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While, unchastis'd, the insulting Spaniard dares 
Infest the trading flood. Thomson. 
Not restrained ; unawed. 
Of thee forgetful if I form a song. 
My lyre be broken, and untun’d my tongue. 
My griefs be doubled, from thy image free. 
And mirth a torment, unchastis'd by thee. Tickell. 
UNCHA'STITY, . 5 . Lewdness; incontinence. — That 
generat.on was more particularly addicted to intemperance, 
sensuality, and unchastity. Woodward. 
UNCHE'CKED, adj. Unrestrained; not hindered. 
Apt tire mind, or fancy, is to rove 
Uncheck'd, and of her roving is no end. Milton. 
Not contradicted.—What news on the Rialto?-Why, 
yet it lives there uncheck'd, that Anthonio hath a ship of 
rich lading wreck’d. Shakspearc. 
UNCHEE'RFUL, adj. Sad; gloomy; melancholy.— 
Uncheerful night. Shakspeare —They be commonly lean, 
hirsute, unchecrful in countenance, withered, and not plea¬ 
sant to behold. Burton. 
UNCHEE'RFULNESS, s. Melancholy; gloominess of 
temper.—Many, by a natural uncheerfulness of heart, love 
to indulge this uncomfortable way of life. Addison. 
UNCHEE'RY, adj. Dull; not enlivening. See Cheery. 
—The sad accidents of life, and the uncheery hours which 
perpetually overtake 11 s. Sterne. 
UNCHE'WED, adj. Not masticated. 
He fills his famish'd maw, his mouth runs o’er 
With unchew'd morsels, while he churns the gore. Dryden, 
To UNCHI'LD, v. a. To deprive of children. 
He hath widow’d and unchilded many a one, 
Which to this hour bewail the injury. Shakspeare, 
To render unworthy of the name and character of a child. 
—They do justly unchild themselves, that in main elections 
dispose of themselves without the consent of those which 
gave them being. It is both unmannerly and unnatural in 
the child to run before, without, against, the will of the 
parent. Bp. Hall. 
UNCHRI'STIAN, adj. [uncpiptene, Sax.] Contrary to 
the laws of Christianity.—It’s uncharitable, unchristian, 
and inhuman, to pass a peremptory sentence of condemna¬ 
tion upon a try’d friend, where there is any room left for a 
more favourable judgment. L'Estrange. — Unconverted; 
infidel.—Whereupon grew a question, whether a Christian 
soldier might herein do as the unchristian did, and wear as 
they wore. Hooker. 
To UNCHRI'STIAN, v, a. To deprive of the constitu¬ 
ent qualities of a Christian.—Atheism is a sin, that does not 
only unchristian, but unman, the person that is guilty of it. 
South. 
UNCHRI'STI ANLY, adj. Contrary to the laws of Chris¬ 
tianity.—It will ensnare us to unchristianly compliances. 
Milton. 
UNCHRI'STIANLY, adv. In a manner contrary to the 
laws of Christianity.—How durst sundry holy and learned 
men have rejected his decisions, whether right or wrong is 
not ncyv the question, unchristianly out of doubt on their 
parts, if he had been then holden the infallible oracle of our 
religion ? Bp. Bedell 
UNCHRl'STIANNESS, s. Contrariety to Christianity. 
—The unchristianness of those denials might arise from a 
displeasure to see me prefer my own divines before their mi¬ 
nisters. King Charles. 
To UNCHU'RCII, v. a. To deprive of the character and 
rights of a church; to expel from a church.—The Greeks— 
for this cause stand utterly unchurched by the church of 
Rome. South. 
U'NCIAL, adj. [ unciajis, Lat. “ literae unciales.”] Be¬ 
longing to letters of a large size, used in ancient manuscripts. 
—The term uncial is of no great antiquity; it was intro¬ 
duced by those who have treated of ancient writings, to dis¬ 
tinguish those manuscripts, which are written in large round 
characters, from those written in pure capitals. The word 
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probably took its rise from the manuscripts that were written 
in such letters as are generally used for the heads and titles of 
chapters, which were called by the librarii, or book-writers, 
literal initiates (but were not capitals), which words the ig¬ 
norant monks and schoolmen mistook for literce unciales „ 
Uncial writing began to be adopted about the middle of the 
fifth century. Astle. 
U'NCIAL, s. An uncial letter.—If a manuscript is en¬ 
tirely in uncials, it may very well be supposed prior to the 
close of the ninth century. Astle. 
UNCl'RCUMCISED, adj. Not circumcised; not a Jew. 
—The uncircumcis'd smiled grimly with disdain. Cowley. 
UNCIRCUMCI'SION, s. Omission of circumcision.— 
God, that gives the law that a Jew shall be circumcised, 
thereby constitutes uncircumcision an obliquity; which, 
had he not given that law, had never been such. Hammond. 
UNCI'RCUMSCRIBED, adj. Unbounded; unlimited. 
Though I, uncircumscrib'd myself, retire, 
And put not forth my goodness. Milton. 
UNCI'RCUMSPECT, adj. Not cautious; not vigilant. 
—Their uncircumspcct simplicity had been used, especially 
in matters of religion. Hayward. 
UNCIRCUMSTA'NTIAL, adj. Unimportant. A bad 
word. —The like particulars, although they seem uncircum¬ 
stantial, are oft set down in Holy Scripture. Brown. 
UNCl'VIL, adj. [inchHis, Lat.] Unpolite; not agree¬ 
able to rules of elegance, or complaisance. 
They love me well, yet I have much to do. 
To keep me from uncivil outrages. Shakspeare. 
UNCI'VILLY, adv. Unpolitely; not complaisantly.— 
Somewhat in it he would not have done, or desired undone, 
when he broke forth as desperately, as before he had done 
uncivilly. Brown. 
UNCIVILIZED, adj. Not reclaimed from barbarity. 
But we, brave Britons, foreign laws despis’d. 
And kept unconquer’d, and uncivilized: 
Fierce for the liberties of wit, and bold. 
We still defy’d the Romans, as of old. Pope. 
Coarse; indecent.—Several, who have been polished in 
France, make use of the most coarse, uncivilized words in 
our language. Addison. 
UNCLAIMED, adj. Not claimed ; not demanded.—No 
peaceful desert yet unclaim'd by Spain. Johnson. 
UNCLA'RIFIED, adj. Not purged; not purified.—One 
ounce of whey unclarified; one ounce of oil of vitriol, make 
no apparent alteration. Bacon. 
To UNCLA'SP, v. a. To open what is shut with clasps. 
Thou know’st no less, but all; I have unclasp'd 
To thee the book, ev’n of my secret soul. Shakspeare. 
UNCLA'SSICAL, or Uncla'ssic, adj. Not classic. 
Angel of dulness, sent to scatter round 
Her magic charms o’er all unclassic ground. Pope. 
U'NCLE, s. [ oncle, Fr.] The brother of one’s father or 
mother.—Hamlet punishes his unde rather for his own death 
than the murtber of his father. Shakspeare. 
UNCLE'AN, adj. [unclaene, Sax.] Foul; dirty; filthy. 
Charon, 
A sordid god : down from his hoary chin 
A length of beard descends, uncomb’d, unclean. Dryden. 
Not purified by ritual practices; foul with sin. 
Besides how vile, contemptible, ridiculous, 
What act more execrably unclean, profane ? Milton. 
Lewd; unchaste. 
Let them all encircle him about. 
And, fairy-like too, pinch the unclean knight, 
And ask him, why that hour of fairy revel. 
In their so sacred paths he dares to tread, 
In shape profane ? Shakspeare. 
UNCLE'ANLINESS, s. Want of cleanliness.—This pro¬ 
fane liberty and uncleanliness, the archbishop resolved to 
reform. Clarendon. 
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