unconditioned 
This step from conditioned to unconditioned [existence] 
implies a pure a priori synthesis. 
E. Caird, Philos. of Kant, p. 523. 
The unconditioned, in the philosophy of Sir \V. Hamil- 
ton, either the Absolute, or unconditionally complete, or 
the Infinite, or unconditionally unlimited. 
unconducingt (un-kpn-du'sing), a. Not con- 
ducive. . Phillips. (Imp. Diet.) 
unconfidencet (un-kpn'fi-dens), n. Want of 
confidence; uncertainty; Hesitation; doubt. 
Bp. Hucket. [Bare.] 
unconfinable (un-kon-fi'na-bl), a. If. Un- 
bounded. Slutk., M'.' W. of W., ii. 2. 21. 2. 
Incapable of being confined or restrained. 
unconfined (un-kpn-find'), a. 1. Not confined; 
free from restraint ; free from control. Steele, 
Spectator, No. 2. 2. Not having narrow lim- 
its; not narrow; comprehensive; broad. Pope, 
Essay on Criticism, iii. 639. 
unconfinedly (un-kon-fi'ned-li), adv. With- 
out confinement or limitation. Barrow. 
unconfirmed (un-kpn-fermd'), n. 1. Not firmly 
established ; not possessed of its full measure 
of strength or stability: as, his health was still 
unconfirmed. 
With strength unpractis'd yet and unconftrm'd. 
Rowe, Ulysses, iv. 1. 
2. Not fortified by resolution ; weak; raw. 
In the unconfirmed troops much fear did breed. 
Daniel, Civil Wars, iv. 
3. Not confirmed or strengthened by addi- 
tional testimony. 
His witness unconfinn'd. Milton, P. R., i. 29. 
4. Eccles.'. (a) Not having received the sacra- 
ment or sacramental rite of confirmation. (6) 
Not having his election as bishop ratified by 
the archbishop. 
Hys dysgraded abbottes and unconfirmed prelates. 
Bp. Bale, English Votaries, ii. 
unconformt (un-kpn-f6rm'), a. Unlike; dis- 
similar; not analogous. 
Not unconform to other shining globes. 
Miltun, P. L., v. 259. 
unconformability (un-kpn-for-ma-bil'j-ti), n. 
The condition of not being conformable : as, 
the unconformability of two groups of rocks. 
See conformable 5 , with diagram illustrating the 
relative position of conformable and uncon- 
formable rocks, 
unconformable (un-kpn-for'ma-bl), . 1. Not 
consistent ; not agreeable ; not conforming. 
Moral evil is an action unconformable to the rule of our 
duty. Watts, Logick. 
2. In geol., not conforming in position, or not 
having the same dip, with another bed or se- 
ries of beds. If certain strata, having been originally 
deposited in a nearly horizontal position, are afterward 
disturbed, elevated, or turned up on edge, beds which are 
deposited in the same region after this disturbance of 
preexisting strata has taken place will not have the same 
dip as those of prior formation, and the two sets will be 
described as being unco>\formable with each other. 
unconformableness (un-kon-for'ma-bl-nes), n. 
The character or state of being unconformable. 
unconformably (un-kpn-for'ma-bli), adv. In 
an unconformable manner ; so as not to be con- 
formable. See unconformable, 2. 
unconformistt (un-ktm-for'mist), n. A non- 
conformist. Fuller. 
unconformity (un-kpn-for'mi-ti), n. Non-con- 
formity ; incongruity ; inconsistency ; want of 
conformity. [Rare.] 
The moral goodness or evil of men's actions . . . con- 
sists in their conformity or unconformity to right reason. 
South, Sermons. 
unconfoundt (un-kon-found'), v. t. To reduce 
from confusion to order. Milton, Tenure of 
Kings. 
unconfused (un-kon-fuzd'), a. 1. Free from 
confusion or disorder. Locke, Human Under- 
standing, ii. 2. 2. Not confused or embar- 
rassed. 
uncongeal (un-kon-jel'), . . [< wt- a + con- 
geal.'} To thaw;"melt. [Rare.] 
Soften'd airs that blowing steal, 
When meres begin to uncongeal. 
Tennyson, The Two Voices. 
uncongenial (un-kon-je'nial), a. Not congenial, 
unconjunctive (un-kpn-jiingk'tiv), a. That 
cannot be joined. [Rare.] 
Two persons unconjunctive and unmarriable together. 
Muton, Divorce, i. 15. 
unconnected (un-kp-nek'ted), a. 1. Not con- 
nected ; not united ; separate. 
The two unconnected facts. J. Morley, Burke, p. 38. 
2. Without connections or relations; specifi- 
cally, without family, friends, or special obli- 
gations. 
6590 
If I had been an unconnected man, 
I, from this moment, should have formed some plan 
Never to leave sweet Venice. 
Shelley, Julian and Maddalo. 
3. Not coherent; not connected by proper 
transitions or dependence of parts; loose; 
vague; rambling; desultory: as, an unconnect- 
ed discourse. 
unconningt, . and a. See uncunning. 
unconningnesst, See uncunningness. 
unconquerable (un-kong'ker-a-bl), a. 1. Not 
conquerable; incapable of being vanquished 
or defeated; not to be overcome in contest: as, 
an unconquerable foe. 
Achilles, her unconquerable son. Cowper, Iliad, viii. 
2. Incapable of being subdued and brought 
under control: as, unconquerable passions or 
temper. 
The unconquerable will. MUton, f. L., i. 106. 
= Syn. 1. Invincible, indomitable. See conquer. 
unconquerableness (un-kong'ker-a-bl-nes), n. 
The character or state of being unconquer- 
able. 
unconquerably (un-kong'ker-a-bli), adv. In- 
vincibly; insuperably. 
unconqiiered (un-kong'kerd), a. 1. Not van- 
quished or defeated ; unsubdued; not brought 
under control. 2f. Invincible ; insuperable. 
Sir P. Sidney. 
unconscionable (un-kon'shpn-a-bl), a. 1. 
Not conseionable ; unreasonable; exceeding 
the limits of any reasonable claim or expec- 
tation; inordinate; enormous: as, an uncon- 
scionable demand. 
His giantship is gone somewhat crestfallen, 
Stalking with less unconscionable strides. 
Milton, S. A., 1. 1246. 
And why you should, for a Respect so contrarie, 
Call my poor wit in question to believe you, 
Is most unconscionable. Brome, Northern Lass, i. 7. 
A man may oppose an unconscionable request for an un- 
justifiable reason. Sir R. L'Estranye. 
2. Not guided or influenced by conscience. 
No man [is] to be forc'd by the compulsive laws of men 
to present his body a dead sacrifice, and so under the 
gospel most unholy and unacceptable, because it is his un- 
reasonable service, that is to say, not only unwilling but 
unconscionable. Milton, Civil Power. 
Your friend is an unconscionable dog : but you can't 
help that. Sheridan, School for Scandal, iii. 1. 
Unconscionable bargain, in law, a contract so obvious- 
ly unfair that it is inequitable to enforce it ; a contract 
which no rational man would make and no honest man 
would accept. 
unconscionableness (un-kon'shon-a-bl-nes), o. 
The character of being unconscionable, in any 
sense. Bp. Hall. 
unconscionably (un-kon'shon-a-bli), adv. Un- 
reasonably; iua manner or degree that con- 
science and reason do not justify ; inordinately. 
Too absurd and too unconscionably gross is that fond 
invention that wafted hither the fifty daughters of a 
strange Dioclesian King of Syria. Milton, Hist. Eng., i. 
unconscious (un-kon'shus), a. 1. Not con- 
scious, (a) Not occurring in or attended by conscious- 
ness ; subconscious : as, unconscious inference. 
Sleep, fainting, coma, epilepsy, and other unconscious 
conditions are apt to break in upon and occupy large du- 
rations of what we nevertheless consider the mental his- 
tory of a single man. 
W. James, Piin. of Psychology, I. 199. 
The only conception we can form of a purely unconscious 
state is one in which all is exactly alike, or rather in 
which there is no difference. 
W. K. Clifford, Conditions of Mental Development. 
(6) Not conscious to one's self ; not self-conscious ; not 
knowing ; not perceiving ; unaware ; hence, regardless ; 
heedless : as, unconscious of guilt or error. 
A stately mule, as yet by toils nnbroke. 
Of six years' age, unconscious of the yoke. 
Pope, Iliad, xxiii. 756. 
Strong poets of a more unconscious day, 
When Nature spake nor sought nice reasons why. 
Lowell, Agassiz, i. 4. 
(c) Not known or perceived as existing in one's self; not 
felt : as, unconscious generosity. 
The red rose veils a heart of flame, 
And blushes with unconscious shame. 
Rose Terry Coote. 
2. Not possessing consciousness; non-con- 
scious. 
Passive, unconscious substances. 
Paley, Nat. Theol., iv. 
unconsciously (un-kon'shus-li), adv. In an 
unconscious manner ; without consciousness. 
A religious man, in proportion as obedience becomes 
more and more easy to him, will doubtless do his duty 
unconsciously. J. H. ffemnan, Parochial Sermons, i. 73. 
unconsciousness (un-kon'shus-nes), H. The 
state of being unconscious, in any sense ; ab- 
sence of consciousness or of self-conscious- 
ness. 
unconsummate 
unconsecratet (un-kon'se-krat), r. t. To de- 
prive of sacred character; desecrate. 
The sin of Israel had even unconsecmted and profaned 
that sacred edifice. South, Sermons. 
unconsecratet (un-kon'se-krat), a. Not con- 
secrated ; unconsecrated. 
She was houseletl in sight of the people with an host 
unconsecrate. Sir T. More, Works, p. 134. 
unconsecrated (un-kon'se-kra-ted), a. Not 
consecrated: as, a temple unconsecrated; uncon- 
secrated bread. Milton, Church-Government, ii. 
unconsenting (un-kpn-sen'ting), a. Not con- 
senting; not yielding consent. 
unconsideratet (un-kpn-sid'er-at), a. Incon- 
siderate. Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, ii. 
unconsideratenesst (un-kon-sid'er-at-nes), n. 
Inconsiderateness. Hales, Sermons, Matt. xxvi. 
75. 
unconsidered (un-kpn-sid'erd), a. Not consid- 
ered or regarded; not attended to; not es- 
teemed. 
A suapper-up of unconsidered trifles. 
Shale., W. T., iv. 3. 26. 
unconsidering(un-kpn-sid'er-ing),rt. Not con- 
sidering; void of consideration; regardless. 
Swift. 
unconspiringnesst (un-kon-spir'ing-nes), n. 
Absence of plotting or conspiracy. 
A harmony whose dissonance serves but to manifest the 
sincerity and unconspirinyness of the writers. 
Boyle, Works, II. 276. 
unconstancyKun-kon' stan-si), . Inconstancy. 
Fuller, Worthies, Huntingdonshire. 
unconstantt (un-kon'stant), a. Inconstant. 
Sliak., R. and J., i. 4. 100.' 
unconstantlyt (un-kon'stant-li), adi'. Incon- 
stantly. Hobbes, Human Nature, v. 
unconstitutional (un-kon-sti-tu'shpn-al), a. 
Not in conformity with the constitution of a 
country ; not authorized by the constitution ; 
contrary to the principles of the constitution ; 
inconsistent with the constitution or organic 
law. In the law of the United States a statute which is 
unconstitutional is thereby in excess of legislative author- 
ity, and void. In English law the word is applied (1) 
to " acts at variance with the recognized spirit of the con- 
stitution or principles of government, or with the pres- 
ervation of the liberties of the people, as expressed or im- 
plied in the various charters, etc., though not illegal in the 
sense of being forbidden by express statute " (Yonge); (2) 
to acts which threaten the integrity of the constitution 
or government. 
By unconstitutional, as distinguished from "illegal," I 
mean a novelty of much importance, tending to endan- 
ger the established laws. Hallam, 
The dangerous and unconstitutional practice of remov- 
ing military officers for their votes in parliament. 
Burke, Account of a late Administration (1706). 
There has not been for many years a single important 
measure which has not been unconstitutional with its op- 
ponents, and which its supporters have not maintained to 
be agreeable to the true spirit of the constitution. 
Macaulay, West. Rev. Def. of Mill. 
unconstitutionality (un-kon-sti-tu-shpn-al'i- 
ti), n. The character of being unconstitutional. 
His [Jefferson's] election caused the repeal, in effect, of 
the alien and sedition laws, and a permanent acquies- 
cence in their unconstitutionality. Calhoun, Works, i. 359. 
Unconstitutionally (un-kon-sti-tu'shpn-al-i), 
adv. In an unconstitutional manner ; in oppo- 
sition to the constitution. 
unconstrained (un-kpn-strand'), a. 1. Free 
from constraint; free to act; not acting or 
done under compulsion ; voluntary. 
God delights not to make a drudge of virtue, whose ac- 
tions must be all elective and unconstrained. 
Milton, Divorce, ii. 20. 
2. Not constrained or embarrassed ; not men- 
tally constrained. 
A natural and unconstrained behaviour has something 
in it so agreeable that it is no wonder to see people en- 
deavouring after it. Addison, Fashions from France. 
Maggie's manner this morning had been as uncon- 
strained and indifferent as ever. 
Qeorge Eliot, Mill on the Floss, v. 4. 
uneonstrainedly (un-kpn-stra'ned-li), adv. In 
an unconstrained manner, in either sense. 
Hooker, Works, II. 49. 
Unconstraint (un-kpn-stranf), Freedom 
from constraint ; ease. FeJton,OntheClassicks. 
The thoughts, wived with words above their own level, 
are always on their good behavior, and we feel that they 
would have been happier in the homelier unconstraint of 
prose. Loicell, New Princeton Rev., I. 154. 
unconsulting (un-kpn-sul'ting), o. Taking no 
advice; rash; imprudent. [Rare.] 
It was the fair Zelmane . . . whom unconsulting affec- 
tion . . . had made borrow so much of her natural mod- 
esty as to leave her more decent raiments. 
Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, ii. 
unconsuminatet (un-kon-sum'at), a. Not con- 
summated. Dryttcu, jEneid, x. 
