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it not argue a constant will directing them, and a mighty 
hand upholding them ? Barrow. 
UNFLA'GGING, adj. Maintaining spirit; not flagging; 
not drooping.—That, which is carried on with a continued 
unflagging vigour of expression, can never be thought te¬ 
dious. South. 
UNFLA'TTERED, adj. Not flattered; not gratified 
with servile obsequiousness. 
Time mocks our youth; and while we number past 
Delights, and raise our appetite to taste 
Ensuing, brings us to unflatter d age. Habington. 
UNFLA'TTERING, adj. Not concealing the truth; not 
gratifying with servile obsequiousness; sincere. 
Of the neighbouring lake. 
In whose unflattering mirrour every morn 
She counsel takes, how best herself to adorn. Sherburne. 
UNFLE'DGED, adj. That has not yet the full furniture 
of feathers; young; not completed by time; not having at¬ 
tained full growth.— Unfledg'd actors learn to laugh and cry. 
Dry den. 
UNFLE'SHED, adj. Not fleshed ; not seasoned to blood; 
raw. 
As a generous, unflesh'd hound that hears 
From far the hunter’s horn and chearful cry, 
So will I haste. Dry den. 
UNFO'ILED, adj. Unsubdued ; not put to the worst.— 
The usurped powers thought themselves secure in the strength 
of an unfoiled army of sixty thousand men, and in a revenue 
proportionable. Temple. 
To UNFO'LD, v. a. [unpealban, Saxon.] To expand; 
to spread; to open. 
1 saw on him rising 
Out of the water, heaven above the clouds 
Unfold her crystal doors; thence on his head 
A perfect dove descend. Milton. 
To tell; to declare.— Unfold to me why you are heavy. 
Sha/cspeare. —To discover; to reveal. 
Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides, 
Who covers faults, at last with shame derides. Sha/cspeare. 
To release or dismiss from a fold.—The unfolding star 
calls up the shepherd. Sha/cspeare. 
To UNFO'OL, v. a. To restore from folly.—Have you 
any way to unfool me again ? Sha/cspeare. 
UNFORBl'D, or Unforbi'dden, adj. Not prohibited. 
If unforbid thou may’st unfold 
What we, not to explore the secrets, ask 
Of his eternal empire. Milton. 
These are the unforbidden trees; and here we may let 
loose the reins, and indulge our thoughts. A 'orris. 
UNFORBI'DDENNESS, 5 . The state of being unfor¬ 
bidden.—The bravery you are so severe to, is no where ex¬ 
pressly prohibited in Scripture; and this unforbiddenness 
they think sufficient to evince, that the sumptuousness you 
condemn is not in its-own nature sinful. Boyle. 
UNFO'RCED, adj. Not compelled ; not constrained. 
This gentle and unforc'd accord of Hamlet 
Sits smiling to my heart. Sha/cspeare. 
Not impelled; not externally urged. 
No more can impure man retain and move 
In that pure region of a worthy love. 
Than earthly substance can, unforc'd, aspire, 
And leave his nature to converse with fire. Donne, 
Not feigned; not aitificially heightened.—Upon these ti¬ 
dings they broke forth into such in forc'd and unfeigned pas¬ 
sions, as it plainly appeared that good nature did work 111 
them.— Hayward. —Not violent; easy; gradual. 
Windsor the next above the valley swells 
Into my eye,and doth itself present 
With such ail easy and uiforc'd ascent, 
That no stupendous precipice denies 
Access, no horror turns away our eyes. Denham. 
Not contrary to ease.—If one arm is stretched out, £he 
body must be somewhat bowed on the opposite side, in a si¬ 
tuation which is unforc'd. Dryden. 
UNFO'RCIBLE, adj. Wanting strength.—The same 
reason which causeth to yield that they are of some force in 
the one, will constrain to acknowledge, that they are not in 
the other altogether unforcible. Hooker. 
UNFOREBO'DING, adj. Giving no omens. 
Unnumber’d birds glide through th’aerial way. 
Vagrants of air, and unforeboding stray. Pope. 
UNFOREKNOWN, adj. Not foreseen by prescience.— 
It had no less prov’d certain, unforeknown. Milton. 
UNFORESEE'ABLE, adj. Not possible to be foreseen. 
—By such unlikely and unforeseeable ways does Provi¬ 
dence sometimes bring about its greatest designs, in oppo¬ 
sition to the shrewdest conjectures and contrivances of men. 
South. 
UNFORESEEN, adj. Not known before it happened. 
— Unforeseen, they say, is unprepar’d. Dryden. 
UNFO'RESKINNED, adj. Circumcised.—Won by a 
Philistine from the unforeskinn'd race. Milton. 
UNFOREWA'RNED, adj. Not forewarned; not ad¬ 
monished before hand. 
This let him know 
Lest wilfully transgressing he pretend 
Surprisal, unadmonish’d, unforewarn'd. Milton. 
UNFO'RFEITED, adj. Not forfeited.—This was the an- 
tient, and is yet the unforfeited glory of our religion. Ro¬ 
gers. 
UNFORGIVING, adj. Relentless; implacable. 
The sow with her broad snout for rooting up 
Th’ intrusted seed, was judg’d to spoil the crop ; 
The covetous churl, of unforgiving kind, 
Th’ offender to the bloody priest resign’d. Dryden . 
UNFORGO'TTEN, adj. Not lost to memory.—The 
thankful remembrance of so great a benefit received, shall 
for ever remain unforgotten. Knollcs, 
UNFO'RMED, adj. Not modified into regular shape.— 
All putrefaction being a dissolution of the first form, is a 
mere confusion, and unformed mixture of the parts. Bacon. 
UNFORSA'KEN, adj. [unpopq-acen, Saxon.] Not de¬ 
serted.—They extend no farther to any sort of sins continued 
in or unforsaken, than as they are reconcileable with sin¬ 
cere endeavours to forsake them. Hammond. 
UNFO'RTIFIED, adj. Not secured by walls cr bul¬ 
warks. 
Their weak heads, like towns unfortify'd, 
’Twixt sense and nonsense daily change their side. Pope. 
Not strengthened; infirm; weak; feeble. 
It shews a will most incorrect to heaven ; 
A heart unfortify'd, a mind impatient; 
An understanding simple, and nnschool’d. Shakspeare. 
Wanting securities.—They will not restrain a secret mis¬ 
chief, which, considering the unfort fy'd state of mankind, 
is a great defect. Collier. 
UNFO'RTUNATE, adj. Not successful; unprosperous; 
wanting luck; unhappy. It is used both of a train oi 
events, as an unfortunate life; or of a single event, as an 
unfortunate expedition; or of persons, as an unfortunate 
man ; or an unfortunate commander. 
UNFO'RTUNATELY, adv. Unhappily ; without good 
luck.—Unconsulting affection unfortunately born to me- 
wards, made Zelmane borrow so much of her natural 
modesty, as to leave her more decent raiments. Sidney. 
UNFO'RTUNATENESS, adj. Ill luck.—O me, tire 
only subject of the destinies displeasure, whose greatest. 
fortunateness is more unfortunate, than my sister’s greatest 
un fortunateness. Sidney. 
UNFOU'GHT, adj. Not fought.—They used such 
diligence in taking the passages, that it was not possible 
they should escape unfought with. Knollcs. 
UNFOU'LED, adj, Unpolluted; uncorrupted; not 
soiled.—The humour and tunicles are purely transparent, 
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