Emily Dickinson Lexicon

UN-CAUS'ED, a. [s as z.]

Having no precedent cause; existing without an author.

UN-CAU'TIOUS, a.

Not cautious; not wary; heedless. [Incautious is now generally used.] Dryden.

UN-CEAS'ING, a.

Not ceasing; not intermitting; continual.

UN-CEAS'ING-LY, adv.

Without intermission or cessation; continually.

UN-CED'ED, a.

Not ceded; not granted or transferred.

UN-CEL'E-BRA-TED, a.

Not celebrated; not solemnized. Milton.

UN-CE-LES'TIAL, a.

Not heavenly. Feltham.

UN-CE-MENT'ED, a.

Not cemented.

UN-CEN'SUR-A-BLE, a.

Not worthy of censure. Dwight.

UN-CEN'SUR-A-BLY, adv.

In an uncensurable manner.

UN-CEN'SUR-ED, a.

Not censured; exempt from blame or reproach. Whose right it is uncensur'd to be dull. Pope.

UN-CEN'TRIC-AL, a.

Not central; distant from the center.

UN-CER-E-MO'NI-AL, a.

Not ceremonial.

UN-CER-E-MO'NI-OUS, a.

Not ceremonious; not formal.

UN-CER-E-MO'NI-OUS-LY, adv.

Without ceremony or form.

UN-CER'TAIN, a.

1. Not certain; doubtful; not certainly known. It is uncertain who will be the next president.
2. Doubtful; not having certain knowledge. Man without the protection of a superior Being–is uncertain of every thing that he hopes for. Tillotson.
3. Not sure in the consequence. Or whistling slings dismiss'd the uncertain stone. Gay.
4. Not sure; not exact. Soon bent his bow, uncertain in his aim. Dryden.
5. Unsettled; irregular. Hooker.

UN-CER'TAIN-LY, adv.

1. Not surely; not certainly. Dryden.
2. Not confidently. Standards that can not be known at all, or but imperfectly and uncertainly. Locke.

UN-CER'TAIN-TY, n.

1. Doubtfulness; dubiousness. The truth is not ascertained; the latest accounts have not removed the uncertainty.
2. Want of certainty; want of precision; as, the uncertainty of the signification of words.
3. Contingency. Steadfastly grasping the greatest and most slippery uncertainties. South.
4. Something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's ease that quits a certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.

UN-CES'SANT, a.

Continual; incessant. [The latter is the word now used.]

UN-CES'SANT-LY, adv.

Incessantly. [Obs.]

UN-CHAIN', v.t.

To free from chains or slavery. Prior.

UN-CHAIN'ED, pp.

Disengaged from chains, shackles or slavery.

UN-CHAIN'ING, ppr.

Freeing from chains, bonds or restraint.

UN-CHAL'LENGE-A-BLE, a.

That can not be challenged. Scott.

UN-CHAL'LENGE-A-BLY, adv.

So as to be unchallengeable.