unqult 
2. Unpaid. 
The dal Is past, tlic iletto r H ., ; r/;/. 
//"'v /<...;<[:. K. r. s.), p. un. 
unquizzable (iin-kwi/'a-i)]), . [< -i + f /,ii- 
+ -dhli.\ Not otpable of liein;; quizzed; not 
open to ridicule. 
r.ju-li \vns dressed out hi bin "No. 1 suit, in moat exact 
ftlld tltlljuiZZillili' llllilonil. 
Miirriiat, l-'iank Mililinny, xv. (Daviet.) 
6639 
unreadable Oin-re'da-bl), . Not readable. 
(<i) Incapable of being read or deciphered; illegible: as, 
in,, -"i'lnt'1,- miinusri ipt or writing. (M Not Kiiitiible or fit 
tor muling: not worth reading: as, a dull, unreadable 
)>ook or [KH tit. 
Ooethe . . . wanted his time iiml thwarted his creative 
> in f_ r > on the mechanical mock-antique of an tinretnlnUr 
"Achilleia." Lvmll, study Windows, p. 217. 
l'...,,k- iillilowt inirin l,ihl,' to i|,'|ii-:ite Inincl-. 
I. /ItrUt Living Age, CIA I. 7.Y 
unrecognizably 
An alarmist by nature, an aristocrat by pnrty, he [Xen- 
ophon] carried to an iiiir-fa*nn<ible excess his horror of 
p'ijiiilnr turl'iii lr-<M//.n/, Hi-t'.rv 
3f. Not endowed with reason ; irrational. 
The nature of creatures unreasonable. 
.s'.r T. Muni, The Oovernour, III. S. 
UnrtatonaliU creatures feed their young. 
Malt., :( Hen. VI., ii. 2. 2. 
4. Not listening to or acting according to 
unracedt, " [ME., < im- 1 + rarrd, pp. of rncc*.] unreadablenes8(un-re'da-bl-ncs), . Thequal- reason; not guided by reason; not influenced 
' 
by reason. 
I most lie most unrraianable to lie dissatisfied at any 
IhiiiK that he chooses to put In a book which I never shall 
read. 
Trerelyan, In Life of Maraiilay, I. 204. 
Unbroken; midestroyed. ity or state of being unreadable; illegibility. 
Tho thingea . . . ben kept hoole and unrated. Mln-iiii-iini, No. XHW, p. llil. 
Chaucer, Bocthlits, iv. prose i. unreadily (un-red'i-li). ndr. In an unready 
unracked (un-rakf ),. Not racked ; not hav- manner, (a) Unpreparedly. (6) Not promptly ; not 
iiif; the contents freed from the lees: as, an MM- <i a '<*ly- () Awkwardly. 
racked vessel, llama, Nat. Hist., 4 306. Me " being first Inforced to write their actes and monu- 
unraiooH Inn ranl'\ \..i ,-,; /\vi i ments ill beasts skllmes dried, In barkes of trees, or oth.i- 
gj ' ' t raised. (a)Notele- wlge perchance as unreadily, llakluyt'i Voyage*, II. 171. 
The flat unraiiril spirits. ShaJc., Hen. V., Prol , 1. 9 unreadiness (un-red'i-nes), n. The character 
(6) Not abandoned, as a slege. dv SSS^iiV^rfSt , r,d,, < ,n, 1 UnreaSOnableneSS^n-re'znla-bl-nes), . The 
The siege shulde nat be unreyied. Unready (un-recl i), n. K J1K. unruly, < MM-' vmict.T i.l uhle 
B..r,tr.ofFroi 8 8arfsChron.,l.cccxxxviii. + ready.] 1 . Not ready ; not prepared ; not )le > " 
UHJ heimt - 
A dismal picture of the general doom ; 
Where souls distracted, when the trumpet blows, 
And half unready with their bodies come. 
5f. Inconvenient. 
We departed to our lodging, desiring to know whether 
our coming the next day might not be uneasy or unreaton- 
able to her. Penn, Travels In Holland, etc. 
= Byn. Abmrd, Silly, Fooluh, etc. (see alanird\ oUtlnate. 
wrong-headed, extravagant, unfair, unjust, extortionate. 
unraked (un-rakf), . 1. Not raked: as. land 
unraked. 2. Not raked together; not raked up. 
Where fires thou nnd'st unraked. 
Shot., M. W. of W., v. 5. 48. 
3t. Not sought or acquired by effort, as by rak- 
ing. 
He doubtless will command the People to make good 
his Promises of Maintenance more honourably unask'd, 
unrak'd lor. Milton, Touching Hirelings. 
unransacked (un-ran'sakt), . 1. Not ran- 
sacked; not searched. 2. Not pillaged. 
Knulles. Hist, of the Turks, 
unraptured (un-rap'turd), a. Not enraptured, 
enchanted, charmed"br transported. 
Man unrapturnl, uninflamed. 
Young, Night Thoughts, iv. 
unravel (un-rav'el), r. ; pret. and pp. unrareled. 
unravelled, ppr. tiiirareling, unravelling, [< MM-- 
+ ravel. The prefix is either reversive or in- 
tensive, according as ravel is taken to mean 
'tangle' or 'untangle.'] I. trans. 1. To dis- 
entangle or separate, as threads ; especially, 
to take out the threads of (textile material). 
See ravel. 
I have talked with my own heart, 
And have unravelled my entangled will. 
Shelley, The Cencl, iii. 1. 
By means of a prism Sir Isaac Newton unravelled the 
texture of solar light. Tyndall, Radiation, J 1. 
2. To clear from complication or difficulty; 
unriddle ; unfold. 
These, with fifty other pointa left unranelled, you may 
endeavor to solve, If you have time. 
Sterne, Tristram Shandy, II. 19. 
unreasonably (un-re'zn-a-bli), adr. In an un- 
reasonable manner; contrary to reason; fool- 
ishly; excessively; immoderately. 
Dryden, Anna, MirabllU, st 254. unreasoned (un-re'znd), a. Not reasoned or 
2. Not prompt; not quick. St. Awkward; 
ungainly. 
An unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn. 
Bacon, Youth and Age. 
4f. Not dressed ; undressed. 
How now, my lords ! what, all unready so? 
Shall.. 1 Hen. VI., II. 1. 
F.nter James, vureaihj, in his night-cap, garterlesa. 
Stage Direction in Tiro Maid* of Moreclack. (Xarei.) 
To make unready*, to undress or unharness. 
Come, where have you been, wench ? Make me unready. 
I slept but 111 last night. Fletcher, Island Princess, ill. 
Make unready the hones ; thou knowest how. ,_ 
B. Jonton, New Inn, i. 1. Unreasoningly (un-re'zn-mg-ll). ndr. 
(un-red'i), r. t. [< unready, n.J To 
argued; not due to reason or reasoning; not 
founded on reason; not thought out. 
Old prejudices and unreatoned hablti. 
Burke, Kev. In France. 
The unreasoned denial of a fact Is qnlte as Illogical as 
Its Mind acceptance. Nineteenth Century, XXIV. 588. 
unreasoning (un-re'zn-ing), a. Not reasoning; 
not having reasoning faculties; characterized 
by want of reason. 
To these rational considerations there Is superadded. 
In extreme cases, a panic as unreasoning as the previous 
over-confidence. J. s. Mill. 
Hee remayned with his daughter, to give his wife time disentangle loose 
_ - . . . I" an 
unreasoning manner; without reasoning or re- 
flection. N. A. Rev., CXL. 194. 
t. To take to pieces; 
O f ,, n rendyiny herself. 
Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, p. S78. (Narei.) 
unreal (un-re'al), fl. 1. Not real; not substan- 
tial; having appearance only; illusive; ideal. 
Hence, horrible shadow ! 
Unreal mockery, hence ! 
Shak.. Macbeth, iii. 4. 107. 
2. Unpractical; visionary. 
Those who have most loudly advertised their passion 
The worke that she all day did make, 
The same at night she did agalne unreare. 
Upenxr, Sonnets, xxiil. 
unreavedt (un-revd'), a. Not taken or pulled 
to pieces. 
Could'st thou think that a cottage not too strongly built, 
and standing so bleak in the very mouth of the winds, 
could for any long time hold tight and unreaved > 
lip. Hall, Balm of Gilead. 
3t. To separate the connected or united parts ureality (un-re-al'i-ti), . 1. Lack of reality uncallable 
of ; throw into disorder. 
Unravelling all the received principles of reason and 
religion. Tillotton, Sermons, I. i. 
4. To unfold or bring to a denouement, as the 
plot or intrigue of a play. Pope. 
II. intranx. To be unfolded; be disentan- 
gled. 
What webs of wonder shall unravel there ! 
Young, Night Thoughts, vl. 
unraveler, unraveller (un-rav'el-er), n. One 
who or that which unravels. 
Mythologlsts are indeed very pretty fellows, and are 
mighty tmravfllers of the fables of the old Ethnlcks, dis- 
covering all the Old Testament concealed in them. 
T. Brown, Works, III. 279. (Davits.) 
unravelment (un-rav'el-ment), n. The act or 
process of unraveling; disentanglement; un- 
folding. 
In the course of the itnravelment of the conspiracy 
unrazored (un-ra'zord), a. Unshaved. 
Their unrazor'd lips. Milton, Comus, 1. 290. 
unreached (un-rechf), a. Not reached; not 
attained to. 
That lofty hill unreached. Dryden. 
unread 1 !, w. [ME. unred, tinned. < AS. unrSil 
(= Icel. uradh = Dan. uraad). bad counsel, 
< KM-, not (here 'bad'), + riftl. counsel: see. 
read, .] Bad advice or counsel. 
unread 2 (un-red'), a. [< i/N-1 + read, pp. of 
ivw/i, r.] 1. Not read; not perused. 
These books are safer and better to be left publlckly 
unread. Hooker, Ec'cles. Polity. 
2. Untaught ; not learned in books. 
The clon-ii tinrfnil. and half-rend gentleman. 
Dryd'n. Hind and Panther, iii. 408. 
or real existence. 2. That which has no re- 
ality or real existence. 
He (Julius Ctesar) was too sincere to stoop to unreality. 
He held to the facU of this life and to his own convic- 
tions. Froude, Ciesar, p. 549. 
3. Unpractical character; visionariness. 
The unreality nt the optimistic religions of the day was 
what he attacked unceasingly from youth to age, with an 
energy as honest III its way as Carlyle's. 
The Critif, XIV. 243. 
unrealize (un-re'al-iz), r. t. [< unreal + ->e.] 
To take away the reality of; make or consider 
unreal ; divest of reality ; present or treat in an 
ideal form. [Rare.] 
The men, the women, . . . the lounger, the beggar, the 
hoys, the dogs, are unrealized at once. 
unreason (un-re'zn), . Lack of reason; un- 
reasonableness; irrationality; nonsense; folly; 
absurdity. Abbot of unreason. See abbot. 
t. [( unreason, n.~\ To 
to be unreasonable; disprove by argu- 
[Rare.] 
for seclusion and their intimacy with nature, from Pe- nnrphfltpri Cnn r hi'tpdl n San //;,/,,/ 
trareh down, have been mostly sentimentalists, unreal Tmr >a;> a< f 
men. Lowell, Study Windows, p. 2O5. A mimlwr of fencers tried It, with unrebated swords. 
Fallacy of unreal middle. See fallacy. Unreal Hakemll, Apology, 
quantity, an imaginary quantity. unrobukable (un-re-bu'ka-bl). a. Not deserv- 
ITim. 
_. Not recall- 
able ; incapable of being called back, revoked, 
annulled, or recalled. 
That which Is done Is vnrecallable. 
Feltham, Resolves, 1. 80. 
unrecallingt (un-re-kal'ing), a. Not to be re- 
called. [Rare.] 
And ever let his unreealling crime 
Have time to wall th abusing of his time. 
Shot., Lucrece, I. 993. 
unreceived (un-re-sevd'), a. Not received; not 
$54. 
unreckonable (un-rek'n-a-bl), a. Not capable 
of being reckoned or counted ; immeasurable; 
immense. Hatrthome. Seven Gables, ii. 
Don 
ebastian, iii. 1. 
10. 
. 
clainmhlv. ]ip. Hall', Peacemaker. $ 8. 
Irre- 
To unreason the equity of God's proceedings. SouM. unreclaimed (un-re-klamd'). a. Not'reclaimed. 
unreasonable (un-re'zn-a-bl), a. 1. Not reason- 
able or agreeable to reason ; irrational. 
For it is an rnretonable religloun that hath rijte nonjte of 
certeyne. Pieri Plowman (K\ vl. 1SS. 
If he [Henry VIII.) seems to act upon pure self-will, he 
is able to give a reason for his acts, and that such a reason 
as we cannot on mere prejudice determine to lie unreanm- 
ablf. Stubbt. Medieval and Modern Hist, p. 244. 
2. Exceeding the bounds 
what is reasonable or moderate 
(a) Not brought to a domestic state ; not tamed. 
A savageness in unrrclaitnrd blood. 
Shot., Hamlet, II. 1. 34. 
Bullocks unreclaimed to bear the yoke. 
Dnjden, tr. of Ovid's Metamorph., xlll. 
(fc) Not reformed : not called back from vice to virtue : as, 
a sinner unreclaimed, (c) Sot brought Into a state of cul 
tivatlon, as desert or wild land. 
of reason ; beyond unrecognizable (un-rek'og-ni-za-bl), n. Not 
lerate; exorbitant; recognizable; incapable of being recognized; 
immoderate: as, an unreasonable price. irrecognizable. Coleridge. 
The pretence was Infinitely unreatonaNe, and therefore unrecognizably (nn-rok'og-m-za-bli). adr. In 
had the fate of senseless allegations, it disbanded prea- an unrecognizable manner; without or beyond 
ently. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 18S6X I. 77. recognition. 
