unenlightened ( gh silent)

[Pref. un- (1), and Eng. enlightened.] Not enlightened; not mentally or morally illuminated. "Let cottagers and unenlightened swains Revere the laws they dream that Heaven ordains." Cowper : Hope , 240. *un-en-liv-ened, adj . [Pref. un- (1), and Eng. enlivened.] Not enlivened; not rendered cheerful, bright, or animated. "Unadorned by words, unenlivened by figures."- Atter. bury: Sermons, vol. i., ser. i. *ŭn-en-slāved', adject . [Pref. un- (1), and Eng. enslaved.] Not enslaved; free. Add is on. "She sits a sovereign, unenslaved and free." un-en-tăn-gle, v . t . [Pref. un- (2), and Eng. entangle .] To free from complication or entanglement; to disentangle. "Omy God, how dost thou unentangle me in any scruple arising out of the consideration of this thy fear."Donne: Devotions, p. 129. un-en-tăn-gled (gled as geld), a. [Pref. un. (1), and Eng. entangled.] 1. Not entangled; free from complication, perplexity, or entanglement. "That this man, wise and virtuous as he was, pa ed always unentangled through the snares of life, it would be a prejudice and temerity to affirm."-Johnson: Lives of the Poets ; Collins. 2. Disentangled. entered. un-en-tered, adj . [Pref. un- (1), and English 1. Not entered; not gone or pa ed into. "The intelligencies I have seen Round our regretted and unenter'd Eden." Byron. Cain , ii. 2. 2. Not entered or set down in a list; as, Heis unen tered for the race. *un-en-ter-Ing, adj . [Pref. un- (1), and Eng. entering.] Not entering; making no impre ion. ( Southey : Thalaba , ix.) *ŭn-en-ter-priş-ing, adj . [Pref. un (1), and Eng. enterprising .) Not enterprising, not adven turous. "He was a timid and unenterprising commander."Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. xviii.