Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: UN-CAUS'ED – UN-CHAL'LENGE-A-BLY
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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.
Not ceremonial.
Not ceremonious; not formal.
UN-CER-E-MO'NI-OUS-LY, adv.
Without ceremony or form.
UN-CER'TAIN, a.
- Not certain; doubtful; not certainly known. It is uncertain who will be the next president.
- Doubtful; not having certain knowledge. Man without the protection of a superior Being–is uncertain of every thing that he hopes for. Tillotson.
- Not sure in the consequence. Or whistling slings dismiss'd the uncertain stone. Gay.
- Not sure; not exact. Soon bent his bow, uncertain in his aim. Dryden.
- Unsettled; irregular. Hooker.
UN-CER'TAIN-LY, adv.
- Not surely; not certainly. Dryden.
- Not confidently. Standards that can not be known at all, or but imperfectly and uncertainly. Locke.
UN-CER'TAIN-TY, n.
- Doubtfulness; dubiousness. The truth is not ascertained; the latest accounts have not removed the uncertainty.
- Want of certainty; want of precision; as, the uncertainty of the signification of words.
- Contingency. Steadfastly grasping the greatest and most slippery uncertainties. South.
- 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.
That can not be challenged. Scott.
UN-CHAL'LENGE-A-BLY, adv.
So as to be unchallengeable.