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UN-CÚÞLÍC - UN-DEARNINGA(-UNGA)
un-cúþlíc; adj. Unknown, strange, uncanny :-- Ða stánas sint ealle swíðe góde of tó drincanne wiþ ealle uncúþlícu þing, Lchdm. ii. 290, 14.
un-cúþlíce; adv. Unkindly :-- Ðam elþeódigan and útancumenan ne læ-acute;t ðú nó uncúðlíce wið hine ne mid nánum unrihtum ðú hine ne drecce (peregrino molestus non eris, Ex. 23, 9), L. Alf. 47; Th. i. 54, 21. [He spacc till hiss moder þuss unncuþli&yogh; (v. Jn 2, 4), Orm. 14341. Icel. ú-kunnliga like a stranger.] v. un-cúþ, IV.
un-cwaciende; adj. Without shaking or tottering :-- Ða ðe ne magon uncwaciende gestondan on emnum felda qui in planis stantes titubant, Past. 4; Swt. 41, 7.
un-cweden; adj. Unsaid, revoked :-- Uncwedene yrfebéc ruptum testamentum, Wrt. Voc. i. 20, 42.
un-cweþende; adj. I. not having speech :-- Ðeáh ðe gesomnod sý eal ðætte heofon oððe hel oððe eorðe æ-acute;fre ácende, and ánra gehwylc ge ðæra cweðendra ge ðæra uncweðendra hæbbe gyldene býman on múðe, Salm. Kmbl. p. 152, 9. II. not having a voice, inanimate :-- Hweþer ðú ongite ðæt ða uncweþendan gesceafta wilnodon tó biónne on écnesse swá ilce swá men gif hí mihton ea quae inanimata esse creduntur, nonne quod suum est quaeque simili ratione desiderant? Bt. 34, 11; Fox 150, 17. [Cf. Waldandes dóð unqueðandes só filo antkennian scolda ... erða ... bergós ... sténós, Hél. 5663.]
un-cwíd[d]; adj. Undisturbed by charges, in undisputed possession :-- Se ðe sitte uncwýdd and uncrafod on his áre on lífe, L. Eth. iii. 15; Th. i. 298, 9. Ðæ-acute;r se bónda sæt uncwýd (-cwýdd, MS. G.) and unbecrafod (cf. ubi bunda manserit sine calumpnia, L. H. I. 14, 5; Th. i. 526, 3), L. C. S. 72; Th. i. 414, 22. [Cf. Icel. ú-kvíðinn unconcerned.] v. cwíðan.
un-cwisse; adj. Speechless :-- Ðære tungan onstyrenesse beswicade (linguae motu caruit). Ðá wæ-acute;ron ðrý dagas and ðreó niht fulle ðæt heó wæs uncwisse, Bd. 4, 9; S. 577, 18.
un-cyme; adj. Mean, paltry, poor :-- On uncymre byrigenne geseted ignobili traditus sepulturae, Bd. 1, 33; S. 499, 7. Wæs his æþeleste ræst on nacodre eorðan. Ðá bæ-acute;don hine his discipulos ðæt hié móstan húru sume uncyme streównesse him under gedón for his untrumnesse, Blickl. Homl. 227, 12. Ne hæfde wit monig óðer uncymran hors nunquid non habuimus equos viliores plurimos? Bd. 3, 14; S. 540, 26.
un-cynde; adj. Unnatural :-- Nim swá wuda swá wyrt of ðære stówe ðe his eard and æþelo biþ on tó weaxanne and sette on uncynde stówe him, ðonne ne gegréwþ hit ðæ-acute;r náuht, Bt. 34, 10; Fox 148, 27. v. ungecynde.
un-cynlíc; adj. Unsuitable, improper :-- Ðæt wæ-acute;re uncynlícre, gif God næfde on eallum his ríce náne frige gesceaft, Bt. 41, 2; Fox 244, 28 note.
un-cyn[n]; adj. Unsuitable, unfitting, improper :-- Ðæm ne is uncynn mæht bið sald cui non inmerito potestas datur, Lk. Skt. p. 3, 3.
un-cýpe. v. un-cípe.
un-cyst, e: -cyste, an; f. A vice, defect, fault. I. of the body, a disorder :-- Wið wífa earfoðnyssum; ðás uncyste Grécas hátaþ hystem cepnizam, Lchdm. i. 334, 18. Tó eallum uncystum ðe on gómum beóð ácenned, 348, 12. II. of diction, a fault, solecism :-- Ðære uncyste sylocismi, laudacismi, ða uncyste barbarismi (the passage is: Inter Scillam soloecismi et barbarismi baratrum ... scopulosas lautacismi collisiones, Ald. 80), Wrt. Voc. ii. 88, 27-33: 52, 49. III. of morals, a vice, fault :-- Ðæt on ús ne sý geméted næ-acute;nigu stów æ-acute;metig gástlícra mægena, ðæt ðæ-acute;r mæge yfelu uncyst on eardian, Blickl. Homl. 37, l0. Ðeós deáþberende uncyst (envy), 65, 13. Hé bær ða wæ-acute;tan ðære uncystan (-cyste, Bd. M. 82, 13) in ðam telgan portat in ramo humorem vitii, Bd. 1, 27; S. 495, 26. Ða uncyste ðære ánwielnesse vitio obstinationis, Past. 6; Swt. 47, 16. Gif ðú nán gód dón nelt Gode tó wurðmynte, ðonne geswutelast ðú mid ðære uncyste ðíne yfelnysse, Homl. Th. i. 142, 2. Fýr æ-acute;leþ uncyste,Exon. Th. 233, 17; Ph. 526: 81, 27; Cri. 1330. Gif hwylce uncysta on biscopum gemétte sýn si qua sunt in episcopis vitia, Bd. 1, 27; S. 492, 17. Ða unsýfernysse uncysta rudera vitiorum, 4, 3; S. 569, 32: 1, 27; S. 495, 32. Uncysta passionum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 77, 33. Ða men ðe ðyssum uncystum (covetousness, envy, lust) fylgaþ, Blickl. Homl. 25, 9. Hwá ongyt his uncysta delicta quis intelligit? Ps. Th. 18, 11. Sume wealdaþ ealle uncysta and leahtras on him sylfum, Homl. Th. i. 344, 35. III a. the vice of avarice, niggardliness, parsimony, want of liberality. v. un-cystig :-- Ðises mannes (the rich span who gave nothing to Lazarus) uncyst and upáhefednys hine besencte on cwicsúsle, Homl. Th. i. 328, 22. Spærnesse &l-bar; uncyste frugalitatis, Hpt. Gl. 425, 66. Ne hé uncysta ná begange nec avaritie studeat, R. Ben. 55, 3. [O. H. Ger. un-kust vitium, scelus, dolus. Cf. Icel. ú-kostr a fault.]
un-cystig; adj. Niggardly, parsimonious, not liberal :-- Uncystig frugus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 109, 18: 36, 5: frugi vel parcus, i. 47, 37: parcus, Ælfc. Gr. 28, 7; Zup. 180, 13. Uncystig oððe spærhynde frugi, 9, 78; Zup. 74, 12. Fæsthafol oððe uncystig tenax, Wrt. Voc. i. 76, 5. Ne sæ-acute;de ðæt hálige godspel (Lk. c. 16) ðæt se ríca reáfere wæ-acute;re, ac wæs uncystig and módegode on his welum, Homl. Th. i. 328, 19. 'Gé noldon him on mínum naman tíðian' ... Ðonne faraþ ða uncystigan intó écere cwicsúsle, ii. 108, 30: Wulfst. 289, 8. Ða uncystgan hé cysta læ-acute;re, swá hé ða cystgan on merringe ne gebringe; ond swá eft ða rúmmódan fæsthafolnesse læ-acute;ren, swá hí ða uncystegan on yfelre hneáwnesse ne gebrengen sic tenacibus infundatur tribuendi largitas, ut tamen prodigis effusionis frena minime laxentur; sic prodigis praedicetur parcitas, ut tamen tenacibus periturarum rerum custodia non augeatur, Past. 60; Swt. 453, 27-29. [O. H. Ger. un-kustig rudis, impurus, dolosus, improbus.]
un-cýðig; adj. Ignorant, unacquainted :-- Wittende sciens ... uncýðig &l-bar; unwittende ignorans, Lk. Skt. p. 7, 18. Ðá wundrade heó ymb ðæs weres snyttro, hú hé swá geleáfful on swá lytlum fæce ond swá uncýðig æ-acute;fre wurde gleáwnysse þurhgoten she wondered at the man's wisdom, how in so little space and (previously) so ignorant he should ever become so full of belief, saturated with prudence, Elen. Kmbl. 1918; El. 961. Elnes uncýðig ignorant (i. e. devoid) of strength, Exon. Th. 175, 23; Gú. 1199. [Icel. ú-kunnigr unacquainted: Ger. un-kundig.] v. on-cýðig; un-and-cýðigness.
un-cýððu(-o); indecl.: -cýððð, e; f. I. ignorance :-- Ne spræc hé (Moses) hit nó forðýðe his mód áuht genierwed wæ-acute;re mid ðære uncýððe ðæs síðfætes neque enim Moysi mentem ignorantia itineris angustabat, Past. 41; S. 304, 17, Mín sceal of líce sáwul on síðfæt, nát ic sylfa hwider, eardes uncýðþu (in ignorance of the land to which it is bound), Exon. Th. 284, 22; Jul. 701. II. a country not one's own, a strange land :-- Siþþan se éþel úðgenge wearð Adame and Euan ... ðá hý on uncýððu scofene wurdon, on gewinworuld, Exon. Th. 153, 18; Gú. 827. [Þe soule is her in uncuððe ... and nout eðcene hwuch heo schal iwurðen in hire owune riche. Þet fleshe is her et home, A. R. 140, 17-20.]
un-dæ-acute;d, e; f. An ill deed, evil action, a crime, misdeed :-- On yfelan geðance and on undæ-acute;de, Wulfst. 165, 5. Ðá Helmstán ða undæ-acute;de gedyde ðæt hé Æðerédes belt forstæl when Helmstan committed the crime of stealing Æthered's belt, Chart. Th. 169, 19, 28. Yflo uerco &l-bar; undédo mala opera, Jn. Skt. Lind. 3, 19. Scyldig and mánful mid undæ-acute;dum eall gesýmed sceleratis impius actis, Dóm. L. 58. Man deófol georne forbúge and his undæ-acute;da ealle oferhogie, Wulfst. 68, 12. [O. H. Ger. un-tát delictum, macula, fagitiosum: Ger. un-that.]
un-dæftelíce. v. un-gedæftlíce.
un-dæ-acute;led; adj. Undivided, not separated :-- Hit þencþ ætgædere beón gehál undæ-acute;led, forþam gif hit tódæ-acute;led biþ, ðonne tie biþ hit nó hál, Bt. 34, 12; Fox 152, 27. Ða hwíle ðe seó sáwl and se líchoma undæ-acute;lde beóþ, 34, 9; Fox 148, 5.
Undalan; pl. The name which remains as Oundle, a town in Northamptonshire :-- Férde hé forþ on his mynstre ðe hé hæfde on Undalana mæ-acute;gþe (in provincia Undalum), Bd. 5, 19; S. 641, 16. On ðære mæ-acute;gþe seó is gecýged In Undalum in provincia quae vocatur In Undalum, S. 636, 43. Wilferð biscop forðférde in (on v. r.) Undalum, Chr. 709; Erl. 45, 1. In Latin charters the form is Undale :-- Uillam Undale ... de ipsa uilla Undale, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 93, 1, 8. Uillam de Undale, v. 6, 22. In later English it is Undela :-- Ic gife ðone tún ðe man cleopeþ Undela, Chr. 963; Erl. 122, 4.
un-deáded; adj. Not deadened :-- Wiþ springe ge ádeádedum ge undeádedum, Lchdm. ii. 8, 7.
un-deádlíc; adj. Immortal, undying, imperishable, endless :-- God hálig and undeádlíc (immortalis), Rtl. 169, 17. Hé wunaþ undeádlíc, se ðe wæs deádlíc, Homl. Th. i. 150, 22. Se mann wæ-acute;re æ-acute;fre undeádlíc, gif hé his Drihtne gehýrsumode, Hexam. 15; Norm. 22, 27. Undeádlíc, wyrm the worm that never dies, Homl. Skt. i. 4, 385. Tó onfónne ðæ-acute;s undeádlícan gegyrlan on neorxna wange, Homl. Ass. 142, 105. Hí wæ-acute;ron gehátene ealle immortalis, þæt sindon undeádlíce, Jud. Thw. p. 162, 31. Þurh undeádlíce worulda per immortalia secula, Anglia xi. 119, 77. v. un-deáþlíc.
un-deádlícness, e; f. Immortality :-- Úre æ-acute;hta sind éce on heofenum, ðæ-acute;r ðæ-acute;r undeádlícnys rícsaþ, Homl. Th. ii. 484, 28. Hyht hiora undeádlícnise (immortalitate) full is, Rtl. 86, 22: Homl. Th. i. 544. 3. Hæfde God ðæs mannes sáwle gegódod mid undeádlícnysse ... wé ne forluron ná ða undeádlícnyssæ, 20, 1-4: Bd. 1, 27; S. 493, 4: 3, 21; S. 551, 3. v. un-deáþlícness.
un-dearninga(-unga), -deornunga; adv. Without secrecy or concealment, openly :-- Elene for eorlum spræc undearninga, ides reordode hlúde for herigum, Elen. Kmbl. 809; El. 405: Fins. Th. 45; Fin. 22. Undearnunga, Elen. Kmbl. 1237; El. 620. Ðú ofer ealle undearnunga ðíne bearn sprecest and beslde cwyst locutus es in aspectu filiis tuis et dixisti, Ps. Th. 88, 16. Ic seah wyhte twá undearnunga plegan, Exon. Th. 429, 9; Rä. 43, 2. Gekýþe hé ðæt hé ðæt feoh, undeornunga his cúðan ceápe in wíc gebohte, L. H. E. 16; Th. i. 34, 10.