unqueen (unkwen)

t. [ A queen, and daughter to a king, inter me. Shak ., Hen. VIII., iv. 2. 171. unquenchable (un-kwen'cha-bl), a . and n. I. a . Not quenchable; incapable of being quenched, extinguished, allayed, or the like: as, unquench able fire, thirst, etc. A kind of unquietude and discontentment. Sir H. Wotion, Education of Children. unquitt (un-kwit'), a. [ quit .] 1. Not discharged; not freed from obligation. Gracinus, we must pray you, hold your guards Unquit when morning comes. B. Jonson, Sejanus, v. 5. unreadable (un-re'da-bl), a. Not readable. (a) Incapable of being read or deciphered; illegible: as, unreadable manuscript or writing. (6) Not suitable or fit for reading; not worth reading: as, a dull, unreadable book or poem. Goethe.. wasted his time and thwarted his creative energy on the mechanical mock-antique of an unreadable "Achilleis." Lowell, Study Windows, p. 217. Littell's Living Age , CLXI. 75. unreadablene (un-rē'da-bl-nes), n. The qual- ity or state of being unreadable; illegibility. Athenæum, No. 3300, p. 113. unreadily (un-red'i-li), adv . In an unready manner. (a) Unpreparedly. (b) Not promptly; not quickly. (ct) Awkwardly. unracked (un-rakt'), a. No tracked; not hav- ing the contents freed from the lees: as, an un- racked ve el. Bacon , Nat. Hist., § 306. unraised (un-rāzd'), a. Not raised. (a) Not elewise perchance as unreadily . Hakluyt's Voyages , II. 171. An alarmist by nature, an aristocrat by party, he [Xen- ophon] carried to an unreasonable exce his horror of popular turbulence. Macaulay , History. 31. Not endowed with reason; irrational. The nature of creatures unreasonable . Sir T. Elyot , The Govern our, iii. 3. Unreasonable creatures feed their young. Shak., 3 Hen. VI., ii. 2. 26. 4. Not listening to or acting according to reason; not guided by reason; not influenced by reason. The character unreadine (un-red'i-nes), n . of being unready, in any sense. unready (un-red'i), a. [ unredy ; n . + ready.] 1. Not ready; not prepared; not fit. A dismal picture of the general doom; Where souls distracted, when the trumpet blows, And half unready with their bodies come. IMG:content-1502.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1503.png:[blocks in formation] An unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn. Bacon , Youth and Age. 4t. Not dre ed; undre ed. How now, my lords! what, all unready so? Shak., 1 Hen. VI., ii. 1. Enter James, unready , in his night-cap, garter le . Stage Direction in Two Maids of More clack. ( Nares .) To make unreadyt, to undre or unharne . Come, where have you been, wench? Make me unready . I slept but ill last night. Fletcher , Island Prince , iii. B. Jonson, New Inn, i. 1. unreadyt (un-red'i), v. t. [ unready , a.] To undre . Hee remayned with his daughter, to give his wife time of unready ing herself. Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, p. 379. ( Nares .) unreal (un-rē'al), a. 1. Not real; not substan- tial; having appearance only; illusive; ideal. IMG:content-1504.png:[blocks in formation] Fallacy of unreal middle. See fallacy. - Unreal quantity, an imaginary quantity. unrealism (un-rē'al-izm), n. The opposite of realism. unreality (un-re-al'i-ti), n. 1. Lack of reality or real existence.-2. That which has no re- ality or real existence. He (Julius Cæsar) was too sincere to stoop to unreality . He held to the facts of this life and to his own convic- tions. Froude , Cæsar, p. 549. 3. Unpractical character; visionarine . The unreality of the optimistic religions of the day was what he attacked unceasingly from youth to age, with an energy as honest in its way as Carlyle's. The Critic, XIV. 243. unrealize (un-real-iz), v. t . [ -ize .] To take away the reality of; make or consider unreal; divest of reality; present or treat in an ideal form. [Rare.] The men, the women, the lounger, the beggar, the boys, the dogs, are unrealized at once. IMG:content-1505.png:[blocks in formation] To unreason the equity of God's proceedings. South. unreasonable (un-rēʼzn-a-bl), a. 1. Not reason- able or agreeable to reason; irrational. For it is an vnresonable religioun that hath rizte nouzte of certeyne. Piers Plowman (B), vi. 153. If he [Henry VIII.) seems to act upon pure self-will, he is able to give a reason for his acts, and that such a reason as we cannot on mere prejudice determine to be unreason- able . Stubbs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 244. 2. Exceeding the bounds of reason; beyond what is reasonable or moderate; exorbitant; immoderate: as, an unreasonable price. The pretence was infinitely unreasonable , and therefore had the fate of sensele allegations, it disbanded pres- Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), L. 77. IMG:content-1506.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1507.png:[blocks in formation] (b) Not reformed; not called back from vice to virtue: as, a sinner unreclaimed. (c) Not brought into a state of cul- tivation, as desert or wild land. unrecognizable (un-rek'og-ni-za-bl), a. Not recognizable; nizable; incapable of being being rec recognized; irrecognizable. Cole ridge . unrecognizably (un-rek'og-ni-za-bli), adv . In an unrecognizable manner; without or beyond recognition. unrecognizably The opening through which we had come had closed un recognizably behind us. The Atlantic, LXVII. 499. unrecognized (un-rek'og-nizd), a. Not recognized, in any sense. As dear Sam Johnson sits behind the screen, there is no want of dignity in him, in that homely image of labour ill-rewarded, genius as yet unrecognised, independence sturdy and uncomplaining. Thackeray, On Screens in Dining-Rooms.