unleash

t. [Pref. un- (2), and Eng. leash.] To free from or as from a leash; to let go; to release. *ŭn-leave', v . t . [Prefix un- (2), and English leave(s).] To strip of leaves. "The good gardiner IMG:content-0182.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Ord. Lang. Bread made without leaven or barm. 2. Church Hist .: Unleavened bread is used in the Roman Church for the celebration of ma and the administration of the Eucharist, while the Greeks use leavened bread. In the English Church the Rubric directs that the bread "shall be such as is usual to be eaten," and an attempt to revive the use of unleavened bread has been declared illegal. Feast of Unleavened Bread : Judaism : A festival so connected with that of the Pa over that the two are all but identified (Exod. xii. 11, 17; Ezek. xlv. 21). It celebrated the fact that in the exodus from Egypt on the night when the Pa over was killed the departure of the Israeli tes was so sudden, that there was no time to bake bread in the usual way with leaven (Exod. xii. 39). The eating of unleavened bread annually at the festival was therefore enjoined as a religious duty, and neither leavened bread nor leaven was to be within the houses of the worshipers during the seven days that the festival continued. (Exod. xii. 14-20, xiii. 6,7). [PASSOVER.] un-lěc-tured, adj . [Pref. un- (1), and English lectured .] 1. Not lectured; not addre ed in a lecture or lectures. *2. Not taught orally or in lectures. "A science yet unlectured in our schools." Young: Night Thoughts , v. 518. un-lěď, adj . [Pref. un- (1), and Eng. led.] Not led; without guidance. ( Sandys : Travels , p. 66.) *un-left', a . [Pref. un- (1), and Eng. left .] Not left. "Yet were his men unleft ." Chapman Homer's Iliad, ii. 622. *ŭn-leis'-üred (leis as lězh or lēzh), a . [Pref. un- (1), and Eng. leisured .] Not leisured; destitute of leisure; not having leisure; occupied, busy. "Her unleisured thoughts ran not over the ten first words."- Sidney: Arcadia, bk. ii. *ŭn-leis'-ûred-ne (leis as lězh or lēzh), subst . [ Eng . unleisured ; -ne .) The quality or state of being unleisured; want of leisure; occupation. "The true, though seldom the avowed cause of these men's neglect of the scripture, is not their unleisured ne , but their pride."- Boyle : Works , ii. 312. un-le , *un-le e, *on-les, *on-le e, conj . [Originally onle e, onle e that = in le than, on a le supposition, in a le case.] 1. If it be not the case that; if it be not that; were it not the fact or case that; if not; supposing that IMG:content-0183.png:[blocks in formation] In some cases unle is used almost as a preposition, a verb being omitted; as in, "Here nothing breeds unle the nightly owl" ( Shakesp .: Titus Andronicus, ii. 3), where" it be " is omitted after unle , or breed after owl. Except and unle were formerly commonly used as conjunctions, and almost or quite interchangeably, but the former is now seldom used as a conjunction. Unle , which is equivalent to, if le , if not, or if one fail, is employed only for the particular case; but except has always a reference to some general rule, of which an exception is hereby signified; I shall not do it unle he ask me; no one can enter except those who are provided with tickets. *un-les-soned, a . [Prefix un- (1); Eng. le on, and suff. ed .] Not le oned; not having had le ons prescribed or taught to one; untaught; uninstructed. "The full sum of me Is an unle oned girl, unschooled, unpractised." Shakesp.: Merchant of Venice , iii. 2. *un-let-těd, a . [Prefix un- (1), and Eng. let , v.] Not let, hindered, or prevented; unimpeded. "And song full low and softely, Three songs in her harmony, Unletted of every wight." Chaucer: Dreame. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, unlettered un-let-tered, *un-let-tred, un-let-trid, adj. [Prefix un- (1), and Eng. lettered.] Illiterate, ignorant, unlearned. "Still let him prompt the unlettered villagers To tender offices and pensive thoughts." Words worth: Old Cumber land Beggar . *un-lěv-el, a. [Pref. un- (1), and Eng. level .] Not level, even, or smooth.