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U'NIVERSE, s. [ univers , Fr.; universum, Lat.] The 
general system of things. 
Creeping murmur, and the poring dark, 
Fills the wide vessel of the universe. Shakspeare. 
UNIVE'RSITY, s. [universitas, Lat.] University was 
first used for any community or corporation; afterwards 
confined to academies. Anderson on Commerce. —A school, 
where all the arts and sciences are taught and studied.— 
While I play the good husband at home, my son and ser¬ 
vants spend all at the university. Shakspeare. —The 
whole; the universe. Obsolete. 
The great womb 
From whence all things in die university 
Yclad in divers forms do gaily bloom, 
And after fade away. More. 
UNl'VOCAL, adj. [univocus, Lat.] Having one mean¬ 
ing.— Univocal words are such as signify but one idea, or 
but one sort of thing : equivocal words are such as signify 
two or more different ideas, or different sorts of objects. 
Watts. —Certain; regular; pursuing always one tenor.— 
This conceit makes putrefactive generations correspondent 
unto seminal productions; and conceives inequivocal effects, 
and univocal conformity unto the efficient. Brown. 
UNIV'OCALLY, adv. In one term ; in one sense.— 
How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, 
if the venial be not sin ? Bp. Hall. —In one tenor.—All 
creatures are generated univocally by parents of their own 
kind; there is no such thing as spontaneous generation. Bay. 
UNIVOC'ATIOJN, s. [unus and vocatus, Lat.] Agree¬ 
ment of name and meaning.—The univocation of Tartar 
cities with those of Israel. Whiston. 
UNJU'ST, adj. [injuste, Fr.; injustus, Lat.] Iniqui¬ 
tous; contrary to equity; contrary to justice. It is used 
both of persons and things. 
I should forge 
Quarrels unjust against the good and loyal. 
Destroying them for wealth. Shakspeare. 
UNJU'STIFIABLE, adj. Not to be defended ; not to be 
justified.—If we could look into effects, we might pronounce 
boldly; but for a man to give his opinion of what he sees 
but in part, is an unjustifiable piece of rashness. Addison. 
UNJU'STIFIABLENESS, s. The quality of not being 
justifiable.—When it is unlawful upon the unjustifiableness 
of the ground, we sin in it till we put an end to it. Ket- 
tlewe/l. 
UNJU'STIFIABLY, adv. In a manner not to be de¬ 
fended. 
UNJU'STIFIED, adj. Not cleared from the imputation 
of guilt; not justified. 
I go 
Unjustijied for ever from your sight. Dryden. 
UNJU'STLY, adv. In a manner contrary to right. 
If aught against my life 
Thy country sought of thee, it sought unjustly. Milton. 
U'NKED, or U'nkid, adj. Unusual; odd; strange.— A 
physician must practice according to the actions of physick; 
—he must not minister after any unked manner, but onely 
according to the usual and ordinarie opinion of the learned 
in physick. Abstract of Acts. —Lonely; solitary. A 
provincial expression. 
UNKEL, a small town of the Prussian province of the 
Lower Rhine, on the east bank of the Rhine; 25 miles south- 
south-east of Cologne. 
UNKE'MMED, or Unk'empt, adj. [ incomptus , Lat.] 
Uncombed.—Laden she is with long unlcemmed hairs. 
May. —U n polished. 
Thenot, to that l chose thou dost me tempt; 
But ah! too well I wot my humble veine. 
And how my rimes been rugged and unkempt. Spenser. 
To UNKE'NNEL, v. a. To drive from his hole.—I 
warrant you, colonel, we’ll unkennel him. Dryden. —To 
rouse from its secrecy or retreat. 
V N K 
If his occult guilt 
Do not itself unkennel in one speech. 
It is a damned ghost that we have seen. Shakspeare . 
UNKENT, adj. Unknown. Obsolete. 
Go, little book, thyself present, 
As child whose parent is unkent. 
To him, that is the president 
Of nobleness and chivalrie. Spenser. 
UNKE'PT, adj. Not kept; not retained. Unobserved; 
unobeyed.—Many things kept generally heretofore, are now 
in like sort generally unkept, and abolished every where. 
Hooker. 
UNKI'ND, adj. Not favourable; not benevolent. 
In nature there’s no blemish but the mind; 
None can be call’d deform’d, but the unkind. Shakspeare. 
Unnatural. 
They, however shameful and unkinde. 
Yet did possesse their horrible intent. Spenser. 
UNKI'NDLINESS, s. Unfavourableness.—I have often 
heard the chief of our city complaining of the unfruitfulness 
of the earth, and sometimes again of the unkindliness of the 
weather, now for a good space hurtful to the fruits. Hake - 
•will. 
UNKINDLY, adj. Unnatural; contrary to nature. 
They with their filthiness. 
Polluted this same gentle soil long time, 
That their own mother loath’d their beastliness, 
And gan abhor her brood’s unkindly crime, 
All were they born of her own native slime. Spenser. 
Malignant; unfavourable. 
The goddess, that in rural shrine, 
Dwell’st here with Pan, or Sylvan, by blest song 
Forbidding every bleak, unkindly fog. 
To touch the prosperous growth of this tall wood. Milton. 
UNKINDLY, adv. Without kindness; without affection. 
The herd, unkindly wise, 
Or chaces him from thence, or from him flies. Denham. 
Contrarily to nature. 
All works of nature. 
Abortive, monstrous, or unkindly mixed. Milton. 
UNKI'NDNESS, s. Malignity; ill-will; want of affection. 
To UNKING, v. a. To deprive of royalty. 
It takes the force of law: how then, my lord! 
If as they would unking my father now, 
To make you way. Southern. 
UNKI'NGLIKE, or Unki'ngly, adj. Unbecoming a 
king; base; ignoble. — The unkingly thirst of gold. Thom¬ 
son. 
UNKI'SSED, adj. Not kissed.—Foul words are but foul 
wind, and foul wind is but foul breath, and foul breath is 
noisome; therefore I will depart unkist. Shakspeare. 
UNKLE, or U'ncle, s. [ oncle , Fr.] The brother of a 
father or mother. 
UNKNl'GHTLY, adj. Unbecoming a knight. 
To UNKNl'T, v. a. [unenycan, Sax., solvere .] To un¬ 
weave ; to separate. 
Would he had continued to his country 
As he began, and not unknit himself 
The noble knot he made. Shakspeare. 
UNKNl'T, part. adj. Not united; not knit. 
The petty brawls and quarrels, 
Late urg’d betwixt ihe Alberti and your family. 
Must, yes and shall, like tender unknit joints, 
Fasten again together of themselves. Beaum. and FI. 
UNKNO'TTED, aclj. Freed from knots; untwisted; 
unentangled.—All simple, single, pure, pervious, unknotted. 
More.—Unknotted twine. Dyer. 
UNKNO'TTY, adj. Having no knots.— Unknotty fir. 
Sandys. 
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