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—Boiling with an implacable hatred against him. Fo- 
therby. 
UNPLA'CED, adj. Having no place of dependence.— 
TJnplac'd, unpension’d. Pope. 
UNPLA'GUED, adj. Not tormented. 
Ladies, that have your feet 
Unplagu'd with corns, we’ll have a bout with you. 
Shakspcare. 
UNPLA'NTED, adj. Not planted; spontaneous. 
Figs there implanted through the fields do grow, 
Such as fierce Cato did the Romans show. Waller. 
UNPLA'USIBLE, adj. Not plausible; not such as has 
a fair appearance. 
I, under fair pretence of friendly ends. 
And well-plac’d words of glosing courtesy. 
Baited with reasons not implausible. 
Wind me into the easy-hearted man. 
And hug him into snares. Milton. 
UNPLA'USIVE, adj. Not approving. 
Tis like he’ll question me, 
Why such unplausive eyes are bent on him. Shakspeare. 
UNPLEA'DABLE, adj. Not capable to be alleged in 
plea.—It is a blindness brought upon man, because he 
would not see; otherwise all ignorance, that is merely nega¬ 
tive and inculpable presumption, is utterly inconsistent with, 
and makes absolutely unpleadable. South. 
UNPLEA'SANT, adj. Not delighting; troublesome; 
uneasy. 
O sweet Portia! 
Here are a few of the unpleasant'st words 
That ever blotted paper. Shakspeare. 
UNPLEA'SANTLY, ado. Not delightfully; uneasily. 
—We cannot boast of good-breeding, and the art of life; 
but yet we don’t live unpleasantly in primitive simplicity 
and good humour. Pope. 
UNPLEASANTNESS, s. Want of qualities to give 
delight.—All men are willing to skulk out of such company; 
the sober for the hazards, and the jovial for the unpleasant¬ 
ness of it. Gov. of the Tongue. 
UNPLEA'SED, adj. Not pleased ; not delighted. 
Condemn’d to live with subjects ever mute, 
A salvage prince, unpleas'd, though absolute. Dryden. 
UNPLEA'SING, adj. Offensive; disgusting; giving 
no delight.—Hence the many mistakes, which have made 
learning so unpleasing and so unsuccessful. Milton. 
UNPLEA'SINGNESS, s. Want of qualities to please. 
—It being an unseemly affront to the sequestered and veiled 
modesty of that sex, to have her unpleasingness bandied 
up and down, and aggravated, in open court. Milton. 
UNPLEA'SIVE, adj. Not pleasing.—Grief is never 
but an unpleasive passion ; the rest have some life and con¬ 
tentment in them. Bp. Hall. 
UNPLI'ANT, adj. Not easily bent; not conforming to 
the will.—The chisel hath more glory than the pencil; 
that being so hard an instrument, and working upon so un- 
pliant stuff, can yet leave strokes of so gentle appearance. 
Wotton. 
TJNPLO'WED, adj. Not plowed. Good sound land, 
that hath lain long unplowed. Mortimer. 
To UNPLU'ME, v. a. To strip of plumes; to degrade. 
—In the most ordinary phsenomena in nature, we shall find 
enough to shame confidence, and unplume dogmatizing. 
Glanville. 
UNPOE'TICAL, or Unpoe'tick, adj. Not as becomes 
a poet. 
Nor for an epithet that fails, 
Bite off your unpoetick nails. 
Unjust! why you shou’d in such veins, 
Reward your fingers for your brains? Bp. Corbet. 
UNPOE'TICALLY, adv. In a manner unbecoming a 
poet.—How coldly and unpoetical/y Pope has copied the 
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appeal to the nymphs on the death of Daphnis, in compa¬ 
rison of Milton on Lycidas ! Dr. Wart,on. 
UNPO'INTED, adj. Having no point or sting.—The 
conclusion,—here, would have shewn dull, flat, and un¬ 
pointed; without any shape or sharpness. B. Jonson. — 
Not observing punctuation.— Clumsy verse unlick’d, un¬ 
pointed. Dryden. 
To UNPO'ISON, v. a. To remove poison from.—Such 
a course could not, but in a short time, have unpoisoned 
their perverted minds. South. 
UNPO'IZED, adj. Wanting equipoise. 
Oft on the brink of ruin- 
Totter’d the rash democracy unpoiz'd. Thomson. 
UNPO'LISIIED, adj. Not smoothed; not brightened 
by attrition.—Palladio, having noted in an old arch at Vero¬ 
na, some part of the materials cut in line forms, and some 
unpolislid, doth conclude, that the antients did leave the out¬ 
ward face of their marbles, or free-stone, without any sculp¬ 
ture, till they were laid in the body of the building. 
Wotton. —Not civilized; not refined. 
Those first unpolish'd matrons, big and bold, 
Gave suck to infants of gigantick mould. Dryden. 
UNPOLI'TE, adj. [impoli, Fr.; impolitus, Lat.] Not 
elegant; not refined; not civil.—Discourses for the pulpit 
should be cast into a plain method, and the reasons ranged 
under the words, first, secondly, and thirdly ; however they 
may be now fancied to sound unpolite, or unfashionable. 
Watts. 
UNPOLI'TENESS, s. Want of elegance.—Sad outcries 
are made of the unpoliteness of the style. Blackmail. — 
Want of courtesy or civility. 
UNPO'LLED, adj. Unplundered. 
Richer than unpoll'd 
Arabian wealth and Indian gold. Fanshaw. 
Not registered as a voter. 
UNPOLLUTED, adj. [ impollutus, Lat.] Not cor¬ 
rupted; not defiled. 
Lay her i’ th’ earth; 
And from her fair and unpolluted flesh 
May violets spring! Shakspeare. 
UNPO'PULAR, adj. Not fitted to please the people.— 
The practices of these men, under the covert of feigned zeal, 
made the appearance of sincere devotion ridiculous and un¬ 
popular. Addison. 
UNPOPULA'RITY, s. Want of qualities to please the 
people.—You are afraid of the unpopularity of the ground. 
Ld. Lyttelton. 
UNPO'RTABLE, adj. Not fo be carried.—Had their 
cables of iron chains had any great length, they had been 
unportable ; aud being short, the ships must have sunk at an 
anchor in any stream of weather or counter-tide. Ralegh. 
UNPO'RTIONED, adj. Not endowed with a fortune. 
Has virtue charms ? I grant her heavenly fair; 
But if unportion'd, all will interest wed ; 
Though that our admiration, this our choice. Young. 
UNPO'RTUOUS, adj. Having no ports.—Had the west 
of Ireland been an unportuous coast, the French naval pow¬ 
er would have been undone. Burke. 
UNPOSSE'SSED, adj. Not had; not held; not en¬ 
joyed. 
He claims the crown- 
—Is the chair empty ? is the sword unsway’d ? 
js the king dead ? the empire unpossess'd ? Shakspeare. 
UNPOSSE'SSING, adj. Having no possession. 
Thou unpossessing bastard, dost thou think, 
That I would stand against thee ? Shakspeare. 
UNPO'SSIBLE, adj. Not possible. In modern editions 
of the Bible the word is finically altered to impossible. — 
With men this is unpossible; but with God all things are 
possible. St. Matt. 
UNPRA'CTICABLE, adj. Not feasible; not practi 
cable.—I try’d such of the things that came into m" 
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