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Admit a God, that mystery supreme. 
That cause uncaus'd ! all other wonders cease. Young . 
Those who have maintained the eternity of matter, have 
never been able to prove itwhence the idea of un¬ 
caused matter cannot be a just idea. A. Baxter. 
UNCA'UTIOUS, adj. Not wary ; heedless. 
Unforeseen, they say, is unprepared: 
Uncautious Arcite thought himself alone. Dry den. 
UNCEASING, adj. Continual. 
Are these the unceasing joys, the unmingled pleasures, 
For which Aspasia scorn’d the Turkish crown ? Johnson. 
UNCE'LEBRATED, adj. Not solemnized. 
Thus was the first day, ev’n and morn ; 
Nor pass’d uncelebrated, nor unsung 
By the celestial choirs. Milton. 
UNCELE'STIAL, adj. Not partaking of the qualities 
of heaven ; opposite to what is heavenly; hellish. 
’Tis nature’s structure, broke by common will, 
Breeds all that uncelestial discord there. Young. 
UNCE'NSURED, adj. Exempt from public reproach. 
UNCEREMONIOUS, adj. Not attended with cere¬ 
mony ; plain.—In the more plain and unceremonious 
times, woman was a title applied to ladies of the greatest 
quality and merit by people of the greatest humanity and 
exactness of behaviour. 13lack-wall. —No warning given ! 
unceremonious fate! Young. 
UNCERTAIN, adj. [incertain, Fr.» incertus, Lat.] 
Doubtful; not certainly known. 
That sacred pile, so vast, so high, 
That whether ’tis a part of earth or sky. 
Uncertain seems; and may be thought a proud 
Aspiring mountain, or descending cloud. Denham. 
Doubtful; not having certain knowledge.—Man, without 
the protection of a superior being is secure of nothing that 
he enjoys, and uncertain of every thing that he hopes for. 
Tillots'on. —Not sure in the consequence. 
I must be married to my brother’s daughter, 
Or else my kingdom stands on brittle glass; 
Murther her brothers, and then marry her! 
Uncertain way of gain ! Shakspeare. 
Not exact; not sure. 
Ascanius young, and eager of his game, 
Soon bent his bow, uncertain in his aim : 
But the dire fiend the fatal arrow guides. 
Which pierc’d his bowels through his panting sides. 
Dry den. 
Unsettled; unregular.—As the form of our public service 
is not voluntary, so neither are the parts thereof uncertain ; 
but they are all set down in such order, and with such 
choice, as hath, in the wisdom of the church, seemed best. 
Hooker. 
UNCERTAINED, adj. Made uncertain. A word not 
used. —The diversity of seasons are not so uncertained by 
the sun and moon alone, who always keep one and the 
same course, but that the stars have also their working 
therein. Ralegh. 
UNCERTAINLY, adv. Not surely; not certainly. 
Go, mortals, now, and vex yourselves in vain 
For wealth, which so uncertainly must come: 
When what was brought so far, and with such pain, 
Was only kept to lose it nearer home, Dryden. 
Not confidently. 
They that are past all hope of good, are past 
All fear of ill: and yet if he be dead, 
Speak softly, or uncertainly. Denham. 
UNCE'RTAINTY, s. Dubiousness; . want of know¬ 
ledge. 
You common cry of curs, whose breath 1 hate. 
Here then remain with your uncertainty ; 
Let ev’ry feeble rumour shake your hearts. Shakspearc. 
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Inaccuracy.—That which makes doubtfulness and uncer¬ 
tainty in the signification of some, more than other words, 
is the difference of ideas they stand for. Locke. —Contin¬ 
gency; want of certainty.—God’s omniscience is a light 
shining into every dark corner, stedfastiy grasping the great¬ 
est and most slippery uncertainties. South. —Something 
unknown.—Our shepherd’s case is every man’s case, that 
quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty, and leaps from 
the honest business he was brought up to, into a trade he-has 
no skill in. L'Estrange. 
UNCE'SSANT, adj. Continual: we now say incessant. 
—With unccssant industry persist. More. 
UNCE'SSANTLY, adv. Continually.— Uncessantly and 
carefully performing all those offices, to which they are ap¬ 
pointed. Smith. 
To UNCHA'IN, v. a. To free from chains. 
Minerva thus to Perseus lent her shield. 
Secure of conquest, sent him to the field: 
The hero acted what the queen ordain’d; 
So was his fame complete, and Andromede unchain'd. Prior. 
UNCHANGEABLE, adj. Immutable; not subject to 
variation.—If the end for which a law provideth, be per¬ 
petually necessary; and the way whereby it provideth per¬ 
petually also most apt, no doubt but that every such law 
ought for ever to remain unchangeable. Hooker. 
UNCHANGED, adj. Not altered. 
More safe I sing with mortal voice; unchang'd 
To hoarse, or mute. Milton. 
Not alterable. 
Dismiss thy fear. 
And heaven’s unchang'd decrees attentive hear: 
More powerful gods have torn thee from my side. Dryden. 
UNCHANGEABLENESS, *. Immutabffity.— 1 This un¬ 
changeableness of colour I am now to describe. Neicton. 
UNCHANGEABLY, adv. Immutably; without change. 
Her first order, disposition, frame, 
Must then subsist unchangeably the same. Blackmore. 
UNCHANGING, adj. Suffering no alteration. 
To UNCHARGE, v. a. To retract an accusation. 
Even his mother shall uncharge the practice, 
And call it accident. Shakspeare. 
UNCHARITABLE, adj. Contrary to charity; contrary 
to the universal love prescribed by Christianity. 
UNCHARITABLENESS, 5. Want of charity. — The 
penitence of the criminal may have number’d him among 
the saints, when our unretracted uncharitableness may send 
us to unquenchable flames. Gov. of the Tongue. 
UNCHARITABLY, adv. In a manner contrary to cha¬ 
rity.—I did not mean the cutting off all that nation with the 
sword; which, far be it from me that I should ever think so 
desperately, or wish so uncharitably. Spenser. 
To UNCHARM, v. a. To release from some secret 
power. 
I am uncharm'd; 
Farewell, thou cursed house! Beautn. and FI. 
UNCHARMING, adj. No longer able to charm.— 
When old, uncharming Catherine was remov’d. Dryden. 
UN CHARY, adj. Not wary; not cautious; not frugal. 
I’ve said too much unto a heart of stone. 
And laid my honour too unchary out. Shakspeare. 
UNCHA'STE, adj. Lewd; libidinous; not continent; 
not chaste; not pure. 
In my master’s garments, 
Which he inforc’d from me, away he posts 
With unchaste purposes, to violate 
My lady’s honour. Shakspeare. 
UNCHASTI'SABLE, adj. Not to be chastised.—The 
hard hearts, unchastisable in (hose judicial courts, were so 
remitted there, as bound over to the higher session of con¬ 
science. Milton. 
UNCHASTFSED, adj. Not punished. 
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