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ravelling of the intrigue commences, when the reader begins 
to see the doubts cleared up. Pope. 
To UNRA'VEL, v. n. To be unfolded. 
In an eternity what scenes shall strike! 
Adventures thicken ! novelties surprise! 
What webs of wonder shall unravel there! Young. 
UNRA'ZORED, adj. Unshaven.'—As smooth as Hebe’s 
their unrazor d lips. Milton. 
UNRE'ACHED, adj. Not attained. 
Labour with unequal force to climb 
That lofty hill, unreach'd by former time. Dry den. 
UNREAD, adj. Not read ; not publicly pronounced.— 
These books are safer and better to be left publicly unread. 
Hooker. —Untaught; not learned in books. 
Uncertain whose the narrower span, 
The clown unread, or half-read gentleman. Dry den. 
UNRE'ADINESS, s. Want of readiness; want of 
promptness.—This impreparation and unreadiness, when 
they find in us, then turn it to the soothing up of themselves 
in that accursed fancy. Hooker. —Want of preparation.— 
Nothing is so great an enemy to tranquillity and a contented 
spirit, as the amazement and confusions of unreadiness and 
inconsideration. Bp. Taylor. 
UNRE'ADY, adj. Not prepared; not fit. 
The fairy knight 
Departed thence, albe (his woundes wide 
Not thoroughly heal’d) unready were to ride. Spenser . 
Not prompt; not quick.—From a temperate inactivity, 
we are unready to put in execution the suggestions of reason; 
or by a content in every species of truth, we embrace the 
shadow thereof. Brown. —Awkward; ungain.—Young 
men, in the conduct of actions, use extreme remedies at first, 
and, that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or 
retract them ; like an unready horse, that will neither stop 
nor turn. Bacon. —Undressed. Obsolete. 
All. How now, my lords? what all unready so ? 
Bast. Unready ?■ ay, and glad we’ve ’scaped so well. 
Shakspcare. 
UNREAL, adj. Unsubstantial; having only appearance. 
Hence, terrible shadow! 
Unreal mockery, hence! Shakspeare. 
UNREAPED, adj. Not reaped ; uncut. 
To stay the thunder, or forbid the hail 
To thresh the unreap'd ear. Carew. 
UNREASONABLE, adj. Not agreeable to reason.— 
It is unreasonable for men to be judges in their own cases; 
self-love will make men partial to themselves and their 
friends. Locke.- —Exorbitant; claiming or insisting on more 
than is fit.—Since every language is so full of its own pro¬ 
prieties, that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous in 
another, it would be unreasonable to limit a translator to 
the narrow compass of his author’s words. Dryden .— 
Greater than is fit; immoderate.—Those that place their 
hope in another world, have, in a great measure, conquered 
the dread of death, and unreasonable love of life. Atter- 
hury. —Irrational. 
UNREASONABLENESS, s. Inconsistency with rea¬ 
son.—The unreasonableness and presumption of those 
that thus project, have not so much as a thought, all their 
lives long to advance so far as attrition. Hammond. —Ex¬ 
orbitance ; excessive demand.—The unreasonableness of 
the propositions is not more evident, than that they are not 
the joint desires of their major number. King Charles. 
UNREASONABLY, adv. In a manner contrary to 
reason.— Unreasonably disposed to give a fairer hearing to 
a Pagan philosopher, than to a Christian writer. Addison. 
—'More than enough. 
I’ll not over the threshold till my lord return from the wars. 
—Fye! you confine yourself most unreasonably. 
Shakspeare. 
To UNREAVE, v. a. [now .unravel, from un and reave, 
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or ravel, perhaps the same with rive, to tear, or break 
asunder.] To unwind; to disentangle. 
Penelope, for her Ulysses’ sake, 
Devis’d a web her wooers to deceive; 
In which the work that she all day did make 
The same at night she did unreave. Spenser « 
Not to tear asunder; not to rive; not to unroof.—Couldst 
thou think that a cottage not too strongly built, and standing 
so bleak in the very mouth of the winds, could for any long 
time hold right and unreaved ? Bp. Hall. 
UNRELATED, adj. Not blunted.-—A number of fencers 
try it out with unrebated swords. Hakewill. 
UNREBU'KABLE, adj. Obnoxious to no censure.— 
Keep this commandment without spot, unrebukable, until 
the appearing of Christ. 1 Tim. 
UN RECEIVED, adj. Not received.—Where the signs 
and sacraments of his grace are not, through contempt, un- 
received, or received with contempt, they really give what 
they promise, and are what they signify. Hooker. 
UNRE'CLAIMED, adj. Not tamed. 
A savageness of unreclaimed blood, 
Of general assault. Shakspeare. 
Not reformed.—This is the mbst favourable treatment 
a sinner can hope for who continues unreclaimed by the 
goodness of God. Rogers. 
UNRECONCI'LABLE, adj. Not to be appeased; im¬ 
placable. 
Let me lament, 
That our stars unreconcilable, should have divided 
Our equalness to this. Shakspeare. 
Not to be made consistent with.—He had many infirmities 
and sins, unreconcilable with perfect righteousness. Ham¬ 
mond. 
UNRE'CONCILED, adj. Not reconciled. 
If you bethink yourself of any crime 
Unreconcil'd as yet to heav’n and grace. 
Solicit for it straight. Shakspeare. 
UNRECORDED, adj. Not kept in remembrance by 
public monuments. 
Unrecorded left through many an age. 
Worthy to have not remain’d so long unsung. Milton. 
UNRECOVERABLE, adj. Not to be recovered ; past 
recovery.—Irresolution loosens all the joints of state: like 
an ague, it shakes not this or that limb, but all the body is 
at once in a fit. ’Tis the dead palsy, that, without almost a 
miracle, leaves a man unrecoverable. Felt ham. 
UNRECO'VERED, adj. Not recovered.—The only 
cause of unrecover'd spoil. Drayton. 
UNRECO'UNTED, adj. Not told ; not related. 
This is yet but young, and may be left 
To some ears unrecounted. Shakspeare - 
UNRECRU'ITABLE, adj. Incapable of repairing the 
deficiencies of an army.—Empty and unrecruitable colonels 
of twenty men in a companv. Milton. 
UNRECU'RING, adj. Irremediable. 
I found her straying in the park, 
Seeking to hide herself; as doth the deer. 
That hath received some unrecuring wound. Shakspeare. 
UNRE'DUCED, adj. Not reduced.—The earl divided 
all the rest of the Irish countries unreduced into shires. 
Davies. 
UNREDU'CIBLE, adj. Not reducible. Ash. 
UNREDU'CIBLENESS, s. Impossibility of being re¬ 
duced.—A third property of matters belonging to Chris¬ 
tianity, and which also renders them mysterious, is, their 
strangeness and unreducibleness to the common methods 
and observations of nature. South. 
UNREFINED, adj. Not refined. 
No mines are current; unrejin'd and gross. 
Coals make the sterling, nature but the dross. Cleveland. 
UNREFO'RMABLE, adj. Not to be put into a new 
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