uncouthly 
A labyrinth of peaks and columns, clefts and ravines, 
now strangely monumental now imeoutUy irregular. 
Oeihie, Oeol. Sketches, ii. 9. 
uncouthness (un-kb'th'nes), . 1. The state or 
character of being uncouth ; strangeness ; odd- 
ness : as, the uncouthness of a word or of dress. 
Dr. H. More. 2. Something that is uncouth 
or odd. [Rare.] 
The few uncouthnesses of which Mendoza and Boscan 
more especially are guilty (such as certain faults of 
rhythmic accentuation). Encyc. Brit., XXII. 357. 
uncouthsomet (un-koth'sum), a. [< uncouth + 
-some."] Unusual; awkward. 
Here a huge tempest of wind surprized us. ... This 
uncmithsom weather being spent, we had again the use of 
very favourable gales, until we came unto the Tropick of 
Cancer. Bueaniers of America (tr., 1684), p. 6. 
uncovenablet (un-kuv'e-na-bl), a. [ME., also 
niiconable, iincttnable; ( un-1 + corenable.] 1. 
Unsuitable ; unbecoming. 
I sey nat that honestitee in clothing of man or womman 
Is uncovenaMe. Chaucer, Parson's Tale. 
2. Uncivil; churlish; rude; savage. 
The nature of som man is ... overthrowenge to yvel 
and . . . uncovenable [tr. L. importunus}. 
Chaucer, Boethius, iv. prose 6. 
uncovenanted (un-kuv'e-nan-ted), a. 1. Not 
promised by covenant ; not resting on a cove- 
nant or promise. 2. Not bound by a covenant, 
contract, or agreement ; not having joined in a 
covenant, compact, league, or the like ; specifi- 
cally, not subscribing to the Scottish Solemn 
League and Covenant. 
In Scotland a few fanatical non-jurors may have grudged 
their allegiance to an uncovenanted king. 
Sir E. May, Const. Hist Eng., i. 
Uncovenanted civil service. See civU,. Uncove- 
nanted mercies, such mercies as God may be pleased to 
show to those not embraced within the covenant, as, for 
example, those who have never heard of Christ, and there- 
fore have never consciously accepted him as a Saviour. 
uncover (un-kuv'er), . [< ME. uncoveren, tin- 
keveren; < ww- 2 + coj'er 1 .] I. trans. 1. To re- 
move a cover or covering from ; divest of a 
cover or covering, such as a hat, a veil, cloth- 
ing, a roof, or the like. 
Rather let my head 
. . . dance upon a bloody pole 
Than stand uncover'd to the vulgar groom. 
Shale., 2 Hen. VI., iv. 1. 128. 
None of the Eastern people use the compliment of un- 
covering their heads when they meet as we do. 
Dampier, Voyages, an. 1688. 
Hence 2. To lay bare; disclose; lay open to 
view. 
In vain thou striv'st to cover shame with shame, 
Or by evasions thy crime uncover'st more. 
MUtm, S. A., 1. 842. 
3. Milit., in the deployment of troops, to ex- 
pose (the successive lines of formation) by the 
wheeling to right or left of the lines in front. 
When troops deploy, the different leading companies 
or divisions, etc., successively uncover those in their rear, 
by marching out from the right or left of the column. 
Farrow, Mil. Encyc., III. 626. 
II. intrans. To remove the cover or covering 
of something, as the head; specifically, to take 
off one's hat or other head-covering. 
Uncover, dogs, and lap. Shak., T. of A., iii. 6. 95. 
We are forced to uncover after them, Addison. 
uncovered (un-kuv'erd), a. 1. Not provided 
with a cover or covering; having no covering; 
bare ; naked ; especially, having no covering on 
the head. 1 Cor. xi. 13. 
Thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with thy 
uncovered body this extremity of the skies. 
Shak., Lear, iii. 4. 106. 
2. Not included, embraced, or comprehended, 
uncowl (un-koul'), v. t. 1. To deprive of a cowl, 
as a monk that is, to unmonk, by the figura- 
tive taking from him of his monk's cowl. 2. 
To uncover by removing or throwing back the 
cowl, or, by extension, any muffler or veil. 
Men bearded, bald, cowled, uncowled, shod, unshod. 
Pope, Dunciad, iii. 
I pray you think us friends uncowl your face. 
Coleridge. 
uncreate (un-kre-af), v. t. [< un-% + create.] 
To annihilate ; deprive of existence. 
That I could uncreate 
Myself, or be forgotten. 
Shirley, The Wedding, i. 4. 
uncreate (un-kre-af), a. [< -i + create.] 
Uncreated. Athanasian Creed. 
uncreated (un-kre-a'ted), a. 1. Not yet cre- 
ated. 
Misery, uncreated till the crime 
Of thy rebellion. Milton, t. L., vi. 268. 
God must have left them [angels and men) uncreated if 
not endued with liberty of mind. Hooker, Works, II. 432. 
6592 
2. Not produced by creation ; existing without 
being created. 
There is one particular and peculiar spirit, who is truly 
and properly a person, of a true, real, and personal sub- 
sistence, not a created, but uncreated, person, and so the 
true and one Eternal God. 
Bp. Pearson, Expos, of Creed, p. 477. 
uncreatedness (un-kre-a'ted-nes), n. The char- 
acter of being uncreated. Waterland, Works, 
ii. 326. 
uncrediblet (un-kred'i-bl), a. Incredible. 
Bacon, Advancement of Learning. 
uncreditt(un-kred'it),0. t. To discredit. Fuller. 
uncreditablet (un-kred'i-ta-bl), a. Discredit- 
able. J. Collier, Short View (ed. 1698), p. 7. 
uncreditablenesst (un-kred'i-ta-bl-nes), n. The 
character of being discreditable. Decay of 
Christ. Piety. 
uncritical (un-krit'i-kal), a. 1. Not critical; 
not able or disposed to criticize; wanting in 
acuteness of judgment or critical analysis. 
We are not so rude understanders or uncriticall speak- 
ers. Bp. Qauden, Tears of the Church, p. 24. 
Statements republished by careless sub-editors, and 
readily accepted by the uncritical who believe all they see 
in print, diffuse erroneous prepossessions. 
H. Spencer, Prin. of Sociol., p. 81. 
2. Not according to the rules of just criticism ; 
not intelligent from the critical point of view: 
as, an uncritical estimate. 
While, therefore, we would defend in its entire extent 
the general doctrine which Pestalozzi inaugurated, we 
think great evil likely to result from an uncritical recep- 
tion of his specific devices. H. Spencer, Education, p. 118. 
uncropped (un-kropf), a. 1. Not cropped or 
plucked. 
A fresh uncropped flower. Shale., All's Well, v. 3. 327. 
2. Not cropped or cut, as the ears of a dog. 
uncross (un-kros'), v. t. [< ttn-2 + cross 1 ."] To 
change from a crossed position. 
Mr. Snell uncrossed his legs, and stooped. 
The Century, XXVI. 623. 
uncrossed (un-kr6sf), a. 1. Not crossed; not 
canceled. 
Such gain the cap of him that makes 'em fine, 
Yet keeps his book tincrost'd. 
Shale., Cymbeline, iii. 3. 26. 
2. Not limited as regards cashability or ne- 
gotiability by crossing: as, an uncrossed check. 
See crossed check, under checkl, n. 3. Not 
thwarted; not opposed. 
Uncrown (un-kroun'), v.t. [<-'* + crown.] 1. 
To deprive of a crown ; degrade from the royal 
dignity ; by extension, to reduce from high dig- 
nity or preeminence. 
111 uncrown him ere 't be long. 
Shall., 3 Hen. VL, iii. 3. 232. 
Prepare a welcome to uncrown the greatness 
Of his prevailing fates. Ford, Lady's Trial, ii. 4. 
2. To remove the crown from. 
Uncrown his head. Dryden, MneiA, xii. 448. 
uncrowned (un-kround'), a. 1. Not wearing a 
crown; not having assumed the crown, as a 
sovereign prince who has not yet received coro- 
nation. Hence 2. Havingro- 
er without occupying the royal office. 
unction (ungk'shon), n. [< ME. 'unction, unx- 
ioun, < OF. unction, auction, F. onction = Pr. 
unctio, onccio = Sp. uneion = Pg. unqdto, uncgHo 
= It. unzione, < L. unctio(n-), a besmearing, 
anointing, < ungere, unguere, pp. unctus, smear, 
anoint: see unguent, oint.] 1. The act of 
anointing, smearing, or rubbing with an un- 
guent, ointment, or oil. 
It [the weft] glides easily along the metallic warps, re- 
quiring no unction, as is sometimes the case. 
Ure, Diet, IV. 966. 
Especially (o) Anointing as a symbol of consecration, 
dedication, or appointment to an important office. The 
practice of unction in religious ceremonials existed in the 
Christian church at a very early day, as well as in the Jew- 
ish church, and has been continued to the present time in 
the Roman Catholic, Greek, and some other churches. In 
Christian usage it includes the unction of catechumens 
both before and after baptism, of candidates at confirma- 
tion, of the clergy at ordination, of the sick, of kings at 
their coronation, and of various articles dedicated to a 
sacred use. The practice is not continued in Protestant 
churches. See chrism, and holy oil (under oil). 
Thei make but on Unxioun, whan thei Cristene Children. 
MandeviUe, Travels, p. 19. 
The Divine unction of thy Holy Spirit. 
Thomas d Kempis, Imit. of Christ (trans. X iii. 19. 
Something . . . should dishonour and profane in him- 
self that priestly unction and clergy-right whereto Christ 
hath entitled him. Milton, Church-Government, ii. 3. 
(6) Anointing for medical purposes. 
Applying only a warm napkin to the place, after the unc- 
tion and fricace. B. Jonson, Volpone, ii. 2. 
He paid great attention to the health of body and mind, 
using unction and the bath often. Alcott, Tablets, p. 115. 
unculled 
2. That which is used for anointing; an un- 
guent ; an ointment ; a salve. 
With this plaster 
And this unction do I master 
All the f ester'd ill that may 
Give him grief another day. 
Fletcher, Faithful Shepherdess, iv. 2. 
Hence 3. Anything that is soothing or leni- 
tive. 
Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, 
That not your trespass, but my madness speaks. 
Shak., Hamlet, iii. 4. 145. 
4. In speech, that quality in the words used, 
tone of expression, or mode of address which 
excites devotion, fervor, tenderness, sympathy, 
and the like in the hearer; especially, those 
qualities which induce religious fervor and ten- 
derness. 
Its diction [the Bible's], . . . when temperately and 
soberly used, imparts an unction to a religious discourse 
which nothing else can supply. 
R. Hall, Review of Foster's Essays. 
5. Emotional warmth ; gush ; specifically, sim- 
ulated fervor, devotion, or sympathy ; counter- 
feited sentiment ; nauseous sentimentality. 
The delightful equivoque and unction of the passage in 
Farquhar. HazlM. 
Luring us by stories old, 
With a comic unction told. 
Whittier, To my old Schoolmaster. 
Unction Of the Sick, a sacrament or rite in which sick 
persons are anointed with oil. In the Greek Church it is 
administered to sick persons whether in danger of death 
or not (See euchelaion.) In the Roman Catholic Church 
it is administered only to the former class, and is known, 
since the twelfth century, as extreme or last- unction. In 
this church the body of the sick person is anointed by a 
priest with consecrated olive-oil, in the figure of a cross, 
on the eyes, ears, nostrils, mouth, the palms of the hands, 
and the soles of the feet. The oil must be consecrated 
by a bishop, except in cases of extreme necessity, when a 
priest may receive especial power from the Pope to con- 
secrate it. 
unctioust (ungk'shus), a. An obsolete variant 
of unctuous. B. Jonson, Every Man out of his 
Humour, iv. 4. 
unctiousnesst (ungk'shus-nes), n. An obsolete 
variant of unctuousness. 
As if the sappe thereof had a nre-feeding unctiousness 
therein. Fuller, Worthies, Warwickshire. 
unctuosity (ungk-tu-os'i-ti), n. [< F. onctuosite 
= Sp. untuosidad = Pg. unctuosidade = It. un- 
tuosita, (. ML. *unctuosita(t-)s, < ML. unctuosus, 
unctuous : see unctuous.] Unctuousness. Rev. 
T. Adams, Works, I. 17. 
unctuous (ungk'tu-us), a. [< F. onctueux = 
Sp. untuoso = Pg. unctuoso = It. untuoso, < ML. 
unctwosus, greasy, oily, < L. unctus, a smearing, 
anointing, ML. also ointment, < ungere, unguere, 
?p. unctus, smear, anoint: see unction, unguent.] 
. Of the nature of or resembling an unguent 
or ointment; greasy; oily; fat; soapy. 
Ingrateful man, with liquorish draughts 
And morsels unctuous, greases his pure mind. 
Shak., T. of A., iv. 3. 196. 
2. Having a greasy, oily, or soapy feel when 
rubbed or touched by the fingers a charac- 
teristic of steatite, talc, serpentine, and other 
magnesian minerals, due to the magnesia 
which they contain. 3. Having or character- 
ized by unction; tending to religious fervor; 
especially, falsely or affectedly fervid, devo- 
tional, emotional, gushing, or the like ; exces- 
sively bland or suave. 
A Quaker could not be drawn without being caricatured 
into an unctuous rogue. 
J. Ashton, Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, II. 138. 
He at first knit his brows ; then smiled with more unc- 
tuous benignity than ever. Hawthorne, Seven Gables, viii. 
Unctuous sucker. See sucker, 1 (d) (3). 
unctuously (ungk'tu-us-li), adv. In an unctu- 
ous manner ; with unctuousness. 
Unctuousness (ungk'tu-us-nes), . The state 
of being unctuous, in any sense. 
uncturet (ungk'|ur), . [ME. tincture, < L. unc- 
tura, an anointing, < ungere, unguere, pp. unc- 
tus, anoint: see unction, unguent.] An unguent. 
For sheep ishorne make uncture of lupyne. 
Palladitis, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 163. 
uncuckoldedt (un-kuk'ol-ded), a. Not made 
a cuckold. 
It is a deadly sorrow to behold a foul knave unmckolded. 
Shak., A. and C., i. 2. 76. 
uncular (ung'ku-lar), a. [< uncle, after III-HII- 
rular.] Of or pertaining to an uncle; avuncu- 
lar. [Humorous.] 
The grave Don owned the soft impeachment, relented 
at once, and clasped the young gentleman in the Welling- 
ton trousers to his uncular and rather angular breast. 
De Quinceit, Spanish Nun, vi. (Dames.) 
unculled (un-kuld'). . 1. Not gathered. 2. 
Not separated; not selected. 
