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When two adverse winds engage with horrid shock, 
Levying their equal force with utmost rage, 
Long undecided lasts the airy strife. Philips. 
UNDECI'SIVE, adj. Not decisive; not conclusive.— 
Two nations differing about the antiquity of their language, 
made appeal to an undecisive experiment, when they agreed 
upon the trial of a child brought up among the wild inhabi¬ 
tants of the desert. Glanvil/e. 
To UNDE'CK, ». a. To deprive of ornaments. 
I find myself a traitor; 
For I have given here my soul’s consent. 
To undeck the pompous body of a king. Shakspeare. 
UNDECKED, adj. Not adorned; not embellished.— 
Eve we undeck'd, save with herself. Milton. 
UNDECLl'NED, adj. Not grammatically varied by 
termination. 
Grammar in vain the sons of Priscian teach; 
Good parts are better than eight parts of speech: 
Since these declin’d, those undeclin'd they call, 
I thank my stars, that I declin’d them all. Bramston. 
Not deviating; not turned from the right way. 
In his track my wary feet have stept; 
His undeclined ways precisely kept. Sandys. 
UNDE'DICATED, adj. Not consecrated; not devoted. 
—Not inscribed to a patron.—I should let this book come 
forth undedicated, were it not that I look upon this dedica¬ 
tion as a duty. Boyle. 
UNDE'EDED, adj. Not signalized by action. 
My sword, with an unbatler’d edge, 
I sheath again undeeded. Shakspeare . 
UNDEFA'CED, adj. Not deprived of its form; not 
disfigured. 
Those arms, which for nine centuries had brav’d 
The wrath of time, on antick stone engrav’d: 
Now torn by mortars, stand yet undefac'd, 
On nobler trophies by thy valour rais’d. Granville. 
UNDEFE'ASIBLE, adj. Not defeasible; not to be va¬ 
cated or annulled. 
UNDEFENDED, adj. Without defence; easy to be 
assaulted; exposed to assault.—A rich land, guardless and 
undefended, must needs have been a double incitement. 
South. 
UNDEFLO'WERED, adj. Not vitiated.—That unde- 
fowered and unblemishable simplicity of the Gospel. Mil- 
ton. 
UNDEFI'ED, adj. Not set at defiance ; not challenged. 
Tarifa 
Changed a blunt cane for a steel-pointed dart. 
And meeting Ozmyn next, 
Who wanting time for treason to provide. 
He basely threw it at him undefy'd. Dry den. 
UNDEFI'LED, adj. Not polluted; not vitiated; not 
corrupted.—Whose bed is undefil'd, and chaste pronounc’d. 
Milton. 
UNDEFTNABLE, adj. Not to be marked out, or cir¬ 
cumscribed by a definition. 
UNDEFINED, adj. Not circumscribed, or explained 
by a definition.—There is no such way to give defence to 
absurd doctrines, as to guard them round with legions of ob¬ 
scure, doubtful, undefined words. Locke. 
UNDEFO'RMED, adj. Not deformed ; not disfigured. 
UNDELI'BERATED, adj. Not carefully considered.— 
The prince’s undeliberated throwing himself into that 
engagement, transported him with passion. Clarendon. 
UNDELI'GHTED, adj. Not pleased; not touched with 
pleasure. 
The fiend 
Saw undelighted all delight; all kind 
Of living creatures, new to sight. Milton. 
UNDELI'GIITFUL, adj. Not giving pleasure.—He 
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could not think of involving himself in the same undelight- 
J'ul condition of life. Clarendon. 
UNDEMO'LISHED, adj. Not razed; not thrown 
down. 
She'undemolish'd stood, and ev’n till now 
Perhaps had stood. Philips . 
UNDEMONSTRABLE, adj. Not capable of fuller evi¬ 
dence.—Out of the precepts of the law of nature, as of 
certain, common, and undemonstrable principles, man’s 
reason doth necessarily proceed unto certain more particular 
determinations : which particular determinations being found 
out according unto the reason of man, they have the names 
of human laws. Hooker. 
UNDENIABLE, adj. Such as cannot be gainsaid. 
UNDENIABLY, adv. So plainly, as to admit no con¬ 
tradiction.—I grant that nature all poets ought to study: but 
then this also undeniably follows, that those things which 
delight all ages, must have been an imitation of nature. 
Dryden. 
UNDENHEIM, a large village of Germany, in Hesse- 
Darmstadt, to the west of the Rhine. Population 800. 
UNDEPE'NDING, adj. Independent.—They—claim 
an absolute and undepending jurisdiction. Milton, Ohs. 
UNDEPLO'RED, adj. Not lamented. 
Rise, wretched widow ! rise; nor undeplor'cl 
Permit my ghost to pass the Stygian ford; 
But rise, prepar’d to mourn thy perish’d lord. Dryden. 
UNDEPRA'VED, adj. Not corrupted—Knowledge 
dwelt in our wulepraved natures, as light in the sun. It is now 
hidden in us like sparks in a flint. Glanville. 
UNDEPRI'VED, adj. Not divested by authority; not 
stripped of any possession.—He, undepriv'd, his benefice 
forsook. Dryden. 
UNDER, preposition, [undar, Goth.; unbep, Sax.; 
onder, Dutch.]—In a state of subjection to. 
When good Saturn, banish’d from above, 
Was driven to hell, the world was under Jove. Dryden. 
In the state of pupillage to. 
To those that live 
Under thy care, good rules and patterns give. Denham. 
Beneath; so as to be covered, or hidden ; not over; not 
above.—Thy bees lodge under covert of the wind. Dry¬ 
den. —Below in place; not above. This is the sense of un¬ 
der sail; that is, having the sails spread alof. 
By that fire that burn’d the Carthage queen, 
When the false Trojan under sail was seen. Shakspeare. 
In a less degree than —Medicines take effect sometimes 
under, and sometimes above, the natural proportion of their 
virtue. Hooker. —For less than.—We are thrifty enough 
not to part with any thing serviceable to our bodies, under a 
good consideration; but make little account what is most 
beneficial to our souls. Ray. —Less than ; below.—Man, 
once fallen, was nothing but a total pollution, and not to 
be reformed by any thing under a new creation. South. — 
By the show of. 
That which spites me more than all the wants, 
He does it under name of perfect love. Shakspeare. 
With less than.—Several young men could never leave the 
pulpit under half-a-dozen conceits. Swift. —In the state of 
inferiority to; noting rank or order of precedence.—It was 
too great an honour for any man under a duke. Addison. 
—In a state of being loaded with. 
He shall but bear them, as the ass bears gold, 
To groan and sweat under the business. Shakspeare. 
In a state of oppression by, or subjection to.—After all, 
they have not been able to give any considerable comfort to 
the mind, under any of the great pressures of this life. Til- 
lotson. —Women and children did not shew, the least signs 
of complaint, under the extremity of torture. Collier. 
Illustrious parent! now some token give, 
That 
