 3, v. iii. p. 307.

In the vale of Josaphat.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 12820. And Noe, a man erthe tylyer, bigan to excercise the erthe, and he planted a vine. (L. V. viner, vineam.) Wic. Gen. ix. 20. Grapes of thi first fruytis and ryndage (vindemiam) thou schalt not gedere.-Id. Lev. xxv. 5. And he (Nabuzardan) lefte of the pore men of the lond vyntilieris (E. V. wyne-makers, vinitores), and erthe tiliers. Id. 4 Kings xxv. 12. Forsoth it bihoveth a bischop for to be not wrathful, not vynolent, that is, moche 3ouun to wyn. (L. V. drunkelew, vinolentus.)-Id. Titus i. 7. VIOLOUS.

VIRAGO.

See VIOLATE.

Likest she seemed Pomona, when she fled
Vertumnus, or to Ceres in her prime,
Yet virgin of Proserpina to Jove.

Milton. Par. L. b. ix. v. 396.

VIRGULE. Fr. Virgule. A little rod, yard, streak; and thence also, a comma. Cotgrave. Lat. Virga, from virere, to grow.

In the MSS. of Chaucer, the line is always broken by a casura in the middle, which is pointed by a virgule. Hallam. Literature of Europe, v. i. p. 593. VIRON, i. e. Environ, qv. We han redde in old stories sum men to han vyrounde prouynces. (L. V. go aboute.)—Wic. Pref. Ep. p. 61. VIRTUE, s. It is worthy of remark that the adj. Virtuous, and the other sub-derivatives are all of modern formation. The Latin has none of them. Whereas those from the noun Vitium abound in that language. The verb to vitiate, is in common use, but not so-to virtuate. Johnson produces one instance from Harvey, and denounces it-not used. In this Dictionary there is one from Sandys, the learned translator of Ovid. Dr. Chalmers coins the verb to virtuefy. (See below.)

In Milton, the spirits both of Heaven and Hell are addressed by the appellation of virtues, i. e. powers. And see the Quotations from Wiclif, who uses virtues, from the Lat. Virtutes, where the modern version has "mighty works," from the Gr. δυνάμεις.

And he (Alexander the Great) gadride vertu (virtutem) and ful stronge oost, and the herte of hym is enhaunsid and lift up.-Wic. 1 Mac. i. 4.

And Symont putte Joon his sone Duyk of all vertues (that is werriouris; mar. note, virtutum).-Id. Ib. xiii. 54. As Plato said elegantly (in Menone) "That Virtue, if she could be seen, would move great love and affection;" so-seeing that she cannot be shewed to the sense by corporal shape, the next degree is, to shew her to the imagination in lively representation.

Bacon. Advancement of Learning, b. ii.

It is this which virtuefies emotion, even though there be nothing virtuous, which is not voluntary.-Chalmers. On the Constitution of Man, pt. ii. c. 2. On the Connection between the Intellect and Will.

Thus to return upon our adversaries is a healing way of revenge; and to do good for evil a soft and melting uition, a method taught from heaven to keep all smooth on earth. Browne. Christian Morals, pt. iii. § xii.

ULTRAGE. See OUTRAGE. ULTRONEOUS, adj. Lat. Ultroneus, from Ultro, to a distance, forward, voluntarily. Key.

We have heard the epithet God-like annexed even to human virtue, in its best and loftiest exhibitions; and it must be confessed, that this is the highest of all possible designations. But God is not under the force or authority of any law, that is exoteric to himself. He stands at no bar of jurisprudence; and, save from the ultroneous repugnance to evil of his own native sanctity, there is no obligation upon him for the moralities of that supreme righteousness which marks all the doings and dispensations of heaven's Sovereign.

Chalmers, c. x.

ULULATE.

General Questions of Moral Science.

The people now with saddest ululation flew.
Coleridge. Poetical Works, v. ii. p. 68, Mahomet.
UMBRAGE.

Wylt thou, that umbre (L. V. schadewe) steyge up tenn lynys, or that it be turned ageyn as fele grees (many degrees)?- Wic. 4 Kings xx. 9.

Whiche lytil volume I haue emprysed ten, prynte under the umbre and shadowe of the noble proteccion of our moost dradde souerayn (Ed. 4).

The Boke of Tulle of Old Age. Carton, n. 81.

If when we are secure from witnesses and accusers, and not obnoxious to the notices of the law, we think ourselves

obliged by conscience and practice, and live accordingly:

then our services and intentions in vertue are right; then we are past the twilights of conversion, and the umbrages of the world, and walk in the light of God, of his word, and of his Spirit.-J. Taylor. Sermons, v. ii. ser. xv. p. 143. Without any accident that could give the least umbrage or suspicion of approaching danger.

Evelyn. Life of Mrs. Godolphin, p. 143. The handling of final causes in physiques hath intercepted and banisht the inquiry of physical causes, and hath given men occasion to rest satisfied in such specious and umbratilous causes; and not thorowly to urge and presse the inquiry of reall and truly physical causes.

Wats. Bacon. Advancement of Learning, b. iii. e. 4. UMBYRAP. Circumdare, to lap round; is a var. r. of enviroun. Heb. v. 2.

UM-GONG. A. S. Ymbe-zan, circuire. Wiclif, in v. Grave.

See

UNB

And while thei stryuen thus, the apostil putte him bitwene as a mene, distruynge alle her questiouns as a good noumpere.- Wic. Prol. to Romans, p. 302.

What (qd. she, i. e. Love) most of all did I not make a loueday betweene God and mankinde, and chese a maid to be nompere to put the quarell at ende?

Chaucer. Test. of Loue, b. i.

UMTHOUGHTE, or UMTHOGHT.

He receyved Israel his childe, he is umthoght of his mercy (harynge mynde, recordatus. Wiclif).-Luke i. 54. Hampole in Lewis. Hist. of Trans. p. 32.

He toke Israel hys chylde, umthoughte of his mercy.
Id. Mr. Bennett.
UN-ABLE.

If for the blyndnesse of the preest, or for other unablete, he that is repentaunt wole go to another preest kunning in this ghostly office, he shal not do this withouten licence axid. Ecclesiæ Regimen, written, as it seems, before 1395. Wie. Ed. Pref. p. 27.

UN-ACQUIRED.

Virtue.

As to the unacquirableness of virtue, this somewhat resembles Whitfield's day of grace, which being not yet come, or being once past, no man can attain to righteousness. Tucker. Light of Nature, c. xviii. UN-ADJECTIVED. See To ADJECTIVE, in v. Adject, supra.

As the noun adjective always signifies all that the unadjectived noun signifies, and no more (except the circumstance of adjection), so must the verb adjective signify all that the unadjectived verb signifies, and no more (except the circumstance of adjection).

Tooke. Diversions of Purley, c. vii.

UN-AMENDED.

Ne that to the seuenty remenours, the whiche, ful of the Hooly Goost tho thinges that weren sothe translatiden, bot to the blame of wrijters it is to wijten, while of the namendid thei wrijten vnamendide thingis (sc. in the Names of the Books).- Wic. 2 Par. Prol. p. 385.

UNAVISELY. Į To blame unavisely (increUNAVISED. Spare). Wiclif, 1 Tim. v. 1, in

var. r.

Who forsothe is unauysid to speken, shal felen euelis. (L. V. vnwar, inconsideratus.)-Wic. Prov. xiii. 3.

UN-BEGUN. Having had no beginning.
The mighty God which unbegonne

Stonte of hym selfe.-Gower. Conf. Am. b. viii. fo. 1734.
UN-BELIEVEFULNESS.

And anon the fadir of the child criynge with teeris seide, Lord. I beleve, help thou myn vnbilievefulness. (L, V. vnbileue, incredulitatem.)- Wic. Mark ix. 23.

UN-BIAS, v.

The truest service a private man may do his country, is by unbiassing his mind as much as possible between the rival powers.-Swift (in Todd).

He claims the liberty of reserving his own judgement, and more especially-where in the close of his tract his unbiassedness is clearly professed.

Pref. to Bp. Hall's Rem. (1660), sign. b. ii. (in Todd). UN-BIDE. A. S. On-bid-an, manere.

Of which (fruit) the tast and the sauour, is endles blisse to onbide.-Chaucer. Test. of Loue, b. iii.

UN-BOWING.

UNC

We (hauing) spreynt the hertis fro yuel conscience, and waischyn the body with clene watir, hold the confessioun of oure vnbowynge, or that may not be foldyn (indeclinabilem).- Wic. Heb. x. 23.

UN-BOY, v. To raise above boyhood.

He (Charles I.) began to say, It was time to unboy the prince (Charles II.), by putting him into some action and acquaintance with business, apart from himself. Clarendon. Hist. of Rebellion, v. ii. p. 559.

UN-BUXOME.

Whether and wee unbuzhum (inobedientes) shul don al this grete evel, that we trespassen in the Lord oure God, and wedden straunge wiues.-Wic. 2 Esd. xiii. 27.

That we be distrying yuele thouștis, and alle hitnesse enhaunsynge him silf asen the kunnynge of God, and holdynge lowe al undirstondyng to obeie to Crist, and redy to underjoke al unbuxunnesse (unbuxomeness). Id. Pref. Ep. p. 63.

UN-CAREFUL.

The Bill (Triennial Act) passed in a time very uncareful for the dignity of the crown or the security of the people. Charles II. to the Parliament, March, 1664. Campbell, v. ii. p. 220.

UN-CAUPONATED. See To CAUPONIZE. When great Eliza reign'd, When our brave sires Drank valour from uncauponated beer. Smart. The Hop Garden. UNCE, i. e. OUNCE. See UNCIAL. Whose yren of the speere peiside thre hundrid unncis (uncia).- Wic. 2 Kings xxi. 16.

For charité without challangynge
Unchargeth the soule.
Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 10315.
UN-CHASTISED, UNCHASTISABLE.

An hors vntemyd, ether vnchastisid (indomitus), schal ascape hard, and a son vnchastisid (remissus) schal ascape heedi. (E. V. stumbling doun, præceps.) Wic. Ecclus. xxx. 8. And the sones ben of hard face, and of herte vnchaastisable, that wole not ben maad tame or meek (indomitabili),

to whom I sende thee.-Id. Ez. ii. 4.

UNCLE. In Jer. xxxii. 7, 8, 9, 12, A various reading is, unclene son.

I schal synge for my derlyng the song of myn vnclis sone of the vynes. (L. V. emes, patruelis.)- Wic. Is. v. 1.

UN-CLOTHE.

Daniel seide, Sire Kyng,
Thi dremels bitokneth

That uncouthe knyghtes shul come
Thi kyngdom to cleyme.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 11805.

And, ore al this, so wel coulde he devise,
Of sentiment; and in so uncouthe wise,
Al his array: that every lover thought-
That al was well what so he said or wrought.
Chaucer. Troylus and Cressida, b. iii. v. 1797.

She (Idelnesse) had a lustie life in Maie;
She had no thought, by night ne daie,

Of nothing but it were onely

To graceth (dress) her well, and uncouthly.

Id. Rom. of the Rose, v. 584.

UN-CREDIBLE. Wic. Judg. xx. 5, a var. r. of untrowable (incredibili), qv.

UNCTION.

But je han vnccioun (L. V. anointyng, unctionem) of the Hooli Goost; and han knowe alle thinges.

Wic. 1 John ii. 20. UN-CULPABLE. In Wiclif, Uncoupable. Thanne je schulen be rncoupable anentis God. (L. V. giltless, inculpabiles.)- Wic. Num. xxxii. 22.

UN-CURABLE.

Gal of dragouns (is) the wyne of hem and venym of eddres uncurable. (L. V. that may not be heelid, insanabile.)- Wic. Deut. xxxii. 33.

UN-CUSTOMED, i. e. Un-accustomed.
That the steeds might pass with ease,
Nor start as yet uncustom'd to the dead.

Cowper. Iliad, b. x. v. 583; and also Odyssey,
b. viii. v. 553.

UN-DEAD.

For God made man vndeadli (L. V. vnable to be distried; mar. note, undistriable, inexterminabilem), and to the image of his licnesse made hym.- Wic. Wis. ii. 23.

of the soules, but I holde trustely that the soules of men It nedith not also that I speke euer of the undedlynesse be undedly.-The Boke of Tulle of Old Age, h. 5'.

UN-DEFOULED. UN-DEFOULYNGNESSE. Wic. 1 Pet. iii. 4 (incorruptibilitate), a var. r. of vncorruptibility, qv.

For it besemyde that sich a man were a bishop to vs hooli, innocent, vndefoulid. (E. V. inpolute; var. r. vn

UN-COMELY.

It is an uncomly couple, To yeven a yong wenche

Bacon. Essay on Death.

To an old feble.-Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 5499.
UN-COMMUNICABLE.

And this was disceyuyng of manny's lif; for to afeccioun or to kingus men deseruyng, the uncommunicable name (affectui) to stones and trees thei putten. (L. V. name that mai not be comyned, incommunicabile, i, e. of God.) Wic. Wis. xiv. 21.

UN-CONNING.

An unconnyng and unprofitable manne.
Chaucer. Boecius, b. i. pr.

UN-CONSTANT.

In this place they (yea, yea, &c.) are taken for unconstantness of mynde.-Bible, 1549. 2 Cor. c. i. n.

UN-CONTAMINATE.

The pure and uncontaminate blood Holds its due course, nor fears the frost of Age. Cowper. Task, b. vi. v. 789. UN-CORRUPTION.

UN-CORRUPTIBILITY. But (let it be) the ilke that is the hid man of herte in vncorruptibilite of quyete or pesible (L. V. vncorruption, incorruptibilitate) and mylde spirit, the which is riche in the sit of God.-Wic. 1 Pet. iii. 4.

UN-COVENABLE.

Where heryng is not, schede thou not out a word; and nyle thou be enhannsid uncovenabli (importune) in thi

wisdom.- Wic. Ecclus. xxxii. 6. 113

UN-DEPARTABLE.