unleisured ness (unlezhurdnes)

Want of leisure; the state of being occupied. Boyle, Works, II. 251. unle (un-les'), conj. [Early mod. E. also un le e, onle , onle e, onles, earlier onle e that, on le e that ( that being ultimately dropped, as with for, conj., lest, etc.), a phrase analogous to at least, at most, etc.: see onl and le 1. Cf. lest.] 1. If it be not that; if it be not the case that; were it not the fact that; if not; supposing that not. .. It is not po ible for all things to be well, unle all men were good: which I think will not be yet these good many years. Sir T. More, Utopia (tr. by Robinson), i. Unle thou tell'st me where thou had'st this ring, Thou diest within this hour. unlimited Being unlike in troth of Religion, they must nedes be on- like in honestie of liuing. Ascham, The Scholemaster, p. 84. 2t. Not likely; improbable; unlikely. It ne is nat an unlyk myracle to hem that ne knowen it nat. Chaucer , Boëthius, iv. prose 6. It is not unlike that the Britons accompanied the Cim- brians and Gaules in those expeditions. Hakluyt's Voyages , II. 1. Unlike quantities, in math ., quantities expre ed by different letters or combinations of letters, or by the same letters with different exponents. - Unlike signs, the signs plus (+) and minus (-). unlike (un-lik'), adv . Not in a like or similar manner; not like or as. Oft have I seen the haughty cardinal.. Swear like a ruffian and demean himself Unlike the ruler of a commonweal. Shak., 2 Hen. VI., i. 1. 189. unlikelihood (un-lik'li-hud), n. The state of being unlikely or improbable; improbability. Thus much may suffice to shew the unlikelihood or rather impo ibilitie of the supposed comming of our Saxon an cestors from elsewhere into Germanie. Verstegan, Rest. of Decayed Intelligence (ed. 1628), p. 39. The extreme unlikelihood that such men should engage in such a measure. Paley, Evidences, iii. 8. unlikeline (un-likʻli-nes), n. [ Shak., All's Well, v. 3. 284. You should not ask, ' le you knew how to give. IMG:content-1434.png:[blocks in formation] I that God of Loves ser vaunts serve, Ne dar to love for myn unliklyne e. Chaucer , Troilus, i. 16. ledge; become ignorant. For only by unlearning Wisdom comes, And climbing backward to diviner Youth. Lowell, Parting of the Ways.