unsubmitting (unsubmiting)

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia · 1897 · p. 81
Not submitting; not obsequious; not readily yielding. Thomson, Seasons, Summer. unsubordinate (un-sub-ôr'di-nāt), a. Not subordinate; not of inferior rank, dignity, cla , or order. A certaine unquestionable Patriarch at, independent and unsubordinate to the Crowne? Milton, Reformation in Eng., ii. unsubstantial (un-sub-stan's hal), a. 1. Not substantial; not solid: as, unsubstantial air. Shak., Lear, iv. 1. 7.-2. Not real; not having substance; imaginary; illusive: as, unsubstan tial forms. Rowe, Lady Jane Grey, iv.-3. Not having good substance; not strong or stout: as, an unsubstantial building building; unsubstantial cloth. -4. Not giving substance or strength; weak; not strengthening or invigorating. Like them [cocoanuts] probably they yield a nutriment that is watery and unsubstantial . Cook , First Voyage, III. ix. layers or strata: applied to the thalli of certain lichens.-2. In geol., not stratified. - Unstratified rocks, rocks which have not been deposited from water; ma ive rocks; rocks which have been formed by the action of fire, or were originally part of the earth's crust. unstrengtht (un-strength'), n. [ unstre ed (un-strest'), a. Not pronounced with stre , as a vowel; unaccented. The a, it should be added, is not French à, but an un stre ed form of the Old English preposition on. The Academy , March 14, 1891, p. 260. unstretch (un-strech'), v. i. To become unstretched; relax tension. Philos . Mag ., 5th ser., XXV. 109. unstriated (un-strī'ā-ted), a. Not striated; un striped: as, unstriated muscular fiber. 1. The state or character of being unsubstantial, in any sense. Something of unsubstantiality and uncertainty had beset iny hopes. Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre, xxiv. 2. An unsubstantial or illusive thing. A thing of witchcraft, a sort of fungus-growth out of the grave, an unsubstantiality altogether. Hawthorne, Septimius Felton.
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