undeify 
undeify (un-de'i-fi), r. t.; pret. and pp. undei- 
rtc/l, ppr. undeifying. [< - 2 + deify.'] To re- 
duce from the state of deity; deprive of the char- 
acter or qualities of a god ; deprive of the honor 
due to a god. Addison, Spectator, No. 73. 
undelectable (un-de-lek'ta-bl), a. Not delect- 
able or pleasant. Sterne, Tristram Shandy, iii. 
209. 
undelegated (un-del'e-ga-ted), a. Not dele- 
gated; not deputed; not granted. 
Your assumption of undelcgated power. 
Burke, Rev. in France. 
undeliberate (un-de-lib'e-rat),. Not deliber- 
ate. Lowell, Agassi'z, iii."l. 
undelighted (un-de-li'ted), a. Not delighted; 
not well pleased. 
The fiend 
Saw, undeliyhted, all delight. 
Milton, P. L., iv. 286. 
undelightful (un-df-lit'ful), a. Not giving de- 
light or grea_t pleasure. 
undemocratize (un-de-mok'ra-tiz), v. t. To 
render undemocratic. ' [Rare.] 
Its consequence was to undemocratize the Democratic 
party, and secure its final defeat. 
N. A. Rev., CXXIII. 256. 
undemonstrable (un-do-mon'stra-bl), a. Inde- 
monstrable. Hooker, Secies. Polity, v. $ 9. 
undemonstrative (un-de-tnon'stra-tiv), a. Not 
demonstrative or given to excited or strong ex- 
pression of feeling ; reserved, from modesty, 
diffidence, or policy: as, an undemonstrative 
person ; undemonstrative manners. 
undeniable (un-de-m'a-bl), a. 1. Incapable 
of being denied; indisputable; evidently true: 
as, undeniable evidence ; his ability is undeni- 
able. 2. Decidedly and unmistakably good; 
excellent. [Colloq.] 
The daylight, furnished gratis, was certainly "undeni- 
able " in its quality. De Quincey, Roman Meals. 
Wise dissenting matrons were divided between fear 
lest their sons should want to marry her, and resentment 
that she should treat those undeniable young men with a 
distant scorn. George Eliot, Felix Holt, vi. 
= Syn. 1. Indubitable, incontrovertible, unquestionable, 
incontestable. 
undeniableness (un-de-ni'a-bl-nes), n. The 
character of being undeniable. Nineteenth Cen- 
tury, XXII. 404. 
undeniably (un-de-m'a-bli), adv. So plainly 
as to admit of no contradiction or denial ; indis- 
putably. Locke, Human Understanding, iv. 11. 
undenominational (un-de-nom-i-na'shon-al), 
a. Not denominational ; not pertaining to a de- 
nomination ; not professing the tenets of a de- 
nomination; not in the interests of or confined 
to any denomination; unsectarian: as, an un- 
denominational charity or society. 
undenominationalism (un-de-uom-i-na'shon- 
al-izm), n. The absence of den'ominationalisin, 
or of denominational teaching. 
The Education Act of 1870 practically establishes a new 
religion, undenominationalism, for the elementary schools 
of the country. Contemporary Rev., LIV. 645. 
undepartablet (un-de-par'ta-bl), a. [ME., < 
un- 1 + departable."] That cannot be parted 
from; inseparable. 
No wys man ne may dowte of undepartaUe peyne of the 
shrewes. Chaucer, Boethius, iv. prose 3. 
undependable (un-de-pen'da-bl), a. Not de- 
pendable. 
undependingt (un-df-pen'ding), a. Not de- 
pendent; independent. 
We may confidently conclude it never will be otherwise 
while they are thus upheld undepending on the Church, 
on which alone they anciently depended. 
Milton, Touching Hirelings. 
undepraved (un-de-pravd'), a. Not depraved 
or corrupted. V. Knox, Essays, No. 70. 
undepreciated (un-de-pre'shi-a-ted), a. Not 
depreciated or lowered in value : as, undepre- 
ciated bank-notes. 
Undepressed (un-de-presf), a. 1. Not pressed 
down; not lowered; not sunk below the surface. 
One hillock, ye may note, is small and low, 
Sunk almost to the level of the plain 
By weight of time : the others, undepressed. 
Wordsworth, Excursion, vi. 
2. Not depressed, dejected, or cast down. 
Disarmed but undepressed. Byron, The Corsair, st. 8. 
undeprived (un-de-privd'), a. Not deprived, 
stripped, or dispossessed of any property, right, 
or the like ; not divested by authority. Dry- 
den, Character of a Good Parson. 
under (un'der), prep, and adv. [< ME. under, 
undur, undir, undyr, onder, < AS. under = OS. 
undar = OPries. under, ondcr = D. onder = 
MLG. under, LG. under, tinner = OHG. untar, 
6594 
under, MHG. G. unter, under, among, = Icel. 
undir = Sw. Dan. under = Goth, undar, under; 
perhaps akin to L. infra, below, inferus, lower 
(see infra-, inferior), = Skt. adhara, lower, ad- 
has, below; less prob. connected to L. inter, 
between, among, = Oscan anter, under, within.] 
1. prep. 1. Below; beneath: expressing posi- 
tion with reference to that which is above, 
whether in immediate contact or not, or which 
towers aloft, surmounts, covers, or overtops: 
as, all under heaven ; under the earth or the sea ; 
under the surface; under the table; to take 
shelter under a tree; to live under the same 
roof; to hide a thing under a heap of straw; 
to hide one's light under a bushel ; to overhear 
a conversation under one's windows. 
It happed hym to ride 
In al this care under a forest side. 
Chaucer, Wife of Bath's Tale, 1. 134. 
Under the churche of the sayd Syon is the sepulture or 
beryall of prophete and kynge of Israeli. 
Sir R. Ouylforde, Pylgrymage, p. 20. 
Under these palaces was the private enclosed port of 
the Kings, . . . where the Turks, till within this fifty 
years, obliged all foreign ships to ride, not suffering them 
to anchor under the castle, as they do at present. 
Pococke, Description of the East, I. 6. 
They clambered the ascent to the castle in silence, and 
arrived under the dark shadow of its towers without being 
discovered. Irving, Granada, p. 30. 
The citizens beheld with anxiety the encampment of 
this formidable force under their walls. 
Prescott, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 14. 
Whereon a hundred stately beeches grew, 
And here and there great hollies under them. 
Tennyson, Pelleas and Ettarre. 
2. In or at a place, point, or position that is 
lower than; further down than; immediately 
below: as, to hit a man under the belt; to have 
pains under the arms. 
The spear smote him under the fifth rib. 2 Sam. ii. 23. 
He most happily 
Shot him under his collar-bone. 
Sir Andrew Barton (Child's Ballads, VII. 207). 
3. In the position or state of, or while bearing, 
supporting, sustaining, receiving, suffering, un- 
dergoing, or the like: as, to sink under a load; 
to act under great excitement. 
Fainting under 
The pleasing punishment. 
Shak., C. of E., i. 1. 48. 
The remedy which you alledge is the very disease we 
groan under. Milton, Church-Government, i. 6. 
My Lord Sommers thought of me last year for the Bish- 
oprick of Waterf ord ; so my Lord President may now think 
on me for that of Cork, if the incumbent dyes of the 
spotted feaver he is now under. 
Swift, in Ellis's Lit. Letters, p. 343. 
Next, when he was trembling in prayer under a fear that 
no word of God could help him, this part of a sentence 
darted in upon him, "My grace is sufficient." 
Southey, Life of Bimyan, p. 31. 
4. Inferior to in point of rank, dignity, social 
position, or the like. 
It was too great an honour for any man under a duke. 
Addison. 
No person under a diviner can with any prospect of vera- 
city conduct a correspondence at such an arm's length. 
Lamb, Distant Correspondents. 
5. Inferior to or less than, with respect to num- 
ber, amount, quantity, value, age, etc. ; falling 
short of; in or to a less degree than ; hence, at, 
for, or with less than : as, it cannot be bought 
under $20. 
Gold and silver, whereof money is made, they do so use 
as none of them doth more esteem it than the very nature 
of the thing deserved. And then, who doth not plainly see 
how far it is under iron? as without the which men can 
no better live than without fire and water. 
Sir T. More, Utopia (tr. by Robinson), ii. 6. 
Three sones he dying left, all under age. 
Spenser, F. Q., II. x. 64. 
Medicines take effect sometimes under and sometimes 
above the natural proportion of their virtue. 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity. 
There are several hundred parishes in England under 
twenty pounds a year. Sw\ft. 
6. Of sounds, inferior to, in pitch. 7. Sub- 
ject to. (a) In a position of submission or subordina- 
tion to. 
At this court in the third month Passaconaway, the 
chief sachem of Merimack, and his sons came and sub- 
mitted themselves and their people and lands under our 
jurisdiction. Winthrop, Hist. New England, II. 263. 
One who by his own act places himself under authority 
cannot make conditions about his submission. 
Pusey, Eirenicon, p. 197. 
(6) Liable or exposed to: as, under fire; under the pen- 
alty of fine or imprisonment. 
Under pain of greater displeasure, we must rest con- 
tented. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, 
(c) Subject to the government, rule, command, direction, 
orders, guidance, or instruction of: as, to serve under 
under 
Wellington ; I studied under him ; to sit under a favorite 
preacher. 
And als moche takethe the Amyralle be him allone as 
alle the other Souldyours ban undre hym. 
Mandeville, Travels, p. 38. 
Happy are they, and onely they, that are vnder this glori- 
ous and gracious Souereigntie : insomuch that I accompt 
all those abiects that be not hir subjects. 
Lyly, Euphues and his England, p. 454. 
Under which king, Bezonian ? Speak or die ! 
Shak., 2 Hen. IV., v. 3. 118. 
According to the usual custom, the great caravan, under 
the conduct of the governor of Jerusalem, set out for the 
river Jordan on Easter Monday. 
Pococke, Description of the East, II. 30. 
Under him were many good and sound scholars bred. 
Lamb, Christ's Hospital. 
(d) Subject to the influence or operation of; actuated by. 
The Priests and Levites, a Tribe, were of a far different 
Constitution from this of our Ministers under the Gospel. 
Milton, Touching Hirelings. 
I shall, in the first place, take care of one who is under 
the most subtle species of pride that I have observed in 
my whole experience. Steele, Tatler, No. 127. 
8. In accordance with ; in conformity with : as, 
to sell out under the rule. 
He speakes vnder rule and! prescription, and dare not 
shew his teeth without Machiauell. 
Bp. Earle, Micro-cosmographie, A too idly reseru'd Man. 
We have . . . spent some time in hearing both parties, 
concerning the bounds of those patents under which 
yourselves and the other governments do claim. 
Winthrop, Hist. New England, II. 387. 
The commentators and lawyers have agreed that, under 
these circumstances, the marriage must be dissolved. 
E. W. Lane, Modern Egyptians, I. 121. 
9. Bound by: as, to be under bonds, or a vow. 
The greater part of mankind is slow of apprehension ; 
and therefore, in many cases, under a necessity of seeing 
with other men's eyes. South, Sermons. 
10. In : with reference to circumstances. 
To those that live 
Under thy care, good rules and patterns give. 
Denham, Of Prudence. 
I maun be bound to a foreign land, 
And now I'm vnder hiding. 
Sir James the Rose (Child's Ballads, III. 74). 
I found the knight under his butler's hands, who always 
shaves him. Addison, Sir Roger in Westminster Abbey. 
11. In: with reference to category, division, 
section, class, etc. : as, to treat several topics 
under one head. 
Under the double capacity of a poet and a divine. 
Felton, On the Classicks. 
The lower blunt-headed summit which we had learned 
to detest under the name of Mount Avron. 
Forbes, Ex. of War, II. 176. 
12. In course of: as, to be under treatment, 
or under discussion. 13. In the form or style 
of; by the appearance or show of; with the 
character, designation, pretense, pretext, or 
cover of. 
But I do aduertyse you to lyne your lacket vnder this 
fasshyonormaner. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 247. 
He thoght his falshed to feyne, mdur faire wordes, 
And his cautels to colour vnder coynt speche. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 11490. 
It is one of his most crafty and subtle assaults to send 
his warriors forth under the badge of God. 
Latimer, Misc. Selections. 
We read that Kinges & Princes haue written great vol- 
umes and publisht them vnder their owne regall titles. 
Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 16. 
Whosoeuer vnder one name or poesie payeth three pound 
In ready money shall receiue six shillings and eight pence. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith's True Travels, II. 25. 
Art is here represented under the person of Vulcan. 
Bacon, Physical Fables, v., Expl. 
14. During the time or existence of: said es- 
pecially of rulers and their period of rule: as, 
Christ suffered under Pontius Pilate ; the Ar- 
mada was destroyed under the reign of Eliza- 
beth; the American revolution broke out un- 
der the administration of Lord North. 
The remainder of the demesne was sold under the com- 
monwealth. S. Don-ell, Taxes in England, II. 28. 
15. With the sanction, authorization, permis- 
sion, or protection of: as, under favor; under 
leave ; under protection, etc. 
Under whose countenance we steal. 
Shak., 1 Hen. IV., i. 2. 33. 
Under favour, there are other materials for a common- 
wealth besides stark love and kindness. Jeremy Collier. 
IThe preposition under in adverbial phrases often coalesces 
with its noun to form an adverb, from which the adjective 
or noun may be derived : as, under ground. > underground, 
adv. ,y underground, a.; under hand, > underhand, adv., > 
underhand, a. ; so underboard, underearth, under.foot, etc. 
Such forms are not true compounds, but are coalesced 
phrases, like aground, aboard, afoot, etc.] 
Note under nandt. See nofei. Under a cloud. See 
cloudl. Under arms, armed and equipped for military 
or naval service. Under bare poles. See bare*. Un- 
der cloudt, conviction, correction, etc. See the nouns. 
