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I should not now unprofitable/ spend 
Myself in words, or catch at empty hope. 
By airy ways, for solid certainties. B.Jonson. 
UNPRO'FITED, adj. Having no gain. 
Be clamorous, and leap all civil bounds, 
Rather than make unprofited return. Shakspeare. 
UNPROJE'CTED, adj. Not planned; not formed in 
the mind. 
UNPROLI'FIC, adj. Barren; not productive.—Great 
rains drown many insects, and render their eggs unprolific, 
or destroy them. Hale. 
UNPRO'MISING, adj. Giving no promise of excellence; 
haying no appearance of value.—If he be naturally listless 
and dreaming, this unpromising disposition is none of the 
easiest to be dealt with. Locke. 
UNPRO'MPTED, adj. Not dictated. 
Oh no, we must not, will not, cannot part; 
And my tongue talks, unprompted by my heart. Congreve. 
UNPRONO'UNCED, adj. Not uttered; not spoken. 
Imperfect words, with childish trips, 
Half unpronounc'd, slide through my infant lips. Milton. 
UNPRO'PER, adj. Not peculiar. 
Millions nightly lie in those unproper beds. 
Which they dare swear peculiar. Shakspeare. 
Unfit; not right. 
UNPRO'PERLY, adv. Contrarily to propriety'; impro¬ 
perly. 
I kneel before thee, and unproperly 
Shew duty as mistaken all the while 
Between the child and parent. Shakspeare. 
UNPROPHE'TICAL, or Unprophe'tic, adj. Not fore¬ 
seeing or foretelling future events.-—How unprophetical 
would it be, to say they should some time know what they 
already knew. Ellis. 
UNPROPI'TIOUS, adj. Not favourable; inauspicious. 
’Twas when the dog-star’s unpropitious ray 
Smote ev’ry brain, and wither’d ev’ry bay, 
gick was the sun. Pope. 
UNPROPO'RTIONABLE, adj. Not suitable; not such 
as is fit.—I wish the present caution may be more attended 
to, not to bestow an unproportionable part of our time or 
value on this slight exercise of man’s slightest faculty. Gov. 
of the Tongue. 
UNPROPO'RTIONATE, adj. Not proportioned; not 
suited.—It [to raise the dead] is an act beyond the activity 
of any creature, and unproportionate to the power of any 
finite agent. Pearson. 
UNPRQPO'RTIONED, adj. Not suited to something 
else. 
Give thy thoughts no tongue. 
Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. Shakspeare. 
UNPROPO'SED, adj. Not proposed.—The means are 
unpropos'd. Dry&en. 
UNPRO'PPED, adj. Not supported; not upheld. 
The fatal fang drove deep within his thigh, 
And cut the nerves; the nerves no more sustain 
The bulk; the bulk, unpropp'd, falls headlong on the plain. 
Dryden. 
UNPRO'SPEROUS, adj. [improsper, Lat.] Unfortu¬ 
nate ; not prosperous. 
Nought nnprosp'rous shall thy ways attend, 
Born with good omens, and with heav’n thy friend. Pope. 
UNPRO'SPEROUSLY, adv. Unsuccessfully.—When a 
prince fights justly, and yet unprosperously, if he could see 
all those reasons for which God hath so ordered it, he would 
think it the most reasonable thing in the world. Bp. 
Taylor. 
UNPRO'SPEROUSNESS, s. State of being unprosper- 
ous.-—The unprosperousness of the arm of flesh, the several 
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failings of the second causes which we have idolized so often- 
Hammond. 
UNPROTECTED, adj. Not protected; not supported ; 
not defended.—By woeful experience, they both did learn, 
that to forsake the true God of heaven, is to fall into all such 
evils upon the face of the earth, as men, either destitute of 
grace divine, may commit, or unprotected from above, en¬ 
dure. Hooker. 
UNPRO'VED, adj. Not tried; not known by trial. 
There I found a fresh, unproved knight, 
Whose manly hands, imbru’d in guilty blood, 
Had never been. Spenser. 
Not evinced by argument.—There is much of what should 
be demonstrated, left unproved by those chymical experi¬ 
ments. Boyle. 
To UNPROVI'DE, v. a. To divest of resolution or qua¬ 
lifications; to unfurnish. 
I’ll not expostulate with her, lest 
Her beauty unprovide my mind again. Shakspeare. 
UNPROVI'DED, adj. Not secured or qualified by pre¬ 
vious measures.—Where shall I find one that can steal well ? 
O, for a fine thief of two-and-twenty, or thereabout; I am 
heinously unprovided. Shakspeare. —Not furnished; not 
previously supplied.—Those unprovided of tackling and 
victual, are forced to sea. King Charles. —The seditious 
had neither weapons, order, nor counsel; but being in all 
things unprovided , were slain like beasts. Hayward. 
UNPROVO'KED, adj. Not provoked. 
The teeming earth, yet guiltless of the plough, 
And unpravok'd, did fruitful stores allow. Dryden. 
UNPROVO'KING, adj. Giving no offence.—I stabbed 
him a stranger, unprovoking, inoffensive. Fleetwood. 
UNPRUDE'NTIAL, adj. Imprudent.—The most un¬ 
wise and unprudential act as to civil government. Milton. 
UNPRU'NED, adj. Not cut; not lopped. 
The whole land is full of weeds; 
Her fruit trees all unprun'd. Shakspeare. 
UNPU'BLIC, adj. Private; not generally known, or 
seen.—Virgins must be retired and unpublic: for all free¬ 
dom of society is a violence done to virginity, not in its 
natural, but in its moral capacity; that is, it loses part of its 
severity and strictness, by publishing that person, whose 
work is religion, whose thoughts must dwell in heaven. 
Bp. Taylor. 
UNPU'BLISHED, adj. Secret; unknown. 
All blest secrets; 
All you unpublish'd virtues of the earth, 
Spring with my tears. Shakspeare. 
Not given to the public.—Apply your care wholly to 
those which are unpublish'd. Pope. 
UNPU'NISHED, adj. \impunitus, Lat.] Not punished; 
suffered to continue in impunity. 
The vent’rous victor, march’d unpunish'd hence, 
And seem’d to boast his fortunate offence. Dryden. 
UNPU'RCHASED, adj. Unbought. 
Unpurchas'd plenty our full tables loads, 
And part of what they lent, return t’ our gods. Denham. 
UNPU'RE, adj. Not clean; not pure.—Of so unpure 
constitutions, that we can present no object but sin. Donne. 
UNPU'RGED, adj. Not purged; unpurified. 
Is Brutus sick ? 
And will he steal out of his wholesome bed, 
To tempt the rheumy and unpurged air, 
To add unto his sickness ? Shakspeare. 
UNPU'RIFIED, adj. Not freed from recrement.—Not 
cleansed from sin.—Our sinful nation having been long in 
the furnace, is now come out, but unpurified. Dec. of 
Chr. Piety. 
UNPU'RPOSED, adj. Not designed; not intentional. 
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