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UNREVE'RSED, adj. Not revoked ; not repealed. 
She hath offer’d to the doom, 
Which unreversed stands in effectual force, 
A sea of melting tears. Shakspeare. 
UNREVO'KED, adj. Not recalled.—Hear my decree, 
which unrcvok'd shall stand. Milton. 
UNREWA'RDED, adj. Not rewarded; not recom¬ 
pensed.—Providence takes care that good offices may not 
pass unrewarded. L'Estrange. 
To UNRI'DDLE, v. a. To solve an enigma ; to explain 
a problem. 
Some kind power unriddle where it lies. 
Whether my heart be faulty, or her eyes! Suckling. 
The Platonick principles will not unriddle the doubt. 
Glanville. 
UNRI'DDLER, s. One who solves an enigma. 
Ye safe unriddlers of the stars, pray tell, 
By what name shall I stamp my miracle ? Lovelace. 
UNRIDI'CULOUS, adj. Not ridiculous.—If an indif¬ 
ferent and unridicu/ous object could draw this austereness 
unto a smile, he hardly could with perpetuity resist proper 
motives thereof. Brown. 
To UNRI'G, v. a. To strip of the tackle. 
Rhodes is the sovereign of the sea no more; 
Their ships unrigg'd, and spent their naval store. Dry den. 
UNRI'GHT, adj. [unpipe, Sax.] Wrong.—Shew that 
thy judgment is not unright. Wisdom. 
UNRI'GHTEOUS, adj. [unpihtjnp, Sax. See Right¬ 
eous.] Unjust; wicked; sinful; bad. 
Within a month! 
Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears, 
Had left the flushing in her galled eyes. 
She married.—Oh most wicked speed! Shalcspeare. 
UNRI'GHTEOUSLY, adv. Unjustly; wickedly; sin¬ 
fully. —A man may fall undeservedly under public disgrace, 
or is unrighteously oppressed. Collier. 
UNRI'GHTEOUSNESS, s. [unpihtpij-neppe, Saxon.] 
Wickedness; injustice.—Some things have a natural defor¬ 
mity in them, as perjury, perfidiousness, unrighteousness , 
and ingratitude. Tillotson. 
UNRI'GHTFUL, adj. Not rightful; not just. 
Thou, which know’st the way 
To plant unrightful kings, wilt know again 
To pluck him headlong from th’ usurped throne. 
Shalcspeare. 
To UNRI'NG, v. a. To deprive of a ring. 
Be forc’d to impeach a broken hedge, 
And pigs unring'd at vis. franc, pledge. Hudibras. 
UNRI'OTED, adj. Free from rioting; not disgraced 
by riot. 
A chaste unrioted house, and never stain’d 
With her lord’s fortune. May. 
To UNRI'P, v. a. [This word is improper; there being 
no difference between rip and unrip. ] To cut open. 
Like a traitor. 
Didst break that vow, and, with thy treach’rous blade, 
Unrip'(1st the bowels of thy sov’reign’s son. Shakspeare. 
UNRI'PE, adj. [unpipe, Sax.] Immature; not fully 
concocted. 
Purpose is of violent birth, but poor validity; 
Which now, like fruits unripe, sticks on the tree, 
But fall unshaken when they mellow be. Shakspeare. 
Not seasonable; not yet proper. 
He fix’d his unripe vengeance to defer, 
Sought not the garden, but retir’d unseen, 
To brood in secret on his gather’d spleen. Dryden. 
Too early.—Who hath not heard of the valiant, wise, and 
just Dorilaus, whose unripe death doth yet, so many years 
since, draw tears from virtuous eyes? Sidney. 
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UNRI'PENED, adj. Not matured. 
Were you w.th these, you’d soon forget 
The pale, unripen'd beauties of the north. Addison. 
UNRI'PENESS, s. Immaturity; want of ripeness.—The 
ripeness, or unripeness, of the occasion, must ever be well 
weighed; and generally it is good to commit the beginnings 
of all great actions to Argus, with his hundred eyes; and the 
ends to Briareus, with his hundred hands. Bacon. 
UNRI'VALLED, adj. Having no competitor. 
Honour forbid! at whose unrivall'd shrine. 
Ease, pleasure, virtue, all our sex resign. Pope. 
Having no peer or equal. 
To UNRI'VET, v. a. To, unfasten the rivets of; to 
loosen.—There was a necessity to unrivet those usurpations. 
Bale. 
To UNRO'BE, v. a. To undress; to disrobe.—When, 
on the exit, souls are bid to unrobe. Young. 
To UNRO'L, v. a. To open what is rolled or convolved. 
O horror! 
The queen of nations, from her ancient seat. 
Is sunk for ever in the dark abyss; 
Time has unroll'd her glories to the last, 
And now clos’d up the volume. Dryden. 
UNROMA'NTICK, adj. Contrary to romance.—It is a 
base, unromantick spirit not to wait on you. Swift. 
To UNRO'OF, v. a. To strip off the roof or covering 
of houses. 
The rabble should have first unroof'd the city, 
Ere so prevail’d with me. Shakspeare. 
UNRO'OSTED, adj. Driven from the roost. 
Thou dotard ! thou art woman-tir’d, unroosted, 
By thy old dame Partlet here. Shakspeare. 
To UNRO'OT, v. a. To tear from the roots; to ex¬ 
tirpate; to eradicate. 
Unroot the forest oaks, and bear away 
Flocks, folds, and trees, an undistinguish’d prey. Dryden. 
To UNRO'OT, v. n. To be unrooted. 
Make their strengths totter, and their topless fortunes 
Unroot and reel to ruin. Beaum. and FI. 
UNRO'UGH, adj. [unpuh,Sax.; non hirsuties .] Smooth; 
unbearded. 
Siward’s son, 
And many unrough youths, that even now 
Protest their first of manhood. Shakspeare. 
UNRO'UNDED, adj. Not shaped; not cut to a round. 
Those unfil’d pistolets, 
That more than cannon-shot avails or lets; 
Which negligently left unrounded, look 
Like many-angled figures in the book 
Of some dread conjurer. Donne. 
UNRO'UTED, adj. Not thrown into disorder. 
One strong squadron 
Stands firm, and yet unrouted. Beaum. and FI. 
UNRO'YAL, adj. Unprincely; not royal.—By the 
advice of his envious counsellors, he sent them with unroyal 
reproaches to Musidorus and Pyrocles, as if they had done 
traiterously. Sidney. 
To UNRU'FFLE, v. n. To cease from commotion, or 
agitation. 
Where’er he guides his finny coursers, 
The waves unrvfflc, and the sea subsides. Dryden. 
UNRU'FFLED, adj. Calm; tranquil; not tumultuous. 
Vent all thy passion, and I’ll stand its shock, 
Calm and unruffled as a summer’s sea. 
When not a breath of wind flies o’er its surface. Addison. 
UNRU'LED, adj. Not directed by any superior power. 
—The realm was left, like a ship in a storm, amidst all the 
raging surges, unruled and undirected of any; for they to 
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