untrue, untrewe

& adv. [Pref. un- (1), and Eng. true.) A. As adjective : 1. Not true; not in accordance with the facts; false. "It is clearly untrue that no other thing is thereby signified."-Hooker: Eccles. Polity , bk. vii., § 11. 2. Not faithful to another; inconstant, false; not to be trusted; faithle , disloyal. "When to my good lord I prove untrue." Shakesp.: Cymbeline, i. 5. 3. Inconstant as a lover. "The men inglorious knights, the ladies all untrue." Dryden: Flower and Leaf, 564. IMG:content-0279.png:[blocks in formation] *ŭn-trû-işm, s. [Eng. untrue; -ism.] A false statement. ( Special coinage .) "Platitudes, truisms, and untruisms." -Trollope : Bar chester Towers , ch. vi. ŭn-tru-ly, adv. [Eng. untru (e); -ly.] In an untrue manner; not truly; contrary to the truth of reality; falsely. *un-trum-pět-ed, a. [Pref. un- (1), and Eng. trumpeted.] Not famed or made much of. "They lived untrumpeted and died unsung."-Reade: Cloister and Hearth , ch. i. *ŭn-trŭńked', adj . [Pref. un- (1), and English trunked.] Cut off from the trunk. "From stock untrunked." Stanyhurst: Virgil's Aneid , ii. 655. *un-tru ', *un-tru e, v . t . [Pref. un- (2), and Eng. tru , v.] 1. To untie or unfasten; to loose from, or as from, a tru ; to let out; specifically, to loose or let down the breeches, by untying the points by which they were held up. "He was about to untru e his points." -Holinshed: Hist. England, bk. iv., ch. xxii. 2. To undre , to strip. "Quick, quick, untru me."-Beaum. & Flet.: Elder Brother, iv. 4. *ŭn-trŭ ', s . [UNTRUSS, v.] An untru er. "Thou grand scourge, or second untru of the time." -Ben Jonson: Every Man out of his Humor , ii. 1. *ŭn-trŭ ed', a . [Pref. un- (1), and Eng. tru ed .] Not tru ed; not tied up. "Whose armes halfe naked; lockes untru ed bee." Fairfax : Godfrey of Boulogne , xviii. *ŭn-trŭ -er, s. [Eng. untru ; -er.] One who untru es; one who prepares for whipping by untru ing. "The untru ers or whippers of the age."- Ben Jonson: Poetaster , v. 1. *ŭn-trust', 8. Distrust, mistrust. ful.] [Pref. un- (1), and Eng. trust.] "It groweth of sotie Of loue, and somdele of untrust." Gower: C. A. , v.