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Her offence 
Must be of such unnatural degree. 
That monsters it. Sha/cspeare. 
Acting without the affections implanted by nature. 
Rome, whose gratitude 
Tow’rds her deserving children, is enroll’d 
In Jove’s own book, like an unnatural dam. 
Should now eat up her own. Shakspeare. 
Forced; not agreeable to the real state of persons or 
things; not representing nature.—In an heroic poem, two 
kinds of thoughts are carefully to be avoided ; the first, are 
such as are affected and unnatural; the second, such as are 
mean and vulgar. Addison. 
To UNNA'TURALIZE, v. a. To divest of the affec¬ 
tions implanted by nature.—‘Here he strives, as it were, to 
unnaturalize himself, and lay by his natural sweetness of 
disposition, almost to forget common humanity. Hales. 
UNNATURALLY, adv. In opposition to nature.— 
All the world have been frighted with an apparition of their 
own fancy, or they have most unnaturally conspired to 
cozen themselves. Tillotson. 
UNNA'TURALNESS, s. Contrariety to nature.—The 
God, which is the God of nature, doth never teach unna¬ 
turalness. Sidney. 
UNNA'VIGABLE, adj. Not to be passed by vessels; 
not to be navigated. 
Pindar’s unnacigable song. 
Like a swift stream from mountains pours along. Cowley. 
UNNA’VIGATED, adj. Not sailed over. Mason .—I 
could venture to traverse a far greater space of sea, till then 
unnavigated. Cook. 
UNNE'CESSARILY, adv. Without necessity; with¬ 
out need ; needlessly.—These words come in without any 
connexion with the story, and consequently unnecessarily. 
Broome. 
UNNE'CESSARINESS, s. Needlessness.—These are 
such extremes as afford no middle for industry to exist, hope 
being equally out-dated by the desperateness or unneces¬ 
sariness of an undertaking. Dec. ojf Chr. Piety. 
UNNE'CESSARY, adj. Needless; not wanted; useless. 
—Let brave spirits, fitted for command by sea or land, not 
be laid by, as persons unnecessary for the time. Bacon. 
UNNEE'DFUL, adj. Not wanted ; needless.—The text 
was not unneedful. Milton. 
UNNE'IGHBOURLY, adj. Not kind; not suitably to 
the duties of a neighbour.—Parnassus is but a barren 
mountain, and its inhabitants make it more so, by their 
unneighhourly deportment. Garth. 
UNNE'IGHBOURLY, adv. In a manner not suitable 
to a neighbour ; with malevolence; with mutual mischief. 
These two Christian armies might combine 
The blood of malice in a vein of league, 
And not to spend it so unneighhourly. Shakspeare. 
UNNE'RVATE, adj. Weak; feeble. A had word.— 
Scaliger calls them fine and lively in Musaeus; but abject, 
unnervate, and unharmonious in Homer. Broome. 
To UNNE'RVE, v. a. To weaken ; to enfeeble.—The 
precepts are often so minute and full of circumstances, that 
they weaken and unnerve his verse. Addison. 
UNNE'RVED, adj. Weak; feeble. 
Pyrrhus at Priam drives, in rage strikes wide; 
But with the whiff and wind of his fell sword, 
Th’ unnerv'd father falls. Shakspeare. 
UNNE'TH, or Unne'thes, adv. [This is from un and 
eaS, Saxon, easy, and ought therefore to be written uneath ; 
which see.] Scarcely; hardly; not without difficulty. 
Obsolete. 
Diggon, I am so stifle and stanke. 
That unneth I may stand any more ; 
And how the western wind bloweth sore, 
Beating the wither'd leaf from the tree. Spenser. 
Vo l. XXIV. No. 1649. 
UNNO’BLE, adj. Mean; ignominious; ignoble. 
I have offended reputation; 
A most unnoble swerving. Shakspeare. 
UNNO'BLY, adv. Meanly ; ignobly.—You do the 
most unnohly to be angry. Beaum. and FI. 
UNNOTED, adj. Not observed; not regarded; not 
heeded. 
They may jest, 
’Till their own scorn return to them unnoted. Shakspeare. 
Not honoured. 
A shameful fate now hides my hopeless head. 
Unwept, unnoted, and for ever dead. • Pope. 
UNNOTICED, adj. Not observed; not taken notice of. 
The loyal bee, the spider that beneath 
Some lowly rafter weaves her fine-spun woof. 
And millions more, that in this ample world. 
Unnotic'd, and unnam’d, claim each his place, 
God’s general plan fulfil. Roberts. 
UNNU'MBERED, adj. Innumerable. 
The skies are painted with unnumber'd sparks; 
They are all fire, and every one doth shine. Shakspeare, 
UNNU'RTURED, adj. Not nurtured ; not educated.— 
The most ignorant, clouded, unnurtured brain amongst you 
may reap some profit from this discourse. Hammond. 
UNOBE'YED, adj. Not obeyed. 
Not leave 
Unworshipp’d, unnobey'd, the throne supreme. Milton. 
UNOBJE'CTED, adj. Not charged as a fault, or con¬ 
trary argument.—What will he leave unobjected to Luther, 
when he makes it his crime that he defied the devil. Atter- 
bury. 
UNOBJECTIONABLE, adj. Not to be objected 
against.—A translation that should be unobjectionable to 
my brethren of the Roman-Catholic communion. Dr. 
Geddes. 
UNOBNO'XIOUS, adj. Not liable; not exposed to any 
hurt. 
In fight they stood 
Unwearied, unobnoxious to be pain’d. Milton. 
UNOBSCU'RED, adj. Not obscured; not darkened. 
O, who can speak the vigorous joys of health, 
Unclogg’d the body, unobscur'd the mind! Thomson. 
UNOBSE'QUIOUSNESS, s. Incompliance; disobe¬ 
dience.—They make one man’s particular failings, confining 
laws to others; and convey them, as such, to their succeed¬ 
ed, who are bold to misname all unobsequiousness to their 
incogitancy, presumption. Brown. 
UNOBSE'RVABLE, adj. Not to be observed; not dis¬ 
coverable.—A piece of glass reduced to powder, the same 
which, when entire, freely transmitted the beams of light, 
acquiring by contusion, a multitude of minute surfaces, 
reflects, in a confused manner, little and singly unobservable 
images of the lucid body, that from a diaphanous, it dege¬ 
nerates into a white body.— Boyle. 
UNOBSE'RVANCE, s. Inattention; regardlessness.— 
Among those uncontroulable levellers of the world, fate or 
fortune in the profane lexicon, and in the Christian’s undis¬ 
covered providence, may pass for the first; opinion, and 
time or the grave, for the other two. The two first require 
the more serious inquiry into, for the universality of their 
power, and yet general unobservance of it. Whitlock. 
UNOBSE'RVANT, adj. Not obsequious. Not atten¬ 
tive.—The unobservant multitude may have some general, 
confused apprehensions of a beauty, that gilds the outside 
frame of the universe. Glanville. 
UNOBSE'RVED, adj. Not regarded; not attended to; 
not heeded ; not minded.—The motion in the minute parts 
of any solid body, which is the principal cause of violent 
motion, though unobserved, passeth without sound. Bacon. 
UNOBSE'RVEDLY, adv. Without being observed.—It 
seems to me more likely, that he went thither secretly and 
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