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Ev’n now the frozen bosom of the north; 
And, being anger’d, puffs away from thence, 
Turning his face to the dew-dropping south. Skakspeare. 
UNCONSTRAINED, adj. Free from compulsion. 
Will you, with free and unconstrained soul. 
Give me your daughter ? Skakspeare. 
UNCONSTRA'INEDLY, adv. Without force suffered. 
—Such a patron has frankly, generously, and unconstrain- 
edly relieved me. South. 
UNCONSTRAINT, s. Freedom from constraint; ease. 
—Mr. Dryden writ more like a scholar; and though the 
greatest master of poetry, he wanted that easiness, that air of 
freedom and unconstraint, which is more sensibly to be per¬ 
ceived than described. Felton. 
UNCONSU'LTING, adj. [inconsultus, Lat.] Heady; 
rash ; improvident; imprudent.—It was the fair Zelmane, 
Plexirtus’s daughter, whom unconsulting affection, unfor¬ 
tunately born to mewards, had made borrow so much of her 
natural modesty, as to leave her more decent rayments. 
Sidney. 
UNCONSU'MED, adj. Not wasted; not destroyed by 
any wasting power. 
Hope never comes. 
That comes to all, but torture without end 
Still urges, and a fiery deluge fed 
With ever-burning sulphur unconsum'd. Milton. 
Fixedness, or a power to remain in the fire unconsumed, 
is an idea that always accompanies our complex ideas, signi¬ 
fied by the word gold. Locke. 
UNCONSU'MMATE, adj. Not consummated. 
Acron came to the fight. 
Who left his spouse betroth'd, and unconsummate night. 
Dryden. 
UNCONTE'MNED, adj. Not despised. 
Which of the peers 
Have uncontemn'd gone by him, or at least 
Stood not neglected ? Shalcspeare. 
UNCONTE'NDED, adj. Not contended for; not con¬ 
tested. 
Permit me, chief, permit without delay 
To lead this uncontended prize away. Dryden. 
UNCONTE'NTED, adj. Not contented; not satisfied. 
UNCONTE'NTINGNESS, s. Want of power to satisfy. 
—The decreed uncontentingness of all other goods, is richly 
repaired by its being but an aptness to prove a rise to our 
love’s settling in God. Boyle. 
UNCONTE'STABLE, adj. Indisputable; not contro¬ 
vertible.—Where is the man that has uncontestible evidence 
of the truth of all that he holds, or the falsehood of all he 
condemns? Locke. 
UNCONTE'STED, adj. Not disputed; evident. 
’Tis by experience uncontested found, 
Bodies orbicular, when whirling round, 
Still shake off all things on their surface plac’d. Blackmore. 
UNCONTRADI'CTED, adj. Not contradicted.—The 
— "place of Daniel was always accounted the most evident and 
uncontradicted testimony. Pearson, 
UNCO'NTRITE, adj. Not religiously penitent.—The 
priest, by absolving an uncontrite sinner, cannot make him 
contrite. Hammond. 
UNCO'NTROVERTED, adj. Not disputed; not liable 
to debate.—One reason of the uncontroverted certainty of 
mathematical science is, because ’tis built upon clear and 
settled significations of names. Glanville. 
UNCONTRO'ULABLE, adj. Resistless; powerful be¬ 
yond opposition. 
Gaza mourns. 
And all that band them to resist 
His uncontrollable intent. Milton. 
Indisputable; irrefragable.—The pension was granted, by 
reason of the king of England’s uncontroulable title to Eng¬ 
land. Hayward. 
UNCONTRO'ULABLY, adv. Without possibility of op¬ 
position ; without danger of refutation.— Uncontroulably, 
and under general consent, many opinions are passant, 
which, upon due examination, admit of doubt. Brown. 
UNCONTRO'ULED, adj. Unresisted; unopposed; not 
to be overruled. 
Should I try the uncontrolled worth 
Of this pure cause, ’twould kindle my rapt spirits 
To such a flame of sacred vehemence, 
That dumb things would be mov’d to sympathize. Milton. 
Not refuted.'—That Julius Caesar was so born, is an uncon - 
trouled report. Hayward. 
UNCONTRO'ULEDLY, adv. Without controul; with¬ 
out opposition.—Mankind avert killing, and being killed; 
but when the phantasm honour has once possessed the mind, 
no reluctance of humanity is able to make head against it; 
but it commands uncontrouledly. Dec. of Chr. Piety. 
UNCONVERSABLE, adj. Not suitable to conversa¬ 
tion ; not social.—Faith and devotion are traduced and ridi¬ 
culed, as morose, unconversable qualities. Rogers. 
UNCON'VERSANT, adj. Not familiar; not acquainted 
with: followed both by in and with. —It may require many 
instances and much discoursing to make this out to persons 
who are haply unconversant in disquisitions of this kind. 
Madox. 
UNCONVERTED, adj. Not persuaded of the truth of 
Christianity.—Salvation belongeth unto none, but such as 
call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ: which nations, 
as yet unconverted, neither do, nor possibly can do, till 
they believe. Hooker. —Not religious; not yet induced to 
live a holy life. Thus Baxter wrote a Call to the Uncon - 
verted. 
UNCONVI'NCED, adj. Not convinced.—A way not 
to be introduced into the seminaries of those, who are to 
propagate religion, or philosophy, amongst the ignorant and 
unconvinced. Locke. 
To UNCO'RD, v. a. To loose a thing bound with cords. 
UNCORRE'CTED, adj. Inaccurate; not polished to 
exactness.—I have written this too hastily and too loosely : 
it comes out from the first draught, and uncorrected. Dry¬ 
den. 
UNCORRIGIBLE, adj. Incapable of being corrected; 
depraved beyond correction: we now say incorrigible. —He 
will seeke to amend himselfe, if he be not altogether uncor- 
rigible. Outred. 
UNCORRUPT, adj. Honest; upright; not tainted with 
wickedness; not influenced by iniquitous interest.—The 
pleasures of sin, and this world’s vanities, are censured with 
uncorrupt judgment. Hooker. 
UNCORRU'PTED, adj. Not vitiated; not depraved. 
Man, yet new, 
No rule but uncorrupted reason knew, 
And with a native bent did good pursue. Dryden. 
UNCORRU'PTEDNESS, s. State of being uncorrupted. 
—How shall the licencers themselves be confided in, unless 
we can confer upon them, or they assume to themselves 
above all others in the land, the grace of infallibility and 
uncorruptedness ? Milton. 
UNCORRU'PTIBLE, adj. That cannot be corrupted. 
—The glory of the uncorruptible God. Rom. 
UNCORRU'PTNESS, s. Integrity; uprightness.—In.doc- 
trine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity. Tillotson. 
To UNCOVER, v. a. To divest of a covering.—After 
you are up, uncover your bed, and open the curtains, to air 
it. Harvey. —To deprive of clothes.—Thou wert better in 
thy grave, than to answer, with thy uncovered body, this 
extremity of the skies. Skakspeare. —To strip off the roof. 
Porches and schools, 
Uncover'd, and with scaffolds cumber’d stood. Prior. 
To shew openly; to strip of a veil, or concealment. 
He cover’d; but his robe 
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