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[Pref. un- (1), and Eng. entertaining.] Not entertaining; affording no pleasure or amusement. "The labor is long and the elements dry and unenter. taining."-Gray: Letters; To West , let. 25 (1740). *un-en-ter-tain-ing-ne , s. [English unentertaining; -ne .) The quality or state of being unentertaining. "Last post I received a very diminutive letter; it made excuses excuse for its unentertaining ne , very little to the purpose."-Gray: Letter to West (1740). IMG:content-0101.png:[blocks in formation] "Think'st thou thus unentomb'd to cro the flood?" Dryden: Virgil's Æneid, vi. 508. *un-en-trançed', a . [Pref. un- (1), and English entranced.] Not entranced or under the influence of a charm or spell; disentranced. "His heart was wholly unentranced." Taylor: Philip van Artevelde ( Lay of Elena ). un-en-vi-a-ble, a . [Pref. un- (1), and English enviable.] Not enviable; not to be envied. "The same propensities which afterward, in a higher post, gained for him an unenviable immortality."Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. iv. un-en-vied, a. [Pref. un- (1), and Eng. envied.] Not envied; not the object of envy. "Unenvied there, he may sustain alone The whole reproach, the fault was all his own." Cowper: Tirocinium. *un-en-vi-ous, a . [Pref. un- (1), and Eng. envious.] Not envious; free from envy. "We shall be far surer of finding these upright, unenvious, considerate, benevolent, compa ionate, than others, who have not equal inducements."- Secker : Ser mons, vol. v., ser. 11. *un-en-vy-ing, a . [Pref. un- (1), and English envying .] Not envying; free from envy; unenvious. *un-ep-1-logued, a . [Pref. un- (1), and English epilogu (e); -ed.] Not furnished or provided with an epilogue. ( Special coinage . ) "Unepilogued the poet waits his sentence." Goldsmith: Epilogue to The Sisters. *un-ě-pis-co-pal, adj . [Pref. un- (1), and Eng. episcopal .] Not episcopal; without bishops. "Any sovereign and une pisco pal Presbytery."-Gauden: Tears of the Church , p. 11. *un-e-qua-ble, a . [Pref. un- (1), and English equable.] Not equable, not uniform; changeful, fitful, changeable. "The most unsettled and unequable of seasons in most countries in the world."- Bentley : Sermons , ser. 8. *un-e-qua-bly, adv . [Eng. unequab(le); -ly.] Not equably or uniformly. "We behold the universe as a splendid space interspersed unequably with clusters." -Poe: Eureka ( Works , 1864), ii. 180.