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Great effects by inconsiderable means are sometimes brought 
about; and those so wholly undesigned by such as are the 
immediate actors. South. 
UNDESI'GNEDLY, adv. Without being designed.—All 
these casual references seem to have been portions of tradi¬ 
tional history well known in the time of Homer : and as they 
are introduced almost undesignedly, they are generally 
attended with a great semblance of truth. Bryant. 
UNDESI'GNEDNESS, s. Want of a set purpose; free¬ 
dom from design ; accidentalness.—The undesiguedness of 
the agreements demonstrates, that they have not been pro¬ 
duced by meditation, or by any fraudulent contrivance. 
Pa ley. 
UNDESEGNING, adj. Not acting with any set purpose. 
Could atoms, which, with undirected flight, 
Roam through the void, and rang’d the realms of night, 
In order march, and to their posts advance, 
Led by no guide, but undesigning chance > Blackmore. 
Having no artful or fraudulent schemes; sincere.—He looks 
upon friendship, gratitude, and sense of honour, as terms to 
impose upon weak, undesigning minds. South. 
UNDESIRABLE, adj. Not to be wished; not pleasing. 
To add what wants 
In female sex, the more to draw his love. 
And render me more equal; and perhaps, 
A thing not undesirable, some time 
Superior; for inferior, who is free ? Milton . 
UNDESTRED, adj. Not wished ; not solicited. 
O goddess-mother, give me back to fate ; 
Your gift was undesir'd, and came too late. Dry den. 
UNDESIRING, adj. Negligent; not wishing. 
The baits of gifts and money to despise, 
And look on wealth with undesiring eyes: 
When thou canst truly call these virtues thine. 
Be wise, and free, by heaven’s consent and mine. Pry den. 
UNDESPATRING, adj. Not giving way to despair. 
Anson, with steady undespairing breast, 
Perils endur’d. Dyer. 
UNDESTRO'YABLE, adj. Indestructible; not suscep¬ 
tive of destruction. Not in use. —-Common glass, once 
made, so far resists the violence of the fire, that most chymists 
think it a body more undestroy able than gold itself. Boyle. 
UNDESTRO'YED, adj. Not destroyed.—The essences 
of those species are preserved whole and undestroyed , what¬ 
ever changes happen to any, or all of the individuals. Locke. 
UNDETERMINABLE, adj. Impossible to be decided. 
—On either side the fight was fierce, and surely undetermin¬ 
able without the death of one of the chiefs. Wot ton. 
UNDETERMINATE, adj. Not settled; not decided; 
contingent. Regularly indeterminate. —Surely the Son of 
God could not die by chance, nor the greatest thing that 
ever came to pass in nature, be left to an undeterminate 
event. South. —Not fixed.—Fluid, slippery, and undeter¬ 
minate it is of itself. More. 
UNDETERM1NATENESS, or Undetermina'tion, s. 
[We say more regularly indeterminateness and indetermi¬ 
nation.'] Uncertainty; indecision.—He is not left barely to 
the undetermination, incertainty, and unsteadiness of the 
operation of his faculties, without a certain, secret predispo¬ 
sition of them to what is right. Hate. —The state of not 
being fixed, or invincibly directed.—The idea of a free agent 
is undeterminateness to one part, before he has made choice. 
More. 
UNDETERMINED, adj. Unsettled ; undecided.—He 
has left his succession as undetermined, as if he had said 
nothing about it. Locke. —Not limited; not regulated; not 
defined.—It is difficult to conceive that any such thing should 
be as matter, undetermined by something called form. Hale. 
UNDETE'STING, adj. Not detesting; not holding in 
abhorrence.—Who these indeed can undetesting see ? Thom¬ 
son. 
UNDE'VIATING, adj. Not departing from the usual 
way; regular.—The natural undeviating temperance of the 
animal. Wart on. —Not erring; not crooked. 
Smooth as a wall the upright remnant stands; 
With such undeviating and even force 
He severs it away. Cowper. 
UNDEVO'TED, adj. Not devoted.-—The lords Say and 
Brooke, two popular men, and most undevoted to the 
church, positively refused to make any such protestation. 
Clarendon . 
UNDEVO'UT, adj. Not devout; without devotion.— 
The Greeks being seemingly the most undevout and negli¬ 
gent at their divine service, of any sort of people in the 
Christian world. Maundrell. —An undevout astronomer is 
mad. Young. 
UNDIA'PHANGUS, adj. Not pellucid; not transparent. 
—When the materials of glass melted, with calcined tin, 
have composed a mass undiaphanous and white, this white 
enamel is the basis of all concretes, that goldsmiths employ 
in enamelling. Boyle. 
UNDl'D, the pret. of undo. 
This so undid all I had done before: 
I could attempt, and he endure no more. Roscommon . 
UNDIGESTED, adj. Not concocted ; not subdued by 
the stomach. 
Ambition, the disease of virtue, bred 
Like surfeits from an undigested fulness. 
Meets death in that which is the means of life. Denham. 
Not properly disposed; not reduced to order. 
I find, 
’Tis true, within my undigested mind, 
That there is something hidden in the deep 
Bosom of fate. Fanshaio. 
To UNDI'GHT, v. a, pret. and part, pass, undight. To 
put off. 
From her fair head her fillets she undight , 
And laid her stole aside. Spenser. 
UNDIMI'NISHABLE, adj. That may not be diminished. 
—It being no object of sense, but of intellect, and being also 
impassable and undiminishable. More. 
UNDIMI'NISHED, adj. Not impaired; not lessened. 
Think not, revolted spirit! thy shape the same. 
Or undiminish'd brightness, to be known 
As when thou stood’st in heaven, upright and pure. Milton. 
UNDENTED, aclj. Not impressed by a blow. 
I must rid all the sea of pirates: this ’greed upon. 
To part with unhackt edges, and bear back 
Our barge undinted. Shakspearc. 
UNDTPPED, adj. Not dipped ; not plunged. 
I think thee 
Impenetrably good : but, like Achilles, 
Thou had’st a soft Egyptian heel undipp'd, 
And that has made thee mortal. Dryden. 
UNDIRE'CTED, adj. Not directed. 
Could atoms, which, with undirected flight, 
Roam’d through the void, and rang’d the realms of night. 
Of reason destitute, without intent. 
In order march. Blackmore. 
UNDISCERNED, adj. Not observed; not discovered; 
not descried.—Our profession, though it leadeth us into 
many truths undiscerned by others, yet doth disturb their 
communications. Brown. 
UNDISCERNEDLY, adv. So as to be undiscovered. 
—-Some associated particles of salt-petre, by lurking undis- 
ccrnedly in the fixed nitre, had escaped the analysing vio¬ 
lence of the fire. Boyle. 
UNDISCERNIBLE, adj. Not to be discerned; in¬ 
visible. 
I shou’d be guiltier than my guiltiness, 
To think I should be undiscerniblc, 
When 1 perceive your grace. Shakspeare. 
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