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UNBEAU'TEOUS, or Unbeau'tiful, adj. Not beau¬ 
tiful ; plain. 
To UNBECO'ME, v. a. Not to become; to misbecome. 
—It neither unbccomes God nor men to be moved by reason. 
Sherlock. 
UNBECO'MING, adj. Indecent; unsuitable; indecor¬ 
ous. 
Here’s our chief guest.- 
—— If he had been forgotten, 
It had been as a gap in our great feast, 
And all things unbecoming. Shakspeare. 
UNBECO'MINGLY, adv. In an unsuitable or improper 
manner.—In being discontented, we behave ourselves very 
unbecomingly and unworthily. Barrow. 
UNBECO’MINGNESS, s. Indecency ; indecorum.—If 
■words are sometimes to be used, they ought to be grave, 
kind, and sober, representing the ill or unbecomingness of 
the fault. Locke. 
To UNBE'D, v, a. To raise from a bed.—Eels unbed 
themselves, and stir at the noise of thunder. Walton. 
UNBEFTTTING, adj. Not becoming; not suitable. 
Love is full of unbefitting strains, 
All wanton as a child, skipping in vain. Shakspeare. 
UNBEFRI'ENDED, adj. Wanting friends; without 
friends.—The patronage of the poor and unbefriended. 
Ki/lingbeck. 
To UNBEGE'T, v. n. To deprive of existence. 
Wishes each minute he could unbeget 
Those rebel sons, who dare t’ usurp his seat. Dryden. 
UNBEGOT, or Unbego'tten, adj. Eternal; without 
generation.—Why should he attribute the same honour to 
matter, which is subject to corruption, as to the eternal, un¬ 
begotten, and immutable God? Stilling feet .—Not yet 
generated. 
God omnipotent, must’ring 
Armies of pestilence; and they shall strike 
Your children yet unborn, and unbegot. Shakspeare. 
Not attaining existence.—Where a child finds his own 
parents his perverters, better were it for him to have been 
unborn and unbegot, than ask a blessing of those whose 
conversation breathes nothing but a curse. South. 
To UNBEGUI'LE, v. a. To undeceive; to set free 
from the influence of any deceit. 
Then unbeguile thyself, and know with me. 
That angels, though on earth employ’d they be, 
Are still in heaven. Donne. 
UNBEGU'N, adj. Not yet begun.—All things, which 
God in their times and seasons has brought forth, were eter¬ 
nally and before all times in God, as a work unbegun is 
in the artificer, which afterward bringeth it unto effect. 
Hooker. 
UNBEHE'LD, adj. Unseen; not discoverable to the 
sight. 
These then, though unbeheld in deep of night. 
Shine not in vain. Milton. 
UNBE'ING, adj. Not existing.—Where we were when 
the foundations of the earth were laid, when the morning 
stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy. 
He must answer who asked it; who understands entities of 
preordination, and beings yet unbeing. Brown. 
UNBELIE'F, s. [ungeleapa, Sax.] Incredulity. 
’Tis not vain or fabulous, 
What the sage poets, taught by the heavenly muse. 
Storied of old in high immortal verse, 
Of dire chimeras, and enchanted isles, 
And rifted rocks, whose entrance leads to hell; 
For such there be, but unbelief is blind. Milton . 
Infidelity; irreligion.—Where profess’d unbelief is, there 
can be no visible church of Christ ; there may be where 
sound belief wanteth. Hooker. 
To UNBELIE'VE, v. a. To discredit; not to trust. 
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Heav’n shield your grace from woe. 
As I, thus wrong’d, hence unbelieved go. Shakspeare. 
Not to think real or true. 
Nor less than sight and hearing could convince, 
Of such an unforeseen and unbeliev'd offence. Dryden. 
UNBELIE'VER, s. An infidel; one who believes not 
the Scripture of God.—Men always grow vicious before 
they become unbelievers; but if you would once convince 
profligates by topics drawn from the view of their own quiet, 
reputation, and health, their infidelity would soon drop off. 
Swift. 
UNBELIE'VING, adj. Infidel. 
No pause, 
No stay of slaughter found his vigorous arm; 
But the unbelieving squadrons turn’d to flight, 
Smote in the rear. Philips. 
This wrought the greatest confusion in the unbelieving 
Jews, and the greatest conviction in the Gentiles. Addison. 
UNBELO'VED, adj. Not loved. 
Whoe’er you are, not unbelov'd by heaven. 
Since on our friendly shore your ships are driven. Dryden. 
To UNBE'ND, v. a. To free from flexure. 
I must be in the battle; but I’ll go 
With empty quiver, and unbended bow. Dryden. 
To relax; to remit; to set at ease for a time. 
From those great cares when ease your soul unbends. 
Your pleasures are design’d to noble ends. Dryden. 
To relax vitiously or effeminately. 
You unbend your noble strength, to think 
So brain-sickly of things. Shakspeare. 
UNBE'NDING, adj. Not suffering flexure. 
Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, 
Flies o’er th’ unbending corn, and skims along the main. 
Pope. 
Not yielding; resolute. 
Ye noble few, who here unbending stand 
Beneath life’s pressures, yet a little while, 
And all your woes are past. Thomson. 
Devoted to relaxation.—Since what was omitted in the 
acting is now kept in, I hope it may entertain your lord- 
ship at an unbending hour. Rowe. 
UNBE'NEFICED, adj. Not preferred to a benefice. 
More vacant pulpits would more converts make; 
All would have latitude enough to take: 
The rest unbeneficed your sects maintain. Dryden. 
UNBENE'VOLENT, adj. Not kind.—A religion which 
not only forbids, but by its natural influence sweetens all 
bitterness and asperity of temper, which inclines men to a 
fierce, unbenevolent behaviour. Rogers. 
UNBENl'GHTED, adj. Never visited by darkness. 
Beyond the polar circles; to them day 
Had unbenighted shone, while the low sun, 
To recompense his distance, in their sight 
Had rounded still the horizon. Milton. 
UNBENI'GN, adj. Malignant; malevolent. 
To the other five 
Their planetary motions, and aspects, 
In sextile, square, and trine, and opposite, 
Of noxious efficacy; and when to join 
In synod unbenign. Milton. 
UNBE'NT, adj. Not strained by the string. 
Apollo heard; and, conquering his disdain, 
Unbent his bow, and Greece inspir’d again. Dryden. 
Having the bow unstrung. 
Why hast thou gone so far, 
To be unbent when thou hast ta’en thy stand, 
Th’ elected deer before thee ? Shakspeare. 
Not crushed; not subdued. 
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