Ubiquitous to Unexhausted

A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey

ubiquitous, adj. (1)

    Schr 10.283 21 ...[mother-wit's] look is catholic and universal, its light ubiquitous like the sun.

Uffizi Gallery, Florence, (1)

    Exp 3.63 2 ...the Transfiguration...the Communion of Saint Jerome, and what are as transcendent as these, are on the walls of the Vatican, the Uffizi, or the Louvre, where every footman may see them;...

ugliness, n. (7)

    LT 1.289 12 [The Moral Sentiment] makes by its presence or absence... beauty and ugliness...
    Cir 2.315 27 ...one man's beauty [is] another's ugliness;...
    Nat2 3.173 15 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight... I am taught...the ugliness of towns and palaces.
    Pol1 3.214 17 This undertaking for another is the blunder which stands in colossal ugliness in the governments of the world.
    Bty 6.300 9 ...petulant old gentlemen...affirm that the secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
    DL 7.123 10 [The women of Arthur's court]...said that the devil was in the mantle, for really the truth was in the mantle, and was exposing the ugliness which each would fain conceal.
    PI 8.69 18 Shakspeare could no doubt have been disagreeable...if ugliness had attracted him.

ugly, adj. (26)

    Pt1 3.18 23 ...it is dislocation and detachment from the life of God that makes things ugly...
    Mrs1 3.154 12 Without the rich heart, wealth is a ugly beggar.
    PPh 4.71 7 ...the potters copied [Socrates'] ugly face on their stone jugs.
    PPh 4.75 5 The rare coincidence [in Socrates], in one ugly body, of the droll and the martyr...had forcibly struck the mind of Plato...
    ET8 5.135 11 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner], odd and ugly...
    Ctr 6.161 23 We must know our friends under ugly masks.
    Bhr 6.195 24 I have seen manners that make a similar impression with personal beauty;...and in memorable experiences they are suddenly better than beauty, and make that superfluous and ugly.
    Wsp 6.235 2 [Benedict said] My race may not be prospering; we are sick, ugly, obscure, unpopular.
    Bty 6.295 25 In our cities an ugly building is soon removed and is never repeated...
    Bty 6.296 2 ...all masons and carpenters work to repeat and preserve the agreeable forms, whilst the ugly ones die out.
    Bty 6.298 12 Mirabeau had an ugly face on a handsome ground;...
    Bty 6.298 27 Saadi describes a schoolmaster so ugly and crabbed that a sight of him would derange the ecstasies of the orthodox.
    Bty 6.300 11 We love any forms, however ugly, from which great qualities shine.
    Bty 6.300 22 Since I am so ugly, said Du Guesclin, it behooves that I be bold.
    WD 7.163 27 [Tantalus] is now in great spirits;...thinks he shall bottle the wave. It is however getting a little doubtful. Things have an ugly look still.
    Boks 7.215 9 ...when one observes how ill and ugly people make their loves and quarrels, 't is pity they should not read novels a little more...
    Comc 8.172 3 ...Timur was an ugly man;...
    Comc 8.172 10 Timur saw himself in the mirror and found his face quite too ugly.
    Comc 8.172 20 ...said Timur to Chodscha, Hearken! I have looked in the mirror, and seen myself ugly.
    Comc 8.172 22 ...said Timur to Chodscha, Hearken! I have looked in the mirror, and seen myself ugly. Thereat I grieved, because, although I am Caliph...yet still I am so ugly; therefore have I wept.
    Dem1 10.26 27 [The demonologic] is a lawless world. We have...come into the realm or chaos of chance and pretty or ugly confusion;...
    EWI 11.147 14 There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always...making all crime mean and ugly.
    War 11.165 20 The standing army, the arsenal, the camp and the gibbet do not appertain to man. They only serve as an index to show where man is now;...what an ugly neighbor he is;...
    AKan 11.259 26 Manifest Destiny, Democracy, Freedom, fine names for an ugly thing.
    ALin 11.332 6 In a host of young men that start together and promise so many brilliant leaders for the next age, each fails on trial; one by bad health, one by...an ugly temper...
    Milt1 12.262 24 Among so many contrivances as the world has seen to make holiness ugly, in Milton at least it was so pure a flame that the foremost impression his character makes is that of elegance.

ulterior, adj. (14)

    Nat 1.41 14 When a thing has served an end to the uttermost, it is wholly new for an ulterior service.
    Pt1 3.20 12 The poet, by an ulterior intellectual perception, gives [things] a power which makes their old use forgotten...
    Pol1 3.210 13 ...[the spirit of our American radicalism] has no ulterior and divine ends...
    PPh 4.43 10 Plato...mainly is not a poet because he chose to use the poetic gift to an ulterior purpose.
    PNR 4.82 19 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses.
    PNR 4.88 4 ...a very well-marked class of souls, namely those who delight in giving a spiritual, that is, an ethico-intellectual expression to every truth, by exhibiting an ulterior end which is yet legitimate to it,--are said to Platonize.
    F 6.39 11 The ulterior aim...will not stop but will work into finer particulars...
    PI 8.15 23 The poet accounts all productions and changes of Nature as the nouns of language, uses them representatively, too well pleased with their ulterior to value much their primary meaning.
    Insp 8.271 16 [Man] is fain to make the ulterior step by mechanical means.
    Insp 8.271 18 [Man] is fain to make the ulterior step by mechanical means. It cannot so be done. That ulterior step is to be also by inspiration;...
    Insp 8.294 21 ...every word...hints ulterior meanings.
    SovE 10.183 14 That convertibility we so admire in plants and animal structures, whereby the repairs and ulterior uses are subserved, when one part is wounded or deficient, by another; this self-help and self-creation proceed from the same original power which works remotely in grandest and meanest structures by the same design...
    EdAd 11.384 20 ...we cannot stave off the ulterior question...the WHERE TO of all this [American] power and population...
    WSL 12.343 18 Whoever writes for the love of truth and beauty, and not with ulterior ends, belongs to this sacred class;...

ultimate, adj. (14)

    Nat 1.12 10 [Commodity]...is a benefit which is...not ultimate...
    Nat 1.24 16 The world thus exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty. This element I call an ultimate end.
    Nat 1.24 22 ...beauty in nature is not ultimate.
    AmS 1.111 18 The meal in the firkin;...the form and the gait of the body; - show me the ultimate reason of these matters;...
    Hist 2.6 1 All laws derive hence [from the universal nature] their ultimate reason;...
    SR 2.70 12 ...a man or a company of men, plastic and permeable to principles, by the law of nature must overpower and ride all...poets, who are not. This is the ultimate fact...
    Hsm1 2.251 27 ...[heroism's] ultimate objects are the last defiance of falsehood and wrong, and the power to bear all that can be inflicted by evil agents.
    Cir 2.304 20 Every ultimate fact is only the first of a new series.
    SwM 4.110 1 What we call gravitation, and fancy ultimate, is one fork of a mightier stream for which we have yet no name.
    Wsp 6.219 17 ...the primordial atoms...are in search of justice, and ultimate right is done.
    EWI 11.137 26 This moral force perpetually reinforces and dignifies the friends of this cause [emancipation in the West Indies]. It gave that tenacity to their point which has insured ultimate triumph...
    War 11.155 17 ...the appearance of the other instincts [than self-help] immediately modifies and controls this; turns its energies into harmless, useful and high courses, showing thereby what was its ultimate design;...
    ALin 11.337 23 There is a serene Providence which rules the fate of nations, which...obtains the ultimate triumph of the best race by the sacrifice of everything which resists the moral laws of the world.
    MAng1 12.217 15 Like Truth, [Beauty] is an ultimate aim of the human being.

ultimate, v. (1)

    PI 8.17 22 A deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing.

ultimately, adv. (1)

    SwM 4.114 8 It is a constant law of the organic body that large, compound, or visible forms exist and subsist from smaller, simpler and ultimately from invisible forms...

ultimates, n. (2)

    Nat 1.49 18 [To the senses] Things are ultimates...
    QO 8.201 19 ...[Genius] knows that facts are not ultimates...

ultimates, v. (1)

    Bty 6.290 19 It is the soundness of the bones that ultimates itself in a peach-bloom complexion;...

ultraists, n. (1)

    NER 3.251 15 ...that the Church, or religious party...is appearing...in very significant assemblies called Sabbath and Bible Conventions; composed of ultraists...

Ulysses [Alfred, Lord Tenn (1)

    EurB 12.372 17 Ulysses [Tennyson] belongs to a high class of poetry...

Ulysses [Homer, Iliad], n. (6)

    Elo1 7.72 1 [Priam] answered Helen, daughter of Jove, This is the wise Ulysses...
    Elo1 7.72 5 ...once the wise Ulysses came hither on an embassy, with Menelaus, beloved by Mars.
    Elo1 7.72 12 When [Ulysses and Menelaus] mixed with the assembled Trojans, and stood, the broad shoulders of Menelaus rose above the other; but, both sitting, Ulysses was more majestic.
    Elo1 7.72 17 ...when the wise Ulysses arose and stood and looked down... you would say it was some angry or foolish man;...
    Elo1 7.72 25 ...when...his words fell like the winter snows, not then would any mortal contend with Ulysses;...
    Elo1 7.72 27 ...[Homer] does not fail to arm Ulysses at first with this power of overcoming all opposition by the blandishments of speech.

Ulysses [Homer, Odyssey], n (2)

    Elo1 7.74 4 I know no remedy against [an oiled tongue] but...the wax which Ulysses stuffed into the ears of his sailors to pass the Sirens safely.
    Aris 10.42 1 Ulysses in Homer is represented as a very skilful carpenter.

Ulysses, n. (3)

    NMW 4.239 7 There have been many working kings, from Ulysses to William of Orange...
    War 11.152 25 [Society] presently finds the value of good sense and of foresight, and Ulysses takes rank next to Achilles.
    Let 12.400 19 It is heartrending to see your [German] poet, your artist, and all who still revere genius, who love and foster the Beautiful. The Good! They...are like the patient Ulysses whilst he sat in the guise of a beggar at his own door...

umbilical, adj. (3)

    Nat2 3.188 20 This is the man-child that is born to the soul, and her life still circulates in the babe. The umbilical cord has not yet been cut.
    SwM 4.143 15 ...[Swedenborg] could never break the umbilical cord which held him to nature...
    ET8 5.130 19 [The English] are full of coarse strength, rude exercise, butcher's meat and sound sleep; and suspect any poetic insinuation or any hint for the conduct of life which reflects on this animal existence, as if somebody were fumbling at the umbilical cord and might stop their supplies.

umbrage, n. (1)

    Hsm1 2.251 18 ...just and wise men take umbrage at [the hero's] act...

umbrella, n. (4)

    ET6 5.105 10 An Englishman walks in a pouring rain, swinging his closed umbrella like a walking-stick;...and no remark is made.
    ET14 5.254 13 A horizon of brass of the diameter of his umbrella shuts down around [the English student's] senses.
    Comc 8.159 3 Separate any object, as...an umbrella, from the connection of things...it becomes at once comic;...
    WSL 12.344 14 [Landor]...is not insensible to the beauty of...the Turk's head on his umbrella;...

umbrella-maker, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.350 22 It takes sixteen hundred and eighty men to make one Man, complete in all the faculties; that is, to be sure that you have got...an umbrella-maker, a mayor and alderman, and so on.

umbrellas, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.152 23 ...I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo the street was in a blaze with scarlet umbrellas.

umpire, n. (1)

    OS 2.279 13 ...if I renounce my will and act for the soul, setting that up as umpire between us two, out of [my child's] young eyes looks the same soul;...

umpires, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.3 1 Those who are esteemed umpires of taste are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures...

unable, adj. (25)

    AmS 1.96 10 [The actions and events of our childhood] lie like fair pictures in the air. Not so...with the business which we now have in hand. On this we are quite unable to speculate.
    MN 1.209 12 I conceive a man as always spoken to from behind, and unable to turn his head and see the speaker.
    LT 1.279 11 The great majority of men, unable to judge of any principle until its light falls on a fact, are not aware of the evil that is around them...
    SL 2.145 19 All the terrors of the French Republic, which held Austria in awe, were unable to command her diplomacy.
    Lov1 2.181 9 ...[the ancient writers] said that the soul of man, embodied here on earth...was soon stupefied by the light of the natural sun, and unable to see any other objects than those of this world...
    Lov1 2.181 24 If...from too much conversing with material objects, the soul was gross, and misplaced its satisfaction in the body, it reaped nothing but sorrow; body being unable to fulfil the promise which beauty holds out;...
    Pt1 3.24 12 I knew in my younger days the sculptor who made the statue of the youth which stands in the public garden. He was...unable to tell directly what made him happy or unhappy, but by wonderful indirections he could tell.
    NR 3.243 13 ...if we saw all things that really surround us we should be imprisoned and unable to move.
    PPh 4.45 22 Children cry, scream and stamp with fury, unable to express their desires.
    ET6 5.106 13 ...in my lectures [in England] I hesitated to read and threw out for its impertinence many a disparaging phrase which I had been accustomed to spin, about poor, thin, unable mortals;...
    F 6.20 19 ...the gods in the Norse heaven were unable to bind the Fenris Wolf...
    Bty 6.282 5 The boy had juster views when he gazed at the shells on the beach or the flowers in the meadow, unable to call them by their names, than the man in the pride of his nomenclature.
    DL 7.115 8 If [man]...is unable...it is because there is so much of his nature which is unlawfully withholden from him.
    PI 8.30 21 ...colder moods...insinuate, or, as it were, muffle the fact to suit the poverty or caprice of their expression...being unable to fuse and mould their words and images to fluid obedience.
    PI 8.51 26 Rhyme, being a kind of music, shares this advantage with music, that it has a privilege of speaking truth which all Philistia is unable to challenge.
    SA 8.83 1 We think a man unable and desponding. It is only that he is misplaced.
    PC 8.209 25 The fop is unable to cut the patriot in the street;...
    Dem1 10.25 2 Men who had never wondered at anything...have been unable to suppress their amazement at the disclosures of the somnambulist.
    Aris 10.53 22 ...I have seen a man of teeming brain come among these men [in a village], so full of his facts, so unable to suppress them, that he has poured out a river of knowledge to all comers...
    LS 11.13 18 It was only too probable that among the half-converted Pagans and Jews, any rite, any form, would find favor, whilst yet unable to comprehend the spiritual character of Christianity.
    HDC 11.71 22 It was...voted [in Concord], to raise one or more companies of minute-men...to provide arms and ammunition, that those who are unable to purchase them themselves, may have the advantage of them...
    EWI 11.103 1 For the negro, was the slave-ship to begin with, in whose filthy hold he sat in irons, unable to lie down;...
    AKan 11.258 7 ...the governor and legislature should neither slumber nor sleep till they have found out how to send effectual aid and comfort to these poor farmers [in Kansas], or else should resign their seats to those who can. But first let them...order funeral service to be said for the citizens whom they were unable to defend.
    FRep 11.541 10 Humanity asks...that democratic institutions shall be more thoughtful...for the welfare of sick and unable persons...
    MAng1 12.228 6 ...[Michelangelo] toiled so assiduously at this painful work [the Sistine Chapel ceiling], that, for a long time after, he was unable to see any picture but by holding it over his head.

unabsorbed, adj. (1)

    ET4 5.62 24 ...the rudiment of a structure matured in the tiger is said to be still found unabsorbed in the Caucasian man.

unaccommodating, adj. (1)

    ET18 5.302 9 ...this perfunctory hospitality puts no sweetness into [Englishmen's] unaccommodating manners...

unaccountable, adj. (1)

    LVB 11.90 15 ...notwithstanding the unaccountable apathy with which of late years the Indians have been sometimes abandoned to their enemies, it is not to be doubted that it is the good pleasure and the understanding of all humane persons in the Republic...that they shall be duly cared for;...

unaccountably, adv. (1)

    II 12.76 27 ...Number, Inspiration, Nature, Duty;-'t is very certain that these things have been hid...and, at certain privileged moments, emerge unaccountably into light.

unacknowledged, adj. (2)

    Nat 1.10 24 I am not alone and unacknowledged.
    ShP 4.197 19 ...in the whole society of English writers, a large unacknowledged debt [to Chaucer] is easily traced.

unacquainted, adj. (3)

    ET12 5.205 3 The whole expense, says Professor Sewel, of ordinary college tuition at Oxford, is about sixteen guineas a year. But this plausible statement may deceive a reader unacquainted with the fact that the principal teaching relied on is private tuition.
    Wom 11.421 7 The objection to [women's] voting is the same as is urged... against clergymen who take an active part in politics;-that if they are good clergymen they are unacquainted with the expediencies of politics...
    Milt1 12.262 1 ...[Milton] said...I cannot say that I am...unacquainted with those examples which the prime authors of eloquence have written in any learned tongue...

unadapted, adj. (1)

    ET4 5.52 10 Certain temperaments suit the sky and soil of England...whilst all the unadapted temperaments die out.

unadorned, adj. (1)

    Milt1 12.269 21 ...[Milton] threw himself, the flower of elegancy, on the side of the reeking conventicle; the side of humanity, but unlearned and unadorned.

unadvised, adj. (1)

    MoS 4.155 9 ...[the skeptic] stands for...a cool head and whatever serves to keep it cool; no unadvised industry...

unaffected, adj. (5)

    SR 2.49 17 Who...having observed, [can] observe again from the same unaffected, unbiased, unbribable, unaffrighted innocence,-must always be formidable.
    DL 7.103 14 [The nestler's] unaffected lamentations when he lifts up his voice on high...soften all hearts to pity...
    Farm 7.152 27 The great elements with which [the farmer] deals cannot leave him unaffected...
    SlHr 10.439 25 ...[Samuel Hoar] had a strong, unaffected interest in farms...
    Shak1 11.451 11 The unaffected joy of the comedy,-[Shakespeare] lives in a gale,-contrasted with the grandeur of the tragedy, where he stoops to no contrivance, no pulpiting...

unaffecting, adj. (5)

    Nat 1.15 16 ...where the particular objects are mean and unaffecting, the landscape which they compose is round and symmetrical.
    Nat 1.75 3 To our blindness, these [common] things seem unaffecting.
    SL 2.147 18 The vale of Tempe, Tivoli and Rome are earth and water, rocks and sky. There are as good earth and water in a thousand places, yet how unaffecting!
    Exp 3.74 19 [Just persons] believe...that no right action of ours is quite unaffecting to our friends...
    Trag 12.410 25 In phlegmatic natures calamity is unaffecting, in shallow natures it is rhetorical.

unaffrighted, adj. (1)

    SR 2.49 18 Who...having observed, [can] observe again from the same unaffected, unbiased, unbribable, unaffrighted innocence,-must always be formidable.

unaided, adj. (1)

    WD 7.157 12 Machines can only second, not supply, [man's] unaided senses.

unalterable, adj. (3)

    Pt1 3.19 14 The spiritual fact remains unalterable...
    ET18 5.302 4 ...this [English] shop-rule had one magnificent effect. It extends its cold unalterable courtesy to political exiles of every opinion...
    SlHr 10.446 22 ...[Samuel Hoar's] countenance had an unalterable tranquillity and sweetness;...

unaltered, adj. (7)

    F 6.14 24 Lodged in the parent animal, [the vesicle] suffers changes which end in unsheathing miraculous capability in the unaltered vesicle...
    Elo2 8.126 2 Dr. Johnson said, There is in every nation...a certain mode of phraseology so consonant to the analogy and principles of its respective language as to remain settled and unaltered.
    Supl 10.169 1 The first valuable power in a reasonable mind, one would say, was...the power to receive things as they befall, and to transfer the picture of them to another mind unaltered.
    SlHr 10.437 18 ...when [Samuel Hoar] saw the day and the gods went against him, he withdrew, but with an unaltered belief.
    SlHr 10.439 5 ...when the votes of the Free States...had...betrayed the cause of freedom, [Samuel Hoar]...promptly withdrew, but with unaltered belief.
    SlHr 10.441 3 [Samuel Hoar] returned from courts or congresses to sit down, with unaltered humility, in the church or in the town-house...
    ACri 12.284 9 There is, in every nation...a certain mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to the analogy and principles of its respective language as to remain settled and unaltered.

unambitious, adj. (1)

    FRep 11.518 7 Hitherto government has been that of the single person or of the aristocracy. In this country the attempt to resist these elements, it is asserted, must throw us into the government...of an inferior class of professional politicians, who...thrust their unworthy minority into the place...of the good, industrious, well-taught but unambitious population...

unanalyzable, adj. (1)

    Cir 2.306 16 The last chamber, the last closet, [every man] must feel was never opened; there is always a residuum unknown, unanalyzable.

unanimity, n. (2)

    LS 11.3 5 In the history of the Church no subject has been more fruitful of controversy than the Lord's Supper. There never has been any unanimity in the understanding of its nature...
    RBur 11.440 1 I can only explain this singular unanimity [to celebrate Burns's anniversary] in a race which rarely acts together...by the fact that Robert Burns...represents in the mind of men to-day that great uprising of the middle class...

unanimous, adj. (14)

    MoS 4.175 9 I think that the intellect and moral sentiment are unanimous;...
    ET6 5.102 12 ...the one thing the English value is pluck. The word is not beautiful, but on the quality they signify by it the nation is unanimous.
    ET12 5.205 23 Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself...where fame and secular promotion are to be had for study, and in a direction which has the unanimous respect of all cultivated nations.
    Pow 6.65 15 [The Hoosiers and the Suckers] see, against the unanimous declarations of the people, how much crime the people will bear;...
    SA 8.93 25 Madame de Stael, by the unanimous consent of all who knew her, was the most extraordinary converser that was known in her time...
    Insp 8.270 15 They...cut off [the aboriginal man's] tail, set him on end, sent him to school and made him pay taxes, before he could begin to write his sad story for the compassion or the repudiation of his descendants, who are all but unanimous to disown him.
    SlHr 10.438 15 ...when...a deputation of gentlemen waited upon him in the hall to say they had come with the unanimous voice of the State to remove him by force...[Samuel Hoar] considered his duty discharged to the last point of possibility.
    HDC 11.53 19 It is piteous to see [the Indians'] self-distrust in...their unanimous entreaty to Captain Willard, to be their Recorder...
    HDC 11.81 27 The General Court...draughted a constitution, sent it here [to Concord], and asked the town whether they would have it for the law of the State? The town answered No, by a unanimous vote.
    LVB 11.95 4 Our counsellors and old statesmen here say that ten years ago they would have staked their lives on the affirmation that the proposed Indian measures could not be executed; that the unanimous country would put them down.
    ACiv 11.308 8 ...the statesman who shall break through the cobwebs of doubt, fear and petty cavil that lie in the way [of Emancipation], will be greeted by the unanimous thanks of mankind.
    EdAd 11.390 21 Let [a journal] now show its astuteness by...arguing diffusely every point on which men are long ago unanimous.
    FRep 11.524 7 The record of the election now and then alarms people by the all but unanimous choice of a rogue and a brawler.
    II 12.82 14 [A man] is strong by his genius, gets all his knowledge only through that aperture. Society is unanimous against his project.

unanimously, adv. (4)

    Chr1 3.107 26 There is a class of men...so eminently endowed with insight and virtue that they have been unanimously saluted as divine...
    Pol1 3.206 1 A nation of men unanimously bent on freedom or conquest can easily confound the arithmetic of statists...
    MoS 4.158 21 ...it is alleged that labor impairs the form and breaks the spirit of man, and the laborers cry unanimously, We have no thoughts.
    LS 11.24 2 My brethren...have recommended, unanimously, an adherence to the present form [of the Lord's Supper].

unannounced, adj. (2)

    Int 2.332 2 ...in a moment, and unannounced, the truth appears.
    Art1 2.368 8 [Beauty] will come, as always, unannounced...

unanswerable, adj. (2)

    Nat 1.3 21 Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable.
    MoS 4.171 8 The nonconformist and the rebel say all manner of unanswerable things against the existing republic...

unapparent, adj. (5)

    Pt1 3.14 25 The mighty heaven, said Proclus, exhibits, in its transfigurations, clear images of the splendor of intellectual perceptions; being moved in conjunction with the unapparent periods of intellectual natures.
    ET14 5.242 2 In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...the Zoroastrian definition of poetry, mystical, yet exact, apparent pictures of unapparent natures;...
    PI 8.19 20 ...Poets are standing transporters, whose employment consists... in producing apparent imitations of unapparent natures...
    PI 8.19 21 ...Poets are standing transporters, whose employment consists... in producing apparent imitations of unapparent natures, and inscribing things unapparent in the apparent fabrication of the world;...
    PI 8.20 1 ...mountains, crystals, plants, animals, are seen; that which makes them is not seen: these, then, are apparent copies of unapparent natures.

unappointed, adj. (1)

    F 6.5 16 On two days, it steads not to run from thy grave,/ The appointed, and the unappointed day;/...

unapprehended, adj. (1)

    SL 2.144 14 Those facts, words, persons, which dwell in [a man's] memory without his being able to say why, remain because they have a relation to him not less real for being as yet unapprehended.

unapproachable, adj. (1)

    Exp 3.72 5 I am ready...be born again into this new yet unapproachable America I have found in the West...

unapproached, adj. (1)

    PPh 4.78 19 How many ages have gone by, and [Plato] remains unapproached!

unappropriated, adj. (1)

    Schr 10.276 14 There is plenty of wild azote and carbon unappropriated, but it is nought till we have made it up into loaves and soup.

unarmed, adj. (6)

    MR 1.254 15 ...it would warm the heart to see how fast...the impotence of... lines of defence, would be superseded by this unarmed child [Love].
    Bhr 6.177 24 In Siberia a late traveller found men who could see the satellites of Jupiter with their unarmed eye.
    Cour 7.279 5 The other [bear] on George Nidiver/ Came on with dreadful pace:/ The hunter stood unarmed,/ And met him face to face./
    Cour 7.279 7 I say unarmed [the hunter] stood./ Against those frightful paws/ The rifle butt, or club of wood,/ Could stand no more than straws./
    Comc 8.163 26 ...in Euripides, the Bacchae, though unprovided of iron weapons, and unarmed, wounded their invaders with the boughs of trees which they carried...
    PerF 10.73 24 It is curious to see how a creature so feeble and vulnerable as a man, who, unarmed, is no match for the wild beasts...is yet able to subdue to his will these terrific [natural] forces...

unascertainable, adj. (1)

    Trag 12.407 25 ...this terror of contravening an unascertained and unascertainable will cannot co-exist with reflection...

unascertained, adj. (1)

    Trag 12.407 24 ...this terror of contravening an unascertained and unascertainable will cannot co-exist with reflection...

unashamed, adj. (1)

    NER 3.275 17 ...a naval and military honor...the acknowledgment of eminent merit,--have this lustre for each candidate that they enable him to walk erect and unashamed in the presence of some persons before whom he felt himself inferior.

unattainable, adj. (7)

    Lov1 2.179 13 Who can analyze the nameless charm which glances from one and another face and form? ... It is destroyed for the imagination by any attempt to refer it to organization. Nor does it point to any relations of friendship or love known and described in society, but...to a quite other and unattainable sphere...
    ET12 5.208 27 [An English gentleman] should...have bodily activity and strength, unattainable by our sedentary life in public offices.
    Bhr 6.197 14 Who dare assume to guide a youth, a maid, to perfect manners? the golden mean is...say frankly, unattainable.
    Prch 10.237 25 ...how rare and lofty, how unattainable, are the aims [the Church] labors to set before men!
    MMEm 10.404 1 All [Mary Moody Emerson's] language was happy, but... unattainable by talent...
    II 12.77 15 ...the beatitude of the Intellect seems to lie out of our volition, and to be unattainable as the sky...
    PPr 12.383 13 ...the truth of the present hour...is unattainable.

unattainable, n. (3)

    Lov1 2.180 12 ...of poetry the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavors after the unattainable.
    MoS 4.159 6 ...we ought to secure those advantages which we can command, and not risk them by clutching after the airy and unattainable.
    Bost 12.197 10 As an antidote to the spirit of commerce and of economy, the religious spirit-always...prompting the pursuit of the vast, the beautiful, the unattainable-was especially necessary to the culture of New England.

Unattainable, n. (1)

    Cir 2.301 20 This fact [that around every circle another can be drawn], as far as it symbolizes the moral fact of the Unattainable...may conveniently serve us to connect many illustrations of human power in every department.

unattained, adj. (1)

    Hist 2.7 9 ...all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist...describes [to each reader] his unattained but attainable self.

unattempted, adj. (4)

    LE 1.168 12 ...indeed any vegetation, any animation...are alike unattempted [by poets].
    Hsm1 2.259 14 [A woman] has a new and unattempted problem to solve...
    NER 3.276 26 ...[those who reject us]...urge us to new and unattempted performances.
    Milt1 12.261 3 ...soaring into unattempted strains, [Milton] made [English] capable of an unknown majesty...

unattended, adj. (1)

    SlHr 10.438 2 At the time when [Samuel Hoar] went to South Carolina...he was repeatedly warned that it was not safe for him...to take his daily walk... unattended by his friends...

unavailable, adj. (1)

    Chr1 3.100 8 ...the uncivil, unavailable man...he helps;...

unavailableness, n. (2)

    UGM 4.27 23 Every genius is defended from approach by quantities of unavailableness.
    PLT 12.7 19 There is really a grievous amount of unavailableness about men of wit.

unavailing, adj. (1)

    MAng1 12.225 18 By the treachery...of the general of the Republic, Malatesta Baglioni, all [Michelangelo's] skill was rendered unavailing...

unavoidable, adj. (3)

    Art1 2.366 19 Art makes the same effort which a sensual prosperity makes; namely...to do up the work as unavoidable...
    MoS 4.177 11 What front can we make against these unavoidable, victorious, maleficent forces?
    Milt1 12.278 22 ...as many poems have been written upon unfit society... yet have not been proceeded against...so should [Milton's plea for freedom of divorce] receive that charity which an angelic soul, suffering more keenly than others from the unavoidable evils of human life, is entitled to.

unavowable, adj. (1)

    DL 7.128 3 Happy will that house be...in which character marries, and not confusion and a miscellany of unavowable motives.

unawares, adv. (8)

    Hist 2.40 27 Broader and deeper we must write our annals...instead of this old chronology of selfishness and pride to which we have too long lent our eyes. Already that day...shines in on us at unawares...
    Comp 2.106 10 [The human soul] finds a tongue in literature unawares.
    Comp 2.107 10 It would seem there is always this vindictive circumstance stealing in at unawares...
    OS 2.284 27 ...all unawares the advancing soul has built and forged for itself a new condition...
    Wsp 6.199 20 [Fate] is Jove, who, deaf to prayers,/ Floods with blessings unawares./
    CbW 6.262 26 Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.
    Cour 7.278 19 ...They see two grizzly bears/ With hunger fierce and fell/ Rush at them unawares/ Right down the narrow dell./
    QO 8.204 13 ...the words overheard at unawares by the free mind, are trustworthy and fertile when obeyed...

unbalanced, adj. (2)

    SR 2.80 3 ...in all unbalanced minds the classification is idolized...
    Let 12.399 15 ...we should not know where to find in literature any record of so much unbalanced intellectuality...as our young men pretend to.

unbar, v. (1)

    Mrs1 3.130 24 [Fashion's] doors unbar instantaneously to a natural claim of their own kind.

unbarred, v. (1)

    Con 1.323 7 In the civil wars of France, Montaigne alone, among all the French gentry, kept his castle gates unbarred...

unbarrelable, adj. (1)

    LE 1.171 15 ...Truth is...so untransportable and unbarrelable a commodity...

unbecoming, adj. (3)

    Gts 3.162 21 We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming.
    ET6 5.105 20 [The Englishman] is never betrayed into any curiosity or unbecoming emotion.
    FRep 11.529 18 The men, the women, all over this land shrill their exclamations of impatience and indignation at what is short-coming or is unbecoming in the government...

unbelief, n. (18)

    DSA 1.143 18 ...in these two errors...I find the causes of...a wasting unbelief.
    LT 1.285 5 [The intellectual class's] unbelief arises out of a greater Belief;...
    SL 2.157 4 If [the lawyer] does not believe [his client's innocence] his unbelief will appear to the jury...
    SL 2.157 6 If [the lawyer] does not believe [his client's innocence] his unbelief will appear to the jury...and will become their unbelief.
    Fdsp 2.196 10 ...in the golden hour of friendship we are surprised with shades of suspicion and unbelief.
    NER 3.270 9 When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be...sensualized by unbelief.
    SwM 4.138 13 That pure malignity can exist is the extreme proposition of unbelief.
    MoS 4.159 21 This then is the right ground of the skeptic,--this of consideration, of self-containing; not at all of unbelief;...
    MoS 4.171 18 ...we...reject a sour, dumpish unbelief...
    MoS 4.180 20 Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
    GoW 4.277 1 ...[Goethe]...looked for [the Devil]...in every shade of coldness, selfishness and unbelief that...darkens over the human thought...
    Wsp 6.220 19 Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.
    SovE 10.206 14 All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean.
    Prch 10.220 16 ...the virtuous sentiment appears arrayed against the nominal religion, and the true men are hunted as unbelievers, and burned. Then the good sense of the people wakes up so far as to take tacit part with them, to cast off reverence for the Church; and there follows an age of unbelief.
    Prch 10.221 12 The understanding...because it has found absurdities to which the sentiment of veneration is attached, sneers at veneration; so that analysis has run to seed in unbelief.
    Prch 10.229 3 Anything but unbelief...
    FSLN 11.244 24 ...I hope we have reached the end of our unbelief...
    II 12.68 3 One often sees in the embittered acuteness of critics snuffing heresy from afar, their own unbelief...

Unbelief, n. (1)

    LT 1.282 4 ...our torment is Unbelief...

unbeliefs, n. (3)

    Exp 3.75 13 ...out of unbeliefs a creed shall be formed.
    MoS 4.175 19 The beliefs and unbeliefs appear to be structural;...
    SovE 10.213 18 [The man of this age] should be taught all skepticisms and unbeliefs...

unbelieved, adj. (1)

    MLit 12.335 25 [The Genius of the time] will describe...the now unbelieved possibility of simple living...

unbeliever, n. (1)

    MoS 4.181 15 ...presently the unbeliever, for love of belief, burns the believer.

unbelievers, n. (2)

    MR 1.250 8 ...I see at once how paltry is all this generation of unbelievers...
    Prch 10.220 12 Of course the virtuous sentiment appears arrayed against the nominal religion, and the true men are hunted as unbelievers, and burned.

unbelieving, adj. (1)

    NR 3.242 6 After taxing Goethe as a courtier, artificial, unbelieving, worldly,--I took up this book of Helena, and found him an Indian of the wilderness...

unbending, adj. (1)

    Exp 3.73 11 This vigor is...in the highest degree unbending.

unbent, adj. (1)

    Clbs 7.247 19 Men are unbent and social at table;...

unbespoken, adj. (1)

    Wsp 6.203 13 ...as [the Shakers] go with perfect sympathy to their tasks in the field or shop, so are they inclined for a ride or a journey at the same instant, and the horses come up with the family carriage unbespoken to the door.

unbiased, adj. (1)

    SR 2.49 17 Who...having observed, [can] observe again from the same unaffected, unbiased, unbribable, unaffrighted innocence,-must always be formidable.

unbidden, adj. (1)

    Plu 10.309 20 ...[Plutarch]...despises the Epicharmian disputations: as, that...he that was yesterday invited to supper, the next night comes an unbidden guest, for that he is quite another person.

unbind, v. (2)

    Supl 10.179 6 There is no writing which has more electric power to unbind and animate the torpid intellect than the bold Eastern muse.
    EPro 11.314 1 To-day unbind the captive,/ So only are ye unbound;/ Lift up a people from the dust,/ Trump of their rescue, sound!/

unblamed, adj. (2)

    Suc 7.310 26 Which of [the most sanguine] has not...found themselves awkward or tedious or incapable of study, thought or heroism, and only hoped by good sense and fidelity to do what they could and pass unblamed?
    PI 8.1 19 ...[The people of the sky] Teach him gladly to postpone/ Pleasures to another stage/ Beyond the scope of human age,/ Freely as task at eve undone/ Waits unblamed to-morrow's sun.

unbodily, adj. (1)

    Imtl 8.351 27 Thinking the soul as unbodily among bodies, firm among fleeting things, the wise man casts off all grief.

unbolted, adj. (1)

    War 11.162 11 You forget that the quiet...which lets the wagon go unguarded and the farmhouse unbolted, rests on the perfect understanding of all men that the musket, the halter and the jail stand behind there...

unborn, adj. (6)

    AmS 1.90 7 ...[the active soul] every man contains within him, although in almost all men obstructed and as yet unborn.
    Wth 6.119 27 Nor is any investment so permanent that it can be allowed to remain without incessant watching, as the history of each attempt to lock up an inheritance through two generations for an unborn inheritor may show.
    Ctr 6.139 17 ...the old English poet Gascoigne says, A boy is better unborn than untaught.
    QO 8.199 1 Swedenborg threw a formidable theory into the world, that every soul existed in a society of souls, from which all its thoughts passed into it, as the blood of the mother circulates in her unborn child;...
    Imtl 8.351 23 Unborn, eternal, [the soul] is not slain, though the body is slain;...
    SHC 11.431 14 ...[trees] grow when we sleep, they grew when we were unborn.

unborn, n. (1)

    Int 2.335 14 [The thought] seems, for the time...to dictate to the unborn.

unbosom, v. (1)

    Boks 7.192 4 In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends...and though they...are eager to give us a sign and unbosom themselves, it is the law of their limbo that they must not speak until spoken to;...

unbound, v. (2)

    Civ 7.25 21 In man [the organs] are all unbound and full of joyful action.
    EPro 11.314 2 To-day unbind the captive,/ So only are ye unbound;/ Lift up a people from the dust,/ Trump of their rescue, sound!/

unboundable, adj. (1)

    AmS 1.108 16 The human mind cannot be enshrined in a person who shall set a barrier on any one side to this unbounded, unboundable empire.

unbounded, adj. (6)

    AmS 1.108 16 The human mind cannot be enshrined in a person who shall set a barrier on any one side to this unbounded, unboundable empire.
    LT 1.272 17 [The moral sentiment] alone can make a man other than he is. Here or nowhere resides unbounded energy, unbounded power.
    LT 1.272 18 [The moral sentiment] alone can make a man other than he is. Here or nowhere resides unbounded energy, unbounded power.
    Exp 3.72 23 Fortune, Minerva, Muse, Holy Ghost,--these are quaint names, too narrow to cover this unbounded substance.
    Elo1 7.69 13 ...[the Sicilians]...were it only by the physical strength exerted in telling the story, keep the table in unbounded excitement.
    PLT 12.28 3 An individual mind...is a fixation or momentary eddy in which certain services and powers are taken up and minister in petty niches and localities, and then, being released, return to the unbounded soul of the world.

unbounded, n. (1)

    PLT 12.36 18 [Pan]...was not represented by any outward image; a terror sometimes, at others a placid omnipotence. Such homage did the Greek... not fond of the extravagant and unbounded-pay to unscrutable force we call Instinct...

unbribable, adj. (1)

    SR 2.49 18 Who...having observed, [can] observe again from the same unaffected, unbiased, unbribable, unaffrighted innocence,-must always be formidable.

unbridled, adj. (1)

    Comp 2.106 6 How secret art thou who dwellest in the highest heavens in silence, O thou only great God, sprinkling with an unwearied providence certain penal blindnesses upon such as have unbridled desires!

unbroken, adj. (14)

    MN 1.199 26 ...nature descends always from above. It is unbroken obedience.
    SwM 4.133 6 The universe [in Swedenborg's system of the world] is a gigantic crystal, all whose atoms and laminae lie in uninterrupted order and with unbroken unity...
    ET4 5.54 3 ...it is fine for us to speculate in face of unbroken traditions...
    ET11 5.177 6 The pretence is that the [English] noble is of unbroken descent from the Norman...
    ET11 5.188 21 In these [English] manors...the antiquary finds the frailest Roman jar...keeping the series of history unbroken...
    ET11 5.197 1 The fiction with which the noble and the bystander equally please themselves [in England] is that the former is of unbroken descent from the Norman...
    ET13 5.219 14 The [English] national temperament deeply enjoys the unbroken order and tradition of its church;...
    ET14 5.253 26 ...in England, one hermit finds this fact, and another finds that, and lives and dies ignorant of its value. There are great exceptions... adding sometimes the divination of the old masters to the unbroken power of labor in the English mind.
    ET18 5.301 20 England keeps open doors, as a trading country must, to all nations. It is one of their fixed ideas, and wrathfully supported by their laws in unbroken sequence for a thousand years.
    Wsp 6.219 12 ...if in sidereal ages gravity and projection keep their craft...a secreter gravitation, a secreter projection rule not less tyrannically in human history, and keep the balance of power from age to age unbroken.
    PC 8.224 7 Here stretches...out of conception even, this vast Nature...an unbroken unity...
    LS 11.2 2 The word unto the prophet spoken/ Was writ on tables yet unbroken;/...
    Koss 11.397 2 Sir [Kossuth],-The fatigue of your many public visits, in such unbroken succession as may compare with the toils of a campaign, forbid us to detain you long.
    MAng1 12.236 15 The combined desire to fulfil, in everlasting stone, the conceptions of his mind, and to complete his worthy offering to Almighty God, sustained [Michelangelo] through numberless vexations with unbroken spirit.

unbuckling, v. (1)

    AKan 11.261 9 ...of Kansas, the President says; Let the complainants go to the courts; though he knows that when the poor plundered farmer comes to the court, he finds the ringleader who has robbed him dismounting from his own horse, and unbuckling his knife to sit as his judge.

unbuttoned, adj. (1)

    FRep 11.526 26 ...instead of the doleful experience of the European economist, who tells us, In almost all countries the condition of the great body of the people is poor and miserable, here that same great body has arrived at a sloven plenty...an unbuttoned comfort...

uncalculable, adj. (1)

    Exp 3.69 19 The results of life are uncalculated and incalculable.

uncalculated, adj. (3)

    Exp 3.69 18 The results of life are uncalculated and incalculable.
    ET10 5.156 11 Every [English] household exhibits an exact economy, and nothing of that uncalculated headlong expenditure which families use in America.
    ALin 11.329 5 We meet under the gloom of a calamity [death of Lincoln] which darkens down over the minds of good men in all civil society, as the fearful tidings travel...like the shadow of an uncalculated eclipse over the planet.

uncalculating, adj. (1)

    MMEm 10.408 23 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes...My oddities were never designed,-effect of an uncalculating constitution, at first...

uncanny, adj. (2)

    ET16 5.279 10 We [Emerson and Carlyle] walked in and out and took again and again a fresh look at the uncanny stones [of Stonehenge].
    TPar 11.287 5 The old religions have a charm for most minds which it is a little uncanny to disturb.

uncanonical, adj. (1)

    MoS 4.165 6 ...though a biblical plainness coupled with a most uncanonical levity may shut [Montaigne's] pages to many sensitive readers, yet the offence is superficial.

Uncanoonuc, Mount, New Ham (2)

    Wth 6.122 20 When a citizen...comes out and buys land in the country, his first thought is to a fine outlook from his windows;...a sunset every day, bathing...the peaks of Monadnoc and Uncanoonuc.
    CL 12.157 11 Can you...bring home the tops of Uncanoonuc?

uncarpeted, adj. (1)

    EzRy 10.383 22 I am sure all who remember both will associate [Ezra Ripley's] form with whatever was grave and droll in the old, cold, unpainted, uncarpeted, square-pewed meeting-house...

unceasing, adj. (4)

    Nat 1.40 19 All things...have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.
    YA 1.372 22 Remark the unceasing effort throughout nature at somewhat better than the actual creatures...
    Hist 2.34 2 ...[Goethe's Helena]...awakens the reader's invention and fancy...by the unceasing succession of brisk shocks of surprise.
    Milt1 12.263 23 [Milton says] Nor did Ceres, according to the fable, ever seek her daughter Proserpine with such unceasing solicitude as I have sought this tou kalou idean, this perfect model of the beautiful in all forms and appearances of things.

uncertain, adj. (12)

    DSA 1.134 11 ...the goodliest of institutions becomes an uncertain and inarticulate voice.
    Fdsp 2.189 3 ...The world uncertain comes and goes,/ The lover rooted stays./
    Chr1 3.103 20 ...when [your friends] stand with uncertain timid looks of respect and half-dislike...you may begin to hope.
    PPh 4.44 9 It is said [Plato] went farther, into Babylonia: this is uncertain.
    NMW 4.251 10 Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions [said Bonaparte]...
    Suc 7.303 2 [The greatest men] may well speak in this uncertain manner of their knowledge...
    Dem1 10.15 16 The belief that particular individuals are attended by a good fortune which makes them desirable associates in any enterprise of uncertain success, exists not only among those who take part in political and military projects...
    Edc1 10.150 17 ...the youth of genius...are irritable, uncertain, explosive, solitary...
    HDC 11.33 6 Sometimes passing through thickets...and [the pilgrims'] feet clambering over the crossed trees, which when they missed, they sunk into an uncertain bottom in water...
    PLT 12.11 12 Let me have your attention to this dangerous subject [the laws and powers of the Intellect], which we will cautiously approach on different sides of this dim and perilous lake, so attractive, so delusive. We have had so many guides and so many failures. And now the world is still uncertain whether the pool has been sounded or not.
    Trag 12.409 6 A low, haggard sprite sits by our side, casting the fashion of uncertain evils...
    Trag 12.411 5 ...a terror of freezing to death that seizes a man in a winter midnight on the moors; a fright at uncertain sounds heard by a family at night in the cellar or on the stairs...are no tragedy...

uncertainties, n. (2)

    OS 2.293 5 [God's presence] inspires in man an infallible trust. He has...the sight, that the best is the true, and may in that thought easily dismiss all particular uncertainties and fears...
    EPro 11.319 5 ...an event [Emancipation] worth the dreadful war, worth its costs and uncertainties, seems now to be close before us.

uncertainty, n. (4)

    AmS 1.101 16 ...[the scholar] takes...the frequent uncertainty and loss of time, which are the nettles...in the way of the self-relying...
    LT 1.283 6 ...[men] pine to be employed, but are paralyzed by the uncertainty what they should do.
    Chr2 10.113 11 ...the whole science of theology [is] of great uncertainty...
    Edc1 10.154 25 ...in this world of hurry and distraction, who can wait for the returns of reason and the conquest of self; in the uncertainty too whether that will ever come?

Uncertainty, n. (1)

    LT 1.282 4 ...our torment is...the Uncertainty as to what we ought to do;...

unchallenged, adj. (2)

    DSA 1.139 9 ...[the vain words] clatter and echo unchallenged.
    Mrs1 3.131 18 A sainted soul is always elegant, and, if it will, passes unchallenged into the most guarded ring.

unchangeable, adj. (1)

    Pray 12.356 13 I [Augustine] entered and discerned with the eye of my soul...even beyond my soul and mind itself, the Light unchangeable.

unchangeableness, n. (1)

    PPr 12.387 16 The revelation of Reason is this of the unchangeableness of the fact of humanity under all its subjective aspects;...

unchanged, adj. (4)

    Nat 1.5 8 Nature, in the common sense, refers to essences unchanged by man;...
    Bty 6.295 10 In a house that I know, I have noticed a block of spermaceti lying about closets and mantelpieces, for twenty years together, simply because the tallow-man gave it the form of a rabbit; and I suppose it may continue to be lugged about unchanged for a century.
    Insp 8.283 8 ...[In The Harbingers, Herbert]...consoles himself that his own faith and the divine life in him remain to him unchanged, unharmed.
    SlHr 10.438 23 ...when the mob of Charleston was assembled in the streets before his hotel...[Samuel Hoar] considered his duty discharged to the last point of possibility. The force was apparent and irresistible;...and he said, Well, gentlemen, since it is your pleasure to use force, I must go. But his opinion was unchanged.

uncharitable, adj. (1)

    SR 2.51 16 ...never varnish your hard, uncharitable ambition with this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off.

unchastised, adj. (1)

    Comp 2.107 18 ...in nature nothing can be given, all things are sold. This is that ancient doctrine of Nemesis, who...lets no offence go unchastised.

unchastity, n. (1)

    SwM 4.127 22 ...in the real or spiritual world the nuptial union is not momentary [to Swedenborg], but incessant and total; and chastity not a local, but a universal virtue; unchastity being discovered as much in the trading, or planting, or speaking, or philosophizing, as in generation;...

unchoked, adj. (1)

    UGM 4.15 27 ...these unchoked channels and floodgates of expression [in Shakspeare] are only health or fortunate constitution.

unchosen, adj. (1)

    Mem 12.106 15 [The bright school-girl's] is a bushel-basket memory of all unchosen knowledge...

unchristian, adj. (1)

    LS 11.21 8 ...every practice is Christian which praises itself, and every practice unchristian which condemns itself.

unchurch, v. (1)

    ET13 5.226 18 ...when wealth accrues to a chaplaincy, a bishopric, or rectorship, it requires moneyed men for its stewards, who will give it another direction than to the mystics of their day. Of course, money...will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.

uncivil, adj. (3)

    Tran 1.342 20 ...[Society] saith, Whoso goes to walk alone...declares all to be unfit to be his companions; it is very uncivil, nay, insulting;...
    Chr1 3.100 8 ...the uncivil, unavailable man...he helps;...
    Bhr 6.193 24 ...such was the eloquence and good humor of the monk [Basle], that wherever he went he was received gladly and civilly treated even by the most uncivil angels;...

Uncle Joel's, n. (1)

    Supl 10.168 13 Uncle Joel's news is always true, said a person to me with obvious satisfaction...

uncle, n. (8)

    Tran 1.344 6 Love me, [Transcendentalists] say, but do not ask who is my cousin and my uncle.
    Fdsp 2.208 7 A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle.
    PPh 4.72 9 Plain old uncle as [Socrates] was...the rumor ran that on one or two occasions, in the war with Boeotia, he had shown a determination which had covered the retreat of a troop;...
    ET7 5.117 25 Geoffrey of Monmouth says of King Aurelius, uncle of Arthur, that above all things he hated a lie.
    PI 8.62 13 ...said Merlin...I taught my mistress that whereby she hath imprisoned me in such a manner that none can set me free. Certes, Merlin, replied Sir Gawain, of that I am right sorrowful, and so will King Arthur, my uncle, be...
    MMEm 10.400 20 One of [Mary Moody Emerson's] tasks, it appears, was to watch for the approach of the deputy-sheriff, who might come to...to arrest the uncle for debt.
    MMEm 10.417 24 My [Mary Moody Emerson's] uncle has been the means of lessening my property.
    HDC 11.60 23 ...his brother, his uncle, his sister, and his beloved squaw being taken or slain, [King Philip] was at last shot down by an Indian deserter...

unclean, adj. (3)

    AmS 1.113 10 ...[Swedenborg]...has given in epical parables a theory...of unclean and fearful things.
    MR 1.235 6 ...we must begin to consider if it were not the nobler part... abstaining from whatever is dishonest and unclean, to take each of us bravely his part...
    Grts 8.315 20 Diderot was...unclean as the society in which he lived;...

uncles, n. (4)

    ET4 5.65 21 The American [in England] has arrived at the old mansion-house, and finds himself among uncles, aunts and grandsires.
    DL 7.104 24 ...uncles, aunts, grandsires, grandams, fall an easy prey [to the young enchanter]...
    Let 12.395 1 One of the [letter] writers relentingly says, What shall my uncles and aunts do without me?...
    Let 12.395 7 One of the [letter] writers relentingly says, What shall my uncles and aunts do without me? and desires distinctly to be understood...to propose...to begin the enterprise of concentration by concentrating all uncles and aunts in one delightful village by themselves!...

unclosed, v. (1)

    Art2 7.50 23 ...in the moment or in the successive moments when that form [of a work of art] was seen, the iron lids of Reason were unclosed...

unclothed, adj. (1)

    MAng1 12.223 3 Seeing these works [of art], we appreciate the taste which led Michael Angelo...to cover the walls of churches with unclothed figures...

uncoiling, v. (1)

    ET18 5.303 17 ...who would see the uncoiling of that tremendous spring... must follow the swarms which pouring out now for two hundred years from the British islands, have sailed and rode and traded and planted through all climates...

uncomfortable, adj. (6)

    YA 1.377 2 ...when peace comes, the nobles prove very whimsical and uncomfortable masters;...
    Mrs1 3.141 16 The favorites of society...are able men...who have no uncomfortable egotism...
    ET8 5.133 11 There are multitudes of rude young English...who...have made the English traveller a proverb for uncomfortable and offensive manners.
    Bhr 6.182 22 A calm and resolute bearing...and the art of hiding all uncomfortable feeling, are essential to the courtier;...
    Wsp 6.211 12 If a pickpocket intrude into the society of gentlemen, they exert what moral force they have, and he finds himself uncomfortable and glad to get away.
    PC 8.232 16 ...wherever high society exists it is very well able to exclude pretenders. The intruder finds himself uncomfortable, and quickly departs to his own gang.

uncommanded, adj. (1)

    PLT 12.37 9 If we could retain our early innocence, we might trust our feet uncommanded to take the right path to our friend in the woods.

uncommitted, adj. (2)

    PI 8.37 3 ...[the poet] is...silent, uncommitted or in love, as his heart leads him.
    ALin 11.336 23 ...what if it should turn out, in the unfolding of the web, that [Lincoln] had reached the term;...that...what remained to be done required new and uncommitted hands...

uncommon, adj. (4)

    SR 2.79 12 If [a new mind] prove a mind of uncommon activity and power...it imposes its classification on other men...
    Int 2.336 13 In common hours we have the same facts as in the uncommon or inspired...
    Elo2 8.115 7 Uncommon boys follow uncommon men...
    LLNE 10.333 27 [Everett]...speaking, walking, sitting, was as much aloof and uncommon as a star.

uncommonly, adv. (1)

    EWI 11.116 15 We were told that the dress of the negroes [in Antigua] on that occasion [of emancipation in the West Indies] was uncommonly simple and modest.

uncomprehended, adj. (1)

    SwM 4.102 18 A colossal soul, [Swedenborg] lies vast abroad on his times, uncomprehended by them...

unconcealable, adj. (1)

    Bhr 6.170 13 The power of manners is incessant,--an element as unconcealable as fire.

unconcealed, adj. (1)

    Tran 1.346 7 By their unconcealed dissatisfaction [youths] expose our poverty and the insignificance of man to man.

unconcern, n. (1)

    SL 2.151 21 [The world] leaves every man, with profound unconcern, to set his own rate.

unconcerned, adj. (1)

    EPro 11.316 23 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when an orator... announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles involved;...a new audience is found in the heart of the assembly,-an audience hitherto passive and unconcerned...

unconditional, adj. (1)

    ET5 5.83 8 ...in high departments [the English] are cramped and sterile. But the unconditional surrender to facts, and the choice of means to reach their ends, are as admirable as with ants and bees.

unconditioned, adj. (1)

    Nat 1.55 9 The problem of philosophy...is, for all that exists conditionally, to find a ground unconditioned and absolute.

unconditioned, n. (1)

    Supl 10.171 24 If man loves the conditioned, he also loves the unconditioned.

uncongenial, adj. (1)

    ET14 5.245 26 [Hallam] passes in silence, or dismisses with a kind of contempt, the profounder masters: a lover of ideas is not only uncongenial, but unintelligible.

unconnected, adj. (2)

    PPh 4.50 6 What is the great end of all [said Krishna], you shall now learn from me. It is soul...unconnected with unrealities...
    PPo 8.243 11 Gnomic verses...were always current in the East; and if the poem is long, it is only a string of unconnected verses.

unconquerable, adj. (1)

    War 11.167 2 At a certain stage of his progress, the man fights, if he be of sound body and mind. At a certain higher stage, he...is alert to repel injury, and of an unconquerable heart.

unconquerable, n. (1)

    Shak1 11.451 26 [Shakespeare's] mind has a superiority such that the universities should read lectures on him, and conquer the unconquerable if they can.

unconquered, adj. (2)

    SR 2.48 7 [Children's] mind being whole, their eye is as yet unconquered...
    PPh 4.77 25 ...the bitten world holds the biter fast by his own teeth. There he perishes: unconquered nature lives on and forgets him.

unconscious, adj. (19)

    Nat 1.35 24 That which was unconscious truth, becomes...a part of the domain of knowledge...
    Nat 1.46 18 ...when [our friend] has...become an object of thought, and, whilst his character retains all its unconscious effect, is converted in the mind into solid and sweet wisdom, - it is a sign to us that his office is closing...
    AmS 1.96 14 The new deed...remains for a time immersed in our unconscious life.
    OS 2.285 21 We are all discerners of spirits. That diagnosis lies aloft in our life or unconscious power.
    Int 2.337 18 ...as soon as we let our will go and let the unconscious states ensue, see what cunning draughtsmen we are!
    PPh 4.45 21 The first period of a nation, as of an individual, is the period of unconscious strength.
    ET11 5.185 13 If one asks...what service this class [English nobility] have rendered?--uses appear, or they would have perished long ago. Some of these are easily enumerated, others more subtle make a part of unconscious history.
    ET14 5.245 19 Hallam...is unconscious of the deep worth which lies in the mystics...
    Art2 7.38 14 The utterance of thought and emotion in speech and action may be conscious or unconscious.
    Art2 7.38 15 The sucking child is an unconscious actor.
    Art2 7.38 17 The man in an ecstasy of fear or anger is an unconscious actor.
    Art2 7.39 10 Relatively to themselves, the bee, the bird, the beaver, have no art; for what they do they do instinctively; but relatively to the Supreme Being, they have. And the same is true of all unconscious action: relatively to the doer, it is instinct, relatively to the First Cause, it is Art.
    DL 7.105 7 The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so...enables us to live over the unconscious history...
    Farm 7.152 27 The great elements with which [the farmer] deals cannot leave him...unconscious of his ministry;...
    Comc 8.158 6 Unconscious creatures do the whole will of wisdom.
    PPo 8.264 25 So remained [the birds], sunk in wonder,/ Thoughtless in deepest thinking,/ And quite unconscious of themselves./ Speechless prayed they to the Highest/ To open this secret,/ And to unlock Thou and We./
    LLNE 10.357 22 ...[the Fourierists] were unconscious prophets of a true state of society;...
    EzRy 10.392 4 ...often, though quite unconscious of it, [Ezra Ripley's] speech was a satire on the loose, voluminous, draggle-tail periods of other speakers.
    MMEm 10.430 3 If one could choose, and without crime be gibbeted,- were it not altogether better than the long drooping away by age without mentality or devotion? The vulture and crow...unconscious of any deformity in the mutilated body, would relish their meal...

unconscious, n. (2)

    Nat 1.65 1 [The world] is...a projection of God in the unconscious.
    AmS 1.95 1 ...the transition through which [thought] passes from the unconscious to the conscious, is action.

unconsciously, adv. (6)

    Nat 1.30 18 Hundreds of writers may be found...who feed unconsciously on the language created by the primary writers of the country...
    OS 2.278 15 [The soul] broods over every society, and they unconsciously seek for it in each other.
    ET5 5.85 21 In war, the Englishman looks to his means. He is of the opinion of Civilis...whom Tacitus reports as holding that the gods are on the side of the strongest;--a sentence which Bonaparte unconsciously translated, when he said that he had noticed that Providence always favored the heaviest battalion.
    ET9 5.148 27 There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal.
    Art2 7.38 18 A large part of our habitual actions are unconsciously done...
    Art2 7.38 19 ...most of our necessary words are unconsciously said.

unconsciousness, n. (3)

    Hist 2.26 9 [The Greeks] combine the energy of manhood with the engaging unconsciousness of childhood.
    Int 2.327 9 ...any record of our fancies or reflections, disentangled from the web of our unconsciousness, becomes an object impersonal and immortal.
    Chr1 3.106 22 How captivating is [children's] devotion to their favorite books...as feeling that they have a stake in that book;...and especially the total solitude of the critic, the Patmos of thought from which he writes, in unconsciousness of any eyes that shall ever read this writing.

unconsidered, adj. (2)

    Elo1 7.68 22 ...listen to a poor Irishwoman recounting some experience of hers. Her speech flows like a river,--so unconsidered...
    AsSu 11.251 7 When the same reproach [of writing his speeches] was cast on the first orator of ancient times by some caviller of his day, he said, I should be ashamed to come with one unconsidered word before such an assembly.

unconstitutional, adj. (1)

    HDC 11.68 19 ...we cannot but be alarmed at the great majority, in the British parliament, for the imposition of unconstitutional taxes on the colonies;...

uncontainable, adj. (2)

    Lov1 2.169 3 Nature, uncontainable...anticipates already a benevolence which shall lose all particular regards in its general light.
    II 12.78 3 ...it is the curious property of truth to be uncontainable and ever enlarging.

uncontained, adj. (1)

    Nat 1.10 15 I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty.

uncontradicted, adj. (2)

    ET8 5.132 14 [Young Englishmen] stoutly carry into every nook and corner of the earth their turbulent sense; leaving no lie uncontradicted;...
    PI 8.52 8 You shall not speak ideal truth in prose uncontradicted...

uncontrollable, adj. (3)

    NER 3.282 7 ...[our other self] holds uncontrollable communication with the enemy...
    Supl 10.176 22 ...[Nature] creates in the East the uncontrollable yearning to escape from limitation into the vast and boundless;...
    ChiE 11.470 1 Nature creates in the East the uncontrollable yearning to escape from limitation into the vast and boundless...

uncontrolled, adj. (1)

    MMEm 10.410 1 ...we lose sight of the first necessity,-here too amid works red with default in all great and grand and infinite aims. Yet with intentions disinterested, though uncontrolled by proper reverence for others.

unconvertibility, n. (1)

    SA 8.105 23 A little experience acquaints us with the unconvertibility of the sentimentalist...

unconvinced, adj. (1)

    Bost 12.203 5 ...there is always [in Boston] a minority unconvinced...

uncorrupt, adj. (2)

    Nat2 3.182 1 The men, though young, having tasted the first drop from the cup of thought, are already dissipated: the maples and ferns are still uncorrupt;...
    ET4 5.66 11 The bronze monuments of crusaders lying cross-legged in the Temple Church at London...please...mainly by that uncorrupt youth in the face of manhood, which is daily seen in the streets of London.

uncorrupted, adj. (2)

    Farm 7.153 27 That uncorrupted behavior which we admire in animals and in young children belongs to [the farmer]...
    CW 12.178 19 That uncorrupted behavior which we admire in the animals, and in young children, belongs also to...the man who lives in the presence of Nature.

uncountable, adj. (1)

    Thor 10.482 26 I put on some hemlock-boughs, and the rich salt crackling of their leaves was like mustard to the ear, the crackling of uncountable regiments.

uncourtly, adj. (1)

    Milt1 12.255 5 Lord Bacon...shrinks and falters before the absolute and uncourtly Puritan [Milton].

uncover, v. (7)

    SwM 4.112 8 [Swedenborg]...sometimes sought to uncover those secret recesses where Nature is sitting at the fires in the depths of her laboratory;...
    MoS 4.155 15 ...if we uncover the last facts of our knowledge, you are spinning like bubbles in a river...
    Wsp 6.215 17 Let us...dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which...pervade and govern.
    WD 7.179 22 ...him I reckon the most learned scholar...who can unfold the theory of this particular Wednesday. Can he uncover the ligaments concealed from all but piety...
    Boks 7.190 20 A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years have [in the smallest chosen library] set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid and inaccessible...but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us...
    PPo 8.256 22 Accept whatever befalls; uncover thy brow from thy locks;/ Never to me nor to thee was option imparted;/...
    Chr2 10.114 16 Men will learn...to make morals the absolute test, and so uncover and drive out the false religions.

uncovered, adj. (2)

    ET16 5.277 26 The temple [Stonehenge] is circular and uncovered...
    CL 12.138 22 [Linnaeus] found out that a terrible distemper which sometimes proves fatal in the north of Europe, was occasioned by an animalcule...which falls from the air on the face, or hand, or other uncovered part...

uncovered, v. (3)

    PC 8.227 10 There is not a person here present to whom omens that should astonish have not predicted his future, have not uncovered his past.
    Edc1 10.146 3 ...Sir Charles Fellowes...being at Xanthus...had seen a Turk point with his staff to some carved work on the corner of a stone almost buried in the soil. Fellowes...looking about him, observed more blocks and fragments like this. He returned to the spot, procured laborers and uncovered many blocks.
    HDC 11.46 27 In a town-meeting, the great secret of political science was uncovered...

uncovering, v. (2)

    F 6.8 2 Without uncovering what does not concern us...the forms of the shark...are hints of ferocity in the interiors of nature.
    EzRy 10.393 21 An eminent skill [Ezra Ripley] had...in uncovering the bandage from a sore place, and applying the surgeon's knife with a truly surgical spirit.

uncovers, v. (4)

    MoS 4.170 24 We hearken to the man of science, because we anticipate the sequence in natural phenomena which he uncovers.
    ET11 5.183 26 The hardest radical [in England] instantly uncovers and changes his tone to a lord.
    ET16 5.279 4 Some diligent Fellowes or Layard will arrive...at the whole history [of Stonehenge], by that exhaustive British sense and perseverance... which leaves its own Stonehenge...to the rabbits, whilst it opens pyramids and uncovers Nineveh.
    Dem1 10.22 27 Lord Bacon uncovers the magic when he says, Manifest virtues procure reputation; occult ones, fortune.

uncreated, adj. (1)

    Nat 1.56 16 [Intellectual science] fastens the attention upon immortal necessary uncreated natures...

uncritical, adj. (1)

    ShP 4.197 1 [The poet in illiterate times] is...little solicitous whence his thoughts have been derived;...from whatever source, they are equally welcome to his uncritical audience.

unctuous, adj. (1)

    ET8 5.139 4 ...[the English] are of an unctuous texture.

uncultivated, adj. (1)

    Mrs1 3.126 24 Fine manners show themselves formidable to the uncultivated man.

uncultivated, n. (1)

    Art1 2.363 11 Art has not yet come to its maturity...if it do not make the poor and uncultivated feel that it addresses them with a voice of lofty cheer.

uncultured, adj. (1)

    ET4 5.63 4 The English uncultured are a brutal nation.

uncultured, n. (1)

    Art2 7.45 5 A very coarse imitation of the human form on canvas, or in wax-work;...these things give...to the uncultured...almost as much pleasure as a statue of Canova or a picture of Titian.

undated, adj. (1)

    FRep 11.525 14 In each new threat of faction the ballot has been, beyond expectation, right and decisive. It is ever an inspiration...a sudden, undated perception of eternal right coming into and correcting things that were wrong;...

undaunted, adj. (2)

    Hsm1. 2.252 6 ...[heroism] is of an undaunted boldness...
    Aris 10.33 10 The terrible aristocracy that is in Nature. Real people dwelling with the real, face to face, undaunted: then, far down, people of taste, people dwelling in a relation...and, far below these, gross and thoughtless, the animal man...

undauntedness, n. (1)

    Milt1 12.257 13 Wood, [Milton's] political opponent, relates that his deportment was affable, his gait erect and manly, bespeaking courage and undauntedness.

undeceive, v. (1)

    EzRy 10.389 26 ...[Ezra Ripley] repeated to me at table some of the particulars of that gentleman's [Jack Downing's] intimacy with General Jackson, in a manner which betrayed to me at once that he took the whole for fact. To undeceive him, I hastened to recall some particulars to show the absurdity of the thing...

undeceiving, adj. (1)

    F 6.1 4 Birds with auguries on their wings/ Chanted undeceiving things,/ [The bard] to beckon, him to warn;/...

undeceiving, v. (2)

    Wth 6.121 14 Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing, and she has somewhere told it plainly, if we will keep our eyes and ears open. If not, she will not be slow in undeceiving us when we prefer our own way to hers.
    Ctr 6.144 27 Balls, riding, wine-parties and billiards pass to a poor boy for something fine and romantic, which they are not; and a free admission to them on an equal footing...would be worth ten times its cost, by undeceiving him.

undecked, adj. (1)

    SR 2.86 21 Columbus found the New World in an undecked boat.

undefiled, adj. (1)

    SA 8.93 22 Coleridge esteems cultivated women as the depositaries and guardians of English undefiled;...

undefinable, adj. (1)

    OS 2.271 20 [This pure nature] is undefinable, unmeasurable;...

undemonstrable, adj. (1)

    Chr1 3.90 1 [Character] is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force...

undemonstrated, adj. (1)

    Chr1 3.102 4 Had there been something latent in the man, a terrible undemonstrated genius agitating and embarrassing his demeanor, we had watched for its advent.

undemonstrative, adj. (1)

    Supl 10.173 16 The expressors are the gods of the world, but the men whom these expressors revere are the solid, balanced, undemonstrative citizens...

undeniable, adj. (1)

    Let 12.399 16 ...we should not know where to find in literature any record of...such undeniable apprehension without talent...as our young men pretend to.

undeniably, adv. (2)

    PI 8.69 12 The book [Goethe's Faust] is undeniably written by a master...
    EWI 11.104 3 ...if we saw the whip applied to old men, to tender women; and, undeniably, though I shrink to say so, pregnant women set in the treadmill for refusing to work;...we too should wince.

under-estimate, n. (1)

    SL 2.165 4 ...this under-estimate of our own [possibilities], comes from a neglect of the fact of an identical nature.

underestimated, v. (2)

    CbW 6.249 26 In old Egypt it was established law that the vote of a prophet be reckoned equal to a hundred hands. I think it was much underestimated.
    EPro 11.317 14 ...great as the popularity of the President [Lincoln] has been, we are beginning to think that we have underestimated the capacity and virtue which the Divine Providence has made an instrument of benefit so vast.

under-fine, adj. (1)

    Pow 6.60 4 The second man is as good as the first,--perhaps better; but has not stoutness or stomach, as the first has, and so his wit seems over-fine or under-fine.

undergo, v. (3)

    Nat 1.53 25 This transfiguration which all material objects undergo through the passion of the poet...might be illustrated by a thousand examples from [Shakspeare's] Plays.
    Suc 7.289 24 ...[egotists] have a long education to undergo to reach simplicity and plain-dealing...
    CL 12.140 20 So exquisite is the structure of the cortical glands, said the old physiologist Malpighi, that when the atmosphere is ever so slightly vitiated or altered, the brain is the first part...to undergo a change of state.

undergoes, v. (2)

    SR 2.84 13 [Society] undergoes continual changes;...
    Farm 7.145 12 [The plants] burn, that is, exhale and decompose their own bodies into the air and earth again. The animal burns, or undergoes the like perpetual consumption.

undergone, v. (2)

    SL 2.158 4 In every troop of boys...a new-comer is as well and accurately weighed in the course of a few days and stamped with his right number, as if he had undergone a formal trial of his strength, speed and temper.
    Milt1 12.248 13 The reputation of Milton had already undergone one or two revolutions long anterior to its recent aspects.

undergraduate, n. (2)

    ET12 5.205 15 ...the known sympathy of entire Britain in what is done there [at the universities], justify a dedication to study in the undergraduate such as cannot easily be in America...
    LLNE 10.330 24 The novelty of the learning lost nothing in the skill and genius of [Everett's] relation, and the rudest undergraduate found a new morning opened to him in the lecture-room of Harvard Hall.

undergraduates, n. (1)

    ET12 5.206 13 As the number of undergraduates at Oxford is only about 1200 or 1300...the chance of a fellowship is very great.

underground, adv. (4)

    DSA 1.123 16 ...the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.
    Suc 7.309 4 Nature lays the ground-plan of each creature accurately...then veils it scrupulously. See how carefully she covers up the skeleton. ... She... forces death down underground, and makes haste to cover it up with leaves and vines...
    Edc1 10.126 7 All the fairy tales of Aladdin...or the enchanted halls underground or in the sea, are only fictions to indicate the one miracle of intellectual enlargement.
    Plu 10.303 11 ...it is in reading the fragments [Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another example of...the benign Providence which uses the violence of war, of earthquakes and changed water-courses, to save underground through barbarous ages the relics of ancient art...

Underhill, John, n. (1)

    HDC 11.54 20 Captain Underhill, in 1638, declared, that the new plantations of Dedham and Concord do afford large accommodations...

underlay, v. (1)

    SR 2.69 11 This which I think and feel underlay every former state of life and circumstances...

underlie, v. (2)

    SR 2.69 13 This which I think and feel underlay every former state of life and circumstances, as it does underlie my present...
    Fdsp 2.196 15 In strict science all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness.

underlies, v. (3)

    Comp 2.98 6 The same dualism underlies the nature and condition of man.
    Comp 2.126 13 ...the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts.
    Art2 7.55 23 This strict dependence of Art upon material and ideal Nature, this adamantine necessity which underlies it, has made all its past and may foreshow its future history.

underling, n. (2)

    Mrs1 3.132 23 ...any deference to some eminent man or woman of the world, forfeits all privilege of nobility. He is an underling: I have nothing to do with him;...
    FRO2 11.487 20 All education is to accustom [man] to trust himself...until he ceases to be an underling...

underlings, n. (4)

    UGM 4.27 5 [The great man's] attractions warp us from our place. We have become underlings and intellectual suicides.
    NMW 4.243 14 ...[Napoleon] undoubtedly felt...an impatience of fools and underlings.
    Chr2 10.102 11 See how one noble person dwarfs a whole nation of underlings.
    EWI 11.138 24 The secret cannot be kept, that the seats of power are filled by underlings...

undermine, v. (3)

    ET4 5.49 16 These limitations of the formidable doctrine of race suggest others which threaten to undermine it...
    ET7 5.126 5 Defoe, who knew his countrymen well, says of them,--In close intrigue, their faculty's but weak,/ For generally whate'er they know, they speak,/ And often their own counsels undermine/ By mere infirmity without design;/...
    Carl 10.490 3 [Carlyle] talks like a very unhappy man...meditating how to undermine and explode the whole world of nonsense which torments him.

undermined, v. (2)

    ET13 5.228 12 The English Church, undermined by German criticism, had nothing left but tradition;...
    Ill 6.323 4 I prefer...to be what cannot be skipped, or dissipated, or undermined, to all the eclat in the universe.

undermining, adj. (1)

    SL 2.129 6 The living Heaven thy prayers respect,/ House at once and architect,/ .../ Fears not undermining days/...

undermining, v. (1)

    MMEm 10.407 3 I was disappointed, [Mary Moody Emerson] writes, in finding my little Calvinist...a cold little thing who...is looked up to as a specimen of genius. I performed a mission in secretly undermining his vanity...

undermost, adj. (2)

    Nat 1.44 16 So intimate is this Unity, that...it lies under the undermost garment of Nature...
    Fdsp 2.202 18 [Before a friend] I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought...

underneath, adv. (4)

    DL 7.124 25 I have seen finely endowed men at college festivals... returning, as it seemed, the same boys who went away. The...manhood and offices they brought thither at this return seemed mere ornamental masks; underneath they were boys yet.
    Res 8.145 12 The boat is full of water, and resists all your strength to drag it ashore and empty it. The fisherman looks about him, puts a round stick of wood underneath, and it rolls as on wheels at once.
    Schr 10.284 26 These questions [of life] speak to Genius, to that power which is underneath and greater than all talent...
    FSLC 11.200 11 ...the Nemesis works underneath again.

underplaced, v. (1)

    Aris 10.47 18 I do not pity the misery of a man underplaced: that will right itself presently...

underrate, v. (2)

    AmS 1.92 17 I would not be hurried...by any exaggeration of instincts, to underrate the Book.
    SovE 10.203 14 Far be it from me to underrate the men or the churches that have fixed the hearts of men...

underrating, v. (1)

    SovE 10.184 6 In ignorant ages it was common to vaunt the human superiority by underrating the instinct of other animals;...

underscore, v. (1)

    ET12 5.204 5 [The Bodleian Library's] catalogue is the standard catalogue on the desk of every library in Oxford. In each several college they underscore in red ink on this catalogue the titles of books contained in the library of that college...

underscored, v. (1)

    Supl 10.169 3 'T is a good rule of rhetoric which Schlegel gives,-In good prose, every word is underscored;...

underselling, v. (1)

    ET10 5.168 8 It is not, I suppose, want of probity, so much as the tyranny of trade, which necessitates a perpetual competition of underselling...

undershirt, n. (1)

    ET11 5.179 6 The names [of English towns and districts] are excellent,--an atmosphere of legendary melody spread over the land. Older than all epics and histories which clothe a nation, this undershirt sits close to the body.

undersized, adj. (1)

    ET4 5.65 7 Other countrymen look slight and undersized beside [the English]...

understand, v. (96)

    Nat 1.35 15 ...the love of truth and of virtue, will purge the eyes to understand [Nature's] text.
    Nat 1.65 10 We do not understand the notes of birds.
    MN 1.213 22 It is not proper, said Zoroaster, to understand the Intelligible with vehemence...
    MN 1.213 26 You will not understand [the Intelligible] as when understanding some particular thing...
    MN 1.214 2 Things divine are not attainable by mortals who understand sensual things...
    MR 1.254 4 Let us understand that the equitable rule is, that no one should take more than his share...
    LT 1.260 5 [The Times] is very good matter to be handled, if we are skilful; an abundance of important practical questions which it behooves us to understand.
    Con 1.307 11 [The youth says] I cannot understand, or so much as spare time to read that needless library of your laws.
    Con 1.322 25 I understand well the respect of mankind for war...
    Tran 1.344 10 If you do not need to hear my thought, because you can read it in my face and behavior, then I will tell it you from sunrise to sunset. If you cannot divine it, you would not understand what I say.
    YA 1.384 24 These rising grounds which command the champaign below, seem to ask for lords, true lords, land-lords, who understand the land and its uses and the applicabilities of men...
    Hist 2.3 8 What Plato has thought, he [that is once admitted to the right of reason] may think;...what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand.
    Hist 2.34 10 ...Plato said that poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
    SR 2.68 5 ...when [children] come into the point of view which those had who uttered these sayings, they understand them...
    SL 2.154 19 There are not in the world at any time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato...
    Lov1 2.172 15 Perhaps we never saw [the lovers] before and never shall meet them again. But we see them...betray a deep emotion, and we are no longer strangers. We understand them...
    Int 2.347 11 The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.
    Art1 2.357 16 When I have seen fine statues and afterwards enter a public assembly, I understand well what he meant who said, When I have been reading Homer, all men look like giants.
    Exp 3.73 6 I fully understand language, [Mencius] said, and nourish well my vast-flowing vigor.
    Chr1 3.91 7 ...in our political elections, where this element [character], if it appears at all, can only occur in its coarsest form, we sufficiently understand its incomparable rate.
    Mrs1 3.155 3 ...I shall hear without pain that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand.
    NR 3.248 19 Could [my good men] but once understand that I loved to know that they existed...yet...had no word or welcome for them when they came to see me...it would be a great satisfaction.
    NER 3.278 6 If...we start objections to your project, O friend of the slave... understand well that it is because we wish to drive you to drive us into your measures.
    PPh 4.63 16 I announce the good of being interpenetrated by the mind that made nature: this benefit, namely, that it can understand nature, which it made and maketh.
    SwM 4.93 18 Others may build cities; [the philosopher] is to understand them...
    SwM 4.102 1 ...[Swedenborg's] books on mines and metals are held in the highest esteem by those who understand these matters.
    SwM 4.121 20 ...we must be at the top of our condition to understand any thing rightly.
    ShP 4.217 22 Are the agents of nature, and the power to understand them, worth no more than a street serenade...
    ET4 5.72 27 ...[the English] boast that they understand horses better than any other people in the world...
    ET5 5.89 14 When Thor and his companions arrive at Utgard, he is told that nobody is permitted to remain here, unless he understand some art, and excel in it all other men.
    ET5 5.100 12 In Parliament, in pulpits, in theatres [in England], when the speakers rise to thought and passion, the language becomes idiomatic; the people in the street best understand the best words.
    ET7 5.116 12 The [English] government strictly performs its engagements. The subjects do not understand trifling on its part.
    ET8 5.138 25 To understand the power of performance that is in their finest wits...one should see how English day-laborers hold out.
    ET12 5.211 25 Charles I. said that he understood English law as well as a gentleman ought to understand it.
    ET14 5.249 18 It is the surest sign of national decay, when the Bramins can no longer read or understand the Braminical philosophy.
    ET19 5.312 10 ...I was given to understand in my childhood that the British island from which my forefathers came was no lotus-garden...
    F 6.46 10 ...our flesh hath no might/ To understand it aright/ For it is warned too derkely./
    Wth 6.97 6 Goethe said well, Nobody should be rich but those who understand it.
    Wth 6.101 3 Napoleon was fond of telling the story of the Marseilles banker who said to his visitor...Young man, you are too young to understand how masses are formed;...
    Ctr 6.140 11 There are people who can never understand a trope...
    Ctr 6.140 16 There are people who...remain literalists, after hearing the music and poetry and rhetoric and wit of seventy or eighty years. ... But even these can understand pitchforks and the cry of Fire!...
    Bhr 6.173 9 I have seen men who neigh like a horse when you...say something which they do not understand...
    Bhr 6.191 4 There is a whisper out of the ages to him who can understand it...
    Bhr 6.192 25 That is the charm in all good novels, as it is the charm in all good histories, that the heroes mutually understand, from the first...
    Bty 6.284 4 The motive of science was the extension of man...till his hands should touch the stars...his ears understand the language of beast and bird...
    Elo1 7.77 1 ...how is it on the Atlantic, in a storm,--do you understand how to infuse your reason into men disabled by terror, and to bring yourself off safe then?...
    DL 7.113 23 Give me the means, says the wife, and your house shall not... waste your time. On hearing this we understand how these Means have come to be so omnipotent on earth.
    DL 7.117 13 Let us understand...that a house should bear witness in all its economy that human culture is the end to which it is built and garnished.
    Farm 7.142 17 [The farmer's] machine is of colossal proportions;...and it takes him long to understand its parts and its working.
    WD 7.180 23 We must be at the top of our condition to understand anything rightly.
    Clbs 7.239 16 Hyde, Earl of Rochester, asked Lord-Keeper Guilford, Do you not think I could understand any business in England in a month?
    Clbs 7.239 18 Hyde, Earl of Rochester, asked Lord-Keeper Guilford, Do you not think I could understand any business in England in a month? Yes, my lord, replied the other, but I think you would understand it better in two months.
    Cour 7.271 18 If Governor Wise is a superior man, or inasmuch as he is a superior man, he distinguishes John Brown. As they confer, they understand each other swiftly;...
    Suc 7.291 3 There was a wise man...Michel Angelo, who writes thus of himself:...I began to understand...that to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value, is the best and safest course.
    PI 8.16 15 Mountains and oceans we think we understand;...
    PI 8.17 25 As soon as a man masters a principle and sees his facts in relation to it, fields, waters, skies, offer to clothe his thoughts in images. Then all men understand him;...
    PI 8.35 27 On the stage, the farce is commonly far better given than the tragedy, as the stock actors understand the farce...
    PI 8.36 1 On the stage, the farce is commonly far better given than the tragedy, as the stock actors understand the farce, and do not understand the tragedy.
    PI 8.37 11 ...we shall never understand political economy until Burns or Beranger or some poet shall teach it in songs...
    Elo2 8.111 7 ...all can see and understand the means by which a battle is gained...
    Res 8.139 9 Our Copernican globe is a great factory or shop of power, with its rotating constellations, times and tides. The machine is of colossal size;... and it takes long to understand its parts and its workings.
    Res 8.145 25 M. Tissenet had learned among the Indians to understand their language...
    Comc 8.167 8 I have been employed, [Camper] says, six months on the Cetacea; I understand the osteology of the head of all these monsters...
    QO 8.185 22 Madame de Stael's Architecture is frozen music is borrowed from Goethe's dumb music, which is Vitruvius's rule, that the architect must not only understand drawing, but music.
    PC 8.225 27 The sublime point of experience is the value of a sufficient man. Cube this value by the meeting of two such...who understand and support each other, and you have organized victory.
    PPo 8.240 1 He who would understand the influence of the Homeric ballads in the heroic ages should witness the effect which similar compositions have upon the wild nomads of the East.
    Insp 8.282 26 I understand The Harbingers to refer to the signs of age and decay which [Herbert] detects in himself...
    Imtl 8.341 2 It is my greatest desire, [Van Helmont] said, that it might be granted unto atheists to have tasted, at least but one only moment, what it is intellectually to understand;...
    Imtl 8.350 2 Yama said, For this question [of immortality], it was inquired of old, even by the gods; for it is not easy to understand it.
    Imtl 8.350 6 Nachiketas said, Even by the gods was it inquired [concerning immortality]. And as to what thou sayest, O Death, that it is not easy to understand it, there is no other speaker to be found like thee.
    Chr2 10.102 26 Such [self-reliant] souls...oftenest appear solitary...because those who can understand and uphold such appear rarely...
    Chr2 10.103 3 ...the memory and tradition of such a [steadfast] leader is preserved in some strange way by those who only half understand him...
    Edc1 10.136 14 ...the coming age and the departing age seldom understand each other.
    Supl 10.178 4 ...all nations in proportion to their civilization, understand the manufacture of iron.
    MoL 10.249 25 Nature says to the American: I understand mensuration and numbers; I compute...the balance of attraction and recoil. I have measured out to you by weight and tally the powers you need.
    Thor 10.476 19 [Thoreau's] riddles were worth the reading, and I confide that if at any time I do not understand the expression, it is yet just.
    LS 11.12 8 ...the Passover was local too, and does not concern us, and its bread and wine...do not help us to understand the redemption which they signified.
    LS 11.20 25 If I understand the distinction of Christianity, the reason why it is to be preferred over all other systems and is divine is this, that it is a moral system;...
    LS 11.21 12 ...it is not usage, it is not what I do not understand, that binds me to [Christianity]...
    HDC 11.51 27 The questions which the Indians put [to John Eliot] betray their reason and their ignorance. Can Jesus Christ understand prayers in the Indian language?
    FSLN 11.232 20 ...the world exists, as I understand it, to teach the science of liberty...
    FSLN 11.235 14 ...that I understand to be the end for which a soul exists in this world,-to be himself the counterbalance of all falsehood and all wrong.
    JBB 11.273 4 ...I am detaining the meeting on matters which others understand better.
    CPL 11.507 15 ...it is a disadvantage not to have read the book your mates have read...so that...you shall understand their allusions to it...
    FRep 11.536 24 Of no use are the men...who can never understand that to-day is a new day.
    PLT 12.20 21 ...mind, our mind, or mind like ours, reappears to us in our study of Nature, Nature being everywhere formed after a method which we can well understand...
    PLT 12.30 9 I acquiesce to be that I am, but I wish no one to be civil to me. Strong men understand this very well.
    Mem 12.101 20 Shall we not on higher stages of being remember and understand our early history better?
    Mem 12.105 15 We remember what we understand...
    Mem 12.105 16 ...we understand best what we like;...
    CL 12.141 5 The air, said Anaximenes, is the soul, and the essence of life. By breathing it, we become intelligent, and, because we breathe the same air, understand one another.
    CL 12.145 13 I am afraid you do not understand values.
    Bost 12.210 18 The [American] heroes only shared this power of a sentiment, which, if it now breathes into us, will make it easy to us to understand them, and we shall no longer flatter them.
    ACri 12.285 5 ...when I read of various extraordinary polyglots...who can understand fifty languages, I answer that I shall be glad and surprised to find that they know one.
    MLit 12.318 18 The music of Beethoven is said, by those who understand it, to labor with vaster conceptions and aspirations than music has attempted before.
    WSL 12.338 19 [Landor is] A sharp, dogmatic man...with a profound contempt for all that he does not understand;...

understanding, n. (127)

    Nat 1.17 17 ...broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the understanding;...
    Nat 1.30 12 In due time...words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections.
    Nat 1.36 10 Every property of matter is a school for the understanding...
    Nat 1.36 12 The understanding adds, divides, combines, measures...
    Nat 1.36 18 Nature is a discipline of the understanding in intellectual truths.
    Nat 1.38 2 ...[property] is the gymnastics of the understanding...
    Nat 1.38 7 The whole character and fortune of the individual are affected by the least inequalities in the culture of the understanding;...
    Nat 1.49 14 To the senses and the unrenewed understanding, belongs a sort of instinctive belief in the absolute existence of nature.
    Nat 1.54 18 Their understanding/ Begins to swell.../
    Nat 1.72 10 [Man] works on the world with his understanding alone.
    Nat 1.72 16 [Man's] relation to nature, his power over it, is through the understanding...
    Nat 1.73 1 ...there are not wanting...occasional examples of the action of man upon nature...with reason as well as understanding.
    Nat 1.74 14 ...there are patient naturalists, but they freeze their subject under the wintry light of the understanding.
    DSA 1.129 9 The understanding caught this high chant from the poet's lips...
    LE 1.165 24 The vision of genius comes by renouncing the too officious activity of the understanding...
    MN 1.201 1 The simultaneous life throughout the whole body...allows the understanding no place to work.
    Tran 1.338 19 Only in the instinct of the lower animals we find the suggestion of the methods of [the purely spiritual life], and something higher than our understanding.
    Tran 1.353 21 ...the two lives, of the understanding and of the soul, which we lead, really show very little relation to each other;...
    Hist 2.15 22 A particular picture or copy of verses, if it do not awaken the same train of images, will yet superinduce the same sentiment as some wild mountain walk, although the resemblance...is occult and out of the reach of the understanding.
    Hist 2.28 22 The cramping influence of a hard formalist on a young child... paralyzing the understanding...is a familiar fact...
    Comp 2.103 6 The retribution in the circumstance is seen by the understanding;...
    Comp 2.121 24 Inasmuch as [the criminal] carries the malignity and the lie with him he so far deceases from nature. In some manner there will be a demonstration of the wrong to the understanding also;...
    Comp 2.126 8 ...the compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also...
    Lov1 2.187 7 ...losing in violence what it gains in extent, [love] becomes a thorough good understanding.
    Prd1 2.229 10 The last Grand Duke of Weimar, a man of superior understanding, said,--I have sometimes remarked in the presence of great works of art...how much a certain property contributes to the effect which gives life to the figures, and to the life an irresistible truth.
    OS 2.273 18 ...always the soul's scale is one, the scale of the senses and the understanding is another.
    OS 2.279 27 ...It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to affirm whatever he pleases;...
    OS 2.282 23 [Revelations] do not answer the questions which the understanding asks.
    OS 2.283 3 In past oracles of the soul the understanding seeks to find answers to sensual questions...
    OS 2.286 2 Against their will [men] exhibit those decisive trifles by which character is read. But who judges? and what? Not our understanding.
    Cir 2.311 24 If [the speaker and the hearer] were at a perfect understanding in any part, no words would be necessary thereon.
    Exp 3.67 17 To-morrow again every thing looks real and angular...and experience is hands and feet to every enterprise;--and yet, he who should do his business on this understanding would be quickly bankrupt.
    Chr1 3.101 26 I knew an amiable and accomplished person who undertook a practical reform, yet I was never able to find in him the enterprise of love he took in hand. He adopted it by ear and by the understanding from the books he had been reading.
    Chr1 3.111 10 I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding which can subsist...between two virtuous men...
    Mrs1 3.137 25 Must we have a good understanding with one another's palates?...
    NER 3.280 26 When two persons sit and converse in a thoroughly good understanding, the remark is sure to be made, See how we have disputed about words!
    NER 3.281 5 Let a clear, apprehensive mind...converse with the most commanding poetic genius, I think it would appear...that a perfect understanding, a like receiving, a like perceiving, abolished differences;...
    PPh 4.52 23 European civility is...the sharpened understanding...
    PPh 4.53 9 The understanding was in its health and prime [in Greece].
    PPh 4.69 6 To these four sections [images, objects, opinions, truths], the four operations of the soul correspond,--conjecture, faith, understanding, reason.
    PNR 4.82 10 In ascribing to Plato the merit of announcing [the expansions of facts], we only say, Here was a more complete man, who could apply to nature the whole scale of the senses, the understanding and the reason.
    PNR 4.86 1 [Plato's] definition of ideas...forever discriminating them from the notions of the understanding, marks an era in the world.
    SwM 4.111 8 ...[Swedenborg] has at last found a pupil in Mr. Wilkinson...a philosophic critic, with a coequal vigor of understanding and imagination comparable only to Lord Bacon's...
    SwM 4.121 4 [Swedenborg] fastens each natural object to a theologic notion;--a horse signifies carnal understanding;...
    MoS 4.159 2 ...true fortitude of understanding consists in not letting what we know be embarrassed by what we do not know...
    ShP 4.202 24 Bacon, who took the inventory of the human understanding for his times, never mentioned [Shakespeare's] name.
    GoW 4.281 1 ...in all these countries [England, America and France], men of talent write from talent. It is enough if the understanding is occupied...
    GoW 4.281 5 The German intellect wants...the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure;...
    ET4 5.57 17 ...the solid material interest predominates [in the Norse Sagas], so dear to English understanding...
    ET5 5.99 5 One secret of [the Englishmen's] power is their mutual good understanding.
    ET13 5.221 19 The torpidity on the side of religion of the vigorous English understanding shows how much wit and folly can agree in one brain.
    ET13 5.228 10 England accepts this ornamented national church, and it... clouds the understanding of the receivers.
    ET14 5.243 17 Locke, to whom the meaning of ideas was unknown, became the type of philosophy [in England], and his understanding the measure, in all nations, of the English intellect.
    ET14 5.255 18 In the absence...of the pure love of knowledge and the surrender to nature, there is [in England]...the priapism of the senses and the understanding.
    ET15 5.268 27 ...[the London Times] is [the Englishmen's] understanding and day's ideal daguerreotyped.
    F 6.49 24 Let us build...to the Necessity which rudely or softly educates [man] to the perception...that Law rules throughout existence; a Law which...disdains words and passes understanding;...
    Pow 6.57 3 ...a broad, healthy, massive understanding seems to lie on the shore of unseen rivers...
    Ctr 6.149 7 In the country, in long time, for want of good conversation, one's understanding and invention contract a moss on them...
    Ctr 6.157 6 The more I know you [wrote Neander to his sacred friends], the more I dissatisfy and must dissatisfy all my wonted companions. Their very presence stupefies me. The common understanding withdraws itself from the one centre of all existence.
    Bhr 6.192 18 The novels are as useful as Bibles if they teach you the secret that...the greatest success is...perfect understanding between sincere people.
    Bhr 6.192 20 'T is a French definition of friendship, rien que s'entendre, good understanding.
    Wsp 6.213 22 It is the order of the world to educate with accuracy the senses and the understanding;...
    Wsp 6.217 16 The heart has its arguments, with which the understanding is not acquainted.
    Wsp 6.224 8 A man cannot utter two or three sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought, namely, whether in the kingdom of the senses and the understanding, or in that of ideas and imagination...
    CbW 6.257 15 ...one would say that a good understanding would suffice as well as moral sensibility to keep one erect;...
    CbW 6.272 26 What questions we ask of [a friend]! what an understanding we have!...
    CbW 6.273 17 With the first class of men our friendship or good understanding goes quite behind all accidents of estrangement...
    Elo1 7.66 20 If the speaker utter a noble sentiment, the attention [of the audience] deepens, a new and highest audience now listens, and the audiences of the fun and of facts and of the understanding are all silenced and awed.
    Elo1 7.88 23 [Lord Mansfield's sentences] come from and they go to the sound human understanding;...
    DL 7.115 18 You are to bring with you that spirit which is understanding, health and self-help.
    Boks 7.199 6 [Plato] would suffice for the tuition of the race; to test their understanding, and to express their reason.
    Clbs 7.227 8 The understanding can no more empty itself by its own action than can a deal box.
    Clbs 7.249 2 I need only hint the value of the club for bringing masters in their several arts to compare and expand their views, to come to an understanding on these points...
    Suc 7.303 27 In [the lover's] surprise at the sudden and entire understanding that is between him and the beloved person, it occurs to him that they might somehow meet independently of time and place.
    SA 8.97 17 Here is...strong understanding...
    SA 8.100 6 [The consideration the rich possess] is the approval given by the human understanding to the act of creating value by knowledge and labor.
    Res 8.147 8 ...it is the principal thing you are to beg at the hands of Almighty God, to preserve your understanding entire;...
    Comc 8.159 26 ...the best of all jokes is the sympathetic contemplation of things by the understanding from the philosopher's point of view.
    Comc 8.161 8 Prince Hal stands by, as the acute understanding...
    QO 8.178 10 He that borrows the aid of an equal understanding, said Burke, doubles his own;...
    QO 8.202 26 Pindar uses this haughty defiance, as if it were impossible to find his sources: There are many swift darts within my quiver which have a voice for those with understanding;...
    PC 8.218 10 If a theologian of deep convictions and strong understanding carries his country with him, like Luther, the state becomes Lutheran, in spite of the Emperor;...
    PC 8.229 23 Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.
    Insp 8.277 19 Jacob Behmen said: Art has not wrote here, nor was there any time to consider how to set it punctually down according to the right understanding of the letters, but all was ordered according to the direction of the spirit...
    Imtl 8.340 21 Lord Bacon said: Some of the philosophers...came to this point, that whatsoever motions the spirit of man could act and perform without the organs of the body, might remain after death; which were only those of the understanding, and not of the affections;...
    Imtl 8.352 3 The soul cannot be gained by knowledge, not by understanding...
    Dem1 10.17 15 I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be grasped by a conception, much less by a word. It was...not human, since it had no understanding;...
    Dem1 10.23 5 ...the so-called fortunate man is one who, though not gifted... to act with grace or with understanding to great ends...relies on his instincts...
    Dem1 10.27 13 Willingly I too say, Hail! to the unknown awful powers which transcend the ken of the understanding.
    Aris 10.51 20 The day is darkened...when genius grows...reckless of its fine duties of being Saint, Prophet, Inspirer to its humble fellows, balks their respect and confounds their understanding by silly extravagances.
    PerF 10.78 11 It would be easy to awake wonder by sketching the performance of each of these mental forces; as...of the Imagination, which turns every dull fact into pictures and poetry, by making it an emblem of thought. What a power, when, combined with the analyzing understanding, it makes Eloquence;...
    Edc1 10.156 2 ...as [the naturalist] is still immovable, [the creatures of nature]...volunteer some degree of advances towards fellowship and good understanding with a biped who behaves so civilly and well.
    Supl 10.168 8 I judge by every man's truth of his degree of understanding, said Chesterfield.
    Supl 10.179 13 ...there is no question...that the warm sons of the Southeast have bent the neck under the yoke of the cold temperament and the exact understanding of the Northwestern races.
    Prch 10.221 3 ...this examination [of religion] resulting in the constant detection of errors, the flattered understanding assumes to judge all things...
    Prch 10.221 5 In the activity of the understanding, the sentiments sleep.
    Prch 10.221 6 The understanding presumes in things above its sphere...
    LLNE 10.336 24 ...the religious nature in man was not affected by these errors in his understanding.
    MMEm 10.415 26 This morning rich in existence; the remembrance...of bitterer days of youth and age, when my [Mary Moody Emerson's] senses and understanding seemed but means of labor...
    SlHr 10.439 10 [Samuel Hoar] was...a man...of a strong understanding...
    SlHr 10.445 14 ...the vigor of [Samuel Hoar's] understanding was directed on the ordinary domestic and municipal well-being.
    LS 11.3 6 In the history of the Church no subject has been more fruitful of controversy than the Lord's Supper. There never has been any unanimity in the understanding of its nature...
    LS 11.10 23 ...when the Jews on that occasion [at Capernaum] complained that they did not comprehend what [Jesus] meant, he added for their better understanding...that we might not think his body was to be actually eaten, that he only meant we should live by his commandment.
    LS 11.10 24 ...when the Jews on that occasion [at Capernaum] complained that they did not comprehend what [Jesus] meant, he added...as if for our understanding, that we might not think his body was to be actually eaten, that he only meant we should live by his commandment.
    HDC 11.82 24 Two religious societies, of differing creed, dwell together [in Concord] in good understanding...
    LVB 11.90 19 ...it is not to be doubted that it is the good pleasure and the understanding of all humane persons in the Republic...that [the Indians] shall be duly cared for;...
    War 11.162 11 You forget that the quiet...which lets the wagon go unguarded and the farmhouse unbolted, rests on the perfect understanding of all men that the musket, the halter and the jail stand behind there...
    FSLC 11.202 22 We delighted...in [Webster's] large understanding...
    FSLC 11.203 27 ...[Webster's] finely developed understanding only works truly and with all its force, when it stands for animal good; that is, for property.
    FSLN 11.223 19 ...it was the misfortune of his country that with this large understanding [Webster] had not what is better than intellect...
    FSLN 11.223 24 If [Webster's] moral sensibility had been proportioned to the force of his understanding, what limits could have been set to his genius and beneficent power?
    TPar 11.286 20 [Theodore Parker] had a strong understanding...
    Wom 11.406 10 Weirdes all, said the Edda, Frigga knoweth, though she telleth them never. That is to say, all wisdoms Woman knows; though she... does not explain them as discoveries, like the understanding of man.
    FRep 11.531 16 In this country, with our practical understanding, there is, at present, a great sensualism...
    II 12.67 12 To indicate a few examples of our recurrence to instinct instead of to the understanding: we can only judge safely of a discipline, of a book, of a man, or other influence, by the frame of mind it induces...
    Mem 12.99 27 An act of the understanding will marshal and concatenate a few facts;...
    CInt 12.121 6 The order of the world educates with care the senses and the understanding.
    CL 12.141 1 The power of the air was the first explanation offered by the early philosophers of the mutual understanding that men have.
    MAng1 12.217 17 [Beauty] does not lie within the limits of the understanding.
    MAng1 12.217 20 ...because the understanding in the presence of the beautiful, cannot ask, Why is it beautiful? for that reason it is so.
    MAng1 12.217 23 There is no standard whereby the understanding can determine whether objects are beautiful or otherwise.
    MAng1 12.218 5 This great Whole the understanding cannot embrace.
    MAng1 12.219 21 [Michelangelo] knew well that only by an understanding of the internal mechanism can the outside be faithfully delineated.
    MAng1 12.223 14 ...[Michelangelo's] love of beauty is made solid and perfect by his deep understanding of the mechanic arts.
    Milt1 12.274 26 ...Bacon's imagination was said to be the noblest that ever contented itself to minister to the understanding...
    WSL 12.340 17 ...when we remember [Landor's] rich and ample page, wherein we are always sure to find...a keen and precise understanding...we wish to thank a benefactor of the reading world.
    Pray 12.356 19 Neither was [the light of the soul] so above my understanding, as oil swims above water...

Understanding, n. (9)

    Nat 1.36 8 [Natural facts] educate both the Understanding and the Reason.
    DSA 1.129 9 There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.
    Con 1.295 23 Such an irreconcilable antagonism [as that between Conservatism and Innovation]...must have a correspondent depth of seat in the human constitution. It is the opposition...of the Understanding and the Reason.
    SL 2.156 16 Doth not Wisdom cry and Understanding put forth her voice?
    MoS 4.174 23 In the mount of vision, ere they have yet risen from their knees, [the saints] say...we must fly for relief...to the Understanding...
    Boks 7.212 8 A right metaphysics should do justice to the coordinate powers of Imagination, Insight, Understanding and Will.
    Prch 10.219 26 The Understanding will write out the vision in a Confession of Faith.
    CInt 12.122 27 The Understanding is the name we give to the low, limitary power working to short ends...
    MLit 12.322 16 [Goethe] has owed to Commerce and to the victories of the Understanding, all their spoils.

understanding, v. (8)

    MN 1.213 27 You will not understand [the Intelligible] as when understanding some particular thing...
    Hist 2.34 18 Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science. The shoes of swiftness...the power...of understanding the voices of birds, are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right direction.
    Pt1 3.11 17 Mankind in good earnest have availed so far in understanding themselves and their work, that the foremost watchman on the peak announces his news.
    SwM 4.125 5 [To Swedenborg] Man is man by virtue of willing, not by virtue of knowing and understanding.
    Chr2 10.98 25 We pretend not to define the way of [the moral sentiment's] access to the private heart. It passes understanding.
    Thor 10.457 8 ...a young girl, understanding that [Thoreau] was to lecture at the Lyceum, sharply asked him, Whether his lecture would be a nice, interesting story...
    SMC 11.370 17 ...Word was sent by General Barnes, that, when we retired, we should fall back under cover of the woods. This order was communicated to Colonel Prescott, whose regiment was then under the hottest fire. Understanding it to be a peremptory order to retire then, he replied , I don't want to retire;...
    FRep 11.527 4 ...here that same great body [of the people] has arrived at a sloven plenty...the man...understanding his own rights and stiff to maintain them...

understandings, n. (7)

    ET5 5.80 1 [The English people] would hardly greet the good that did not logically fall,--as if it...shook their understandings.
    Wsp 6.228 24 We need not much mind what people please to say, but what...their natures say, though their...understandings try to hold back and choke that word...
    Edc1 10.135 1 We exercise [boys'] understandings to the apprehension and comparison of some facts...
    SovE 10.207 1 We in America are charged...that...we...believe in our senses and understandings, while our imagination and our moral sentiment are desolated.
    LS 11.23 4 ...the Almighty God was pleased to qualify and send forth a man to teach men...that sacrifice was smoke, and forms were shadows. This man lived and died true to this purpose; and now...Christians must contend that it is...really a duty, to commemorate him by a certain form [the Lord's Supper], whether that form be agreeable to their understandings or not.
    LVB 11.93 6 ...a crime [the relocation of the Cherokees] is projected that confounds our understandings by its magnitude...
    EdAd 11.388 22 ...we have seen the best understandings of New England... say, We are too old to stand for what is called a New England sentiment any longer.

understanding's, n. (1)

    PPo 8.245 24 The understanding's copper coin/ Counts not with the gold of love./

understands, v. (15)

    Comp 2.117 10 ...no man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it...
    Fdsp 2.194 8 Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine...
    Mrs1 3.130 27 Fashion understands itself;...
    UGM 4.15 26 Shakspeare's principal merit may be conveyed in saying that he of all men best understands the English language...
    F 6.4 5 ...if there be irresistible dictation, this dictation understands itself.
    Cour 7.262 24 The child is as much in danger from...a cat, as the soldier from...an ambush. Each surmounts the fear as fast as he precisely understands the peril...
    Suc 7.285 25 There is a mode of reckoning, [Columbus] proudly adds, derived from astronomy, which is sure and safe to any one who understands it.
    PPo 8.252 24 Out of the East, and out of the West, no man understands me;/ O, the happier I, who confide to none but the wind!/
    Insp 8.272 14 Every youth should know the way to prophecy as surely as the miller understands how to let on the water...
    Aris 10.45 16 He who understands the art of war, reckons the hostile battalions and cities, opportunities and spoils.
    Edc1 10.158 1 ...if one [pupil] has brought in a Plutarch or Shakspeare or Don Quixote or Goldsmith or any other good book, and understands what he reads, put him at once at the head of the class.
    Plu 10.299 20 [Plutarch] is...sufficiently a mathematician to leave some of his readers...respectfully skipping to the next chapter. But this scholastic omniscience of our author engages a new respect, since they hope he understands his own diagram.
    Carl 10.490 6 [Carlyle]...understands his own value quite as well as Webster...
    PLT 12.32 15 White huckleberries are so rare that in miles of pasture you shall not find a dozen. But a girl who understands it will find you a pint in a quarter of an hour.
    II 12.89 7 ...the universe understands itself...

understatement, n. (3)

    PPh 4.60 4 What moderation and understatement and checking [Plato's] thunder in mid volley!
    Supl 10.169 12 I am daily struck with the forcible understatement of people who have no literary habit.
    Supl 10.176 2 The men whom [Nature] admits to her confidence...are uniformly marked...by understatement.

understates, v. (1)

    ET7 5.118 24 An Englishman understates...

understood, v. (31)

    Nat 1.27 26 ...neither can man be understood without these objects, nor these objects without man.
    SL 2.146 2 Nothing seems so easy as to speak and to be understood.
    SL 2.146 4 ...a man may come to find that the strongest of defences and of ties,--that he has been understood;...
    Cir 2.306 11 Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood;...
    NMW 4.233 2 ...Napoleon understood his business.
    GoW 4.281 22 If [the writer] can not rightly express himself to-day, the same things subsist and will open themselves to-morrow. There lies the burden on his mind,--the burden of truth to be declared,--more or less understood;...
    GoW 4.283 11 ...men distinguished for wit and learning, in England and France...are not understood to be very deeply engaged, from grounds of character, to the topic or the part they espouse...
    ET1 5.3 15 ...we could no longer speak aloud in the streets without being understood.
    ET1 5.22 2 ...[Wordsworth] had always wished Coleridge would write more to be understood.
    ET1 5.23 26 [Wordsworth] cited the sonnet, On the feelings of a highminded Spaniard, which he preferred to any other (I so understood him)...
    ET12 5.211 24 Charles I. said that he understood English law as well as a gentleman ought to understand it.
    ET13 5.225 26 Prophet and apostle can only be rightly understood by prophet and apostle.
    ET19 5.310 21 ...these things are not for me to say; these compliments, though true, would better come from one who felt and understood these merits more.
    Bhr 6.180 1 ...the ocular dialect...is understood all the world over.
    Ill 6.313 19 Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
    SS 7.10 20 The king lived and ate in his hall with men, and understood men, said Selden.
    Elo2 8.125 13 The power of [the men in the street's] speech is, that it is perfectly understood by all;...
    Elo2 8.126 4 Dr. Johnson said, There is in every nation...a certain mode of phraseology so consonant to the analogy and principles of its respective language as to remain settled and unaltered. This style is to be sought in the common intercourse of life among those who speak only to be understood...
    Elo2 8.130 16 It was said of Robespierre's audience, that though they understood not the words, they understood a fury in the words, and caught the contagion.
    Elo2 8.130 17 It was said of Robespierre's audience, that though they understood not the words, they understood a fury in the words, and caught the contagion.
    PC 8.221 9 [The scholar] has accosted this immeasurable Nature, and got clear answers. He understood what he read.
    Thor 10.465 4 [Thoreau] understood the matter in hand at a glance...
    LS 11.12 4 That rite [washing of the feet] is used...by the Sandemanians. It has been very properly dropped by other Christians. Why? For two reasons...(2) because it was typical, and all understood that humility is the thing signified.
    EWI 11.113 23 The apprenticeship system [in the West Indies] is understood to have proceeded from Lord Brougham...
    Wom 11.423 11 As for the unsexing and contamination [of women in politics],-that only...shows...that our policies are...made up of things...to be understood only by wink and nudge;...
    Milt1 12.266 6 Few men could be cited who have so well understood what is peculiar to the Christian ethics [as Milton]...
    Milt1 12.266 15 The indifferency of a wise mind to what is called high and low, and the fact that true greatness is a perfect humility, are revelations of Christianity which Milton well understood.
    Milt1 12.267 11 [Wrote Milton] Albeit I must confess to be half in doubt whether I should bring it forth or no, it being so contrary to the eye of the world, that I shall endanger either not to be regarded, or not to be understood. For who is there, almost, that measures wisdom by simplicity...
    ACri 12.284 11 This [national] style is probably to be sought...among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance.
    ACri 12.294 4 ...in the conduct of the play, and the speech of the heroes, [Shakespeare] keeps the level tone which is the tone of high and low alike, and most widely understood.
    Let 12.395 3 One of the [letter] writers relentingly says, What shall my uncles and aunts do without me? and desires distinctly to be understood not to propose the Indian mode of giving decrepit relatives as much of the mud of holy Ganges as they can swallow, and more...

under-surface, n. (1)

    Art2 7.41 10 Duhamel built a bridge by letting in a piece of stronger timber for the middle of the under-surface...

undertake, v. (8)

    Pol1 3.214 8 ...whenever I find my dominion over myself not sufficient for me, and undertake the direction of [my neighbor] also, I overstep the truth...
    Civ 7.29 19 ...if we will only choose our jobs in directions in which [the heavenly powers] travel, they will undertake them with the greatest pleasure.
    Boks 7.220 22 ...let each scholar associate himself to such persons as he can rely on, in a literary club, in which each shall undertake a single work or series for which he is qualified.
    Boks 7.221 1 ...how attractive is the whole literature of the Roman de la Rose, the Fabliaux, and the gaie science of the French Troubadours! Yet who in Boston has time for that? But one of our company shall undertake it...
    SlHr 10.442 22 ...[Samuel Hoar]...refused very large sums offered him to undertake the defence of criminal persons.
    EWI 11.99 16 I might well hesitate...to undertake to set this matter [emancipation] before you;...
    FSLN 11.221 1 There are those...who have power and inspiration only to do ill. Their talent or their faculty deserts them when they undertake anything right.
    Bost 12.203 15 ...there is always [in Boston]...always a heresiarch, whom the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new light... some John Adams and Josiah Quincy and Governor Andrew to undertake and carry the defence of patriots in the courts against the uproar of all the province;...

undertaken, v. (6)

    YA 1.380 20 Witness too the spectacle of three Communities which have within a very short time sprung up within this Commonwealth, besides several others undertaken by citizens of Massachusetts within the territory of other States.
    NMW 4.247 21 ...it is the belief of men to-day that nothing new can be undertaken in politics...
    ET5 5.92 5 Faithful performance of what is undertaken to be performed, [the English] honor in themselves, and exact in others...
    PPo 8.238 12 A war is undertaken [in the East] for an epigram or a distich...
    Insp 8.274 13 What metaphysician has undertaken to enumerate the tonics of the torpid mind...
    MAng1 12.236 2 ...as [the building of St. Peter's] was undertaken, so it was performed.

undertaker, n. (2)

    Imtl 8.325 4 ...the polity of the Egyptians...respected burial. It made every man an undertaker...
    Dem1 10.21 17 Shun [animal magnetism, divination, second-sight] as you would the secrets of the undertaker and the butcher.

undertakes, v. (3)

    OS 2.283 4 In past oracles of the soul the understanding...undertakes to tell from God how long men shall exist...
    Comc 8.158 7 An oak or a chestnut undertakes no function it cannot execute;...
    Milt1 12.265 21 [Milton]...deliberately undertakes the defence of the English people, when advised by his physicians that he does it at the cost of sight.

undertaking, n. (1)

    Milt1 12.274 1 Was there not a fitness in the undertaking of such a person [as Milton] to write a poem on the subject of Adam...

undertaking, v. (2)

    Pol1 3.214 15 This undertaking for another is the blunder which stands in colossal ugliness in the governments of the world.
    SovE 10.197 2 ...I have never until now dreamed that this undertaking the entire management of my own affairs was not commendable.

undertand, v. (1)

    PPh 4.46 11 The same weakness and want, on a higher plane, occurs daily in the education of ardent young men and women. ah! you don't undertand me;...

undertones, n. (2)

    ACri 12.297 17 ...[Carlyle] talks flexibly...in loud emphasis, in undertones...
    ACri 12.299 3 ...[in Carlyle's History of Frederick II] we see the eyes of the writer looking into ours, whilst he is humming and chuckling, with undertones, and trumpet-tones...

undertook, v. (9)

    Chr1 3.101 22 I knew an amiable and accomplished person who undertook a practical reform...
    ET10 5.159 7 Iron and steel are very obedient. Whether it were not possible to make a spinner that would not rebel...nor emigrate? At the solicitation of the masters...Mr. Roberts of Manchester undertook to create this peaceful fellow...
    Bhr 6.174 2 Charles Dickens self-sacrificingly undertook the reformation of our American manners in unspeakable particulars.
    Wsp 6.228 4 [St. Philip Neri] undertook to visit the nun and ascertain her character.
    PerF 10.79 13 [The manufacturer] undertook the charge of [the chemical works] himself, began at the beginning...
    LLNE 10.340 17 [Channing] had earlier talked with Dr. John Collins Warren on the like purpose [of bringing thoughtful people together], who admitted the wisdom of the design and undertook to aid him in making the experiment.
    TPar 11.284 2 Here comes Parker, the Orson of parsons, a man/ Whom the Church undertook to put under her ban.-/
    MAng1 12.235 4 Not until he was in the seventy-third year of his age, [Michelangelo] undertook the building of Saint Peter's.
    MAng1 12.235 17 [Michelangelo] required that he should be permitted to accept this work [building St. Peter's] without any fee or reward, because he undertook it as a religious act;...

undervalue, v. (4)

    NER 3.276 13 ...if the secret oracles whose whisper makes the sweetness and dignity of [a man's] life do here withdraw and accompany him no longer,--it is time to undervalue what he has valued...
    MoS 4.150 26 The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest in angles and colors, but beholds the design?--he will presently undervalue the actual object.
    Ctr 6.141 25 The best heads that ever existed...were...quite too wise to undervalue letters.
    DL 7.130 25 I do not undervalue the fine instruction which statues and pictures give.

undervalued, v. (2)

    ET1 5.8 16 [Landor]...undervalued Burke, and undervalued Socrates;...
    ET1 5.9 27 Landor is strangely undervalued in England;...

undervalues, v. (1)

    GoW 4.282 24 That a man has spent years on Plato and Proclus, does not afford a presumption that he...undervalues the fashions of his town.

undervaluing, v. (1)

    Prch 10.227 13 Be not betrayed into undervaluing the churches which annoy you by their bigoted claims.

Underwood, Mr., n. (1)

    AKan 11.260 18 ...can any citizen of the Southern country who happens to think kidnapping a bad thing, say so? Let Mr. Underwood of Virginia answer.

underwriters, n. (1)

    EWI 11.140 17 In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781, whose master had thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into the sea, to cheat the underwriters, the first jury gave a verdict in favor of the master and owners...

undescribable, adj. (4)

    Nat2 3.179 15 ...let us not longer omit our homage to the Efficient Nature... itself secret, its works driven before it...in undescribable variety.
    GoW 4.262 26 [The writer] counts it all nonsense that they say, that some things are undescribable.
    Bhr 6.197 26 ...we are continually surprised [in the young girl] with graces and felicities not only unteachable but undescribable.
    Wsp 6.213 12 There is...a simple, quiet, undescribed, undescribable presence, dwelling very peacefully in us...

undescribed, adj. (2)

    LE 1.168 3 But go into the forest, you shall find all new and undescribed.
    Wsp 6.213 12 There is...a simple, quiet, undescribed, undescribable presence, dwelling very peacefully in us...

undesirable, adj. (2)

    Wth 6.97 4 Whilst it is each man's interest that...wealth or surplus product should exist somewhere, it need not be in his hands. Often it is very undesirable to him.
    JBB 11.269 23 ...if [John Brown] must suffer, he must drag official gentlemen into an immortality most undesirable...

undevout, adj. (1)

    Pray 12.351 25 ...what led us to these remembrances [of prayers] was the happy accident which in this undevout age lately brought us acquainted with two or three diaries...

undiminishable, adj. (1)

    Chr1 3.90 9 ...character is of a stellar and undiminishable greatness.

undiminished, adj. (1)

    Farm 7.143 25 The eternal rocks...have held their oxygen or lime undiminished...

undisciplined, adj. (1)

    Ill 6.322 8 ...it is the undisciplined will that is whipped with bad thoughts and bad fortunes.

undiscovered, adj. (1)

    Nat 1.70 7 A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought...

undiscriminating, adj. (1)

    ET1 5.8 6 I could not make [Landor] praise Mackintosh, nor my more recent friends; Montaigne very cordially,--and Charron also, which seemed undiscriminating.

undisturbed, adj. (1)

    Aris 10.61 9 The honor of a member consists in...in the pursuing undisturbed the career of a Brother...

undivided, adj. (3)

    SR 2.84 23 What a contrast between the...American...and the naked New Zealander, whose property is...an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep under!
    F 6.5 13 The Turk...rushes on the enemy's sabre with undivided will.
    LS 11.17 11 It is the old objection to the doctrine of the Trinity...that such confusion was introduced into the soul that an undivided worship was given nowhere.

undo, v. (6)

    Con 1.296 19 ...if I put forth my hands, I shall not do, but undo.
    SS 7.10 19 ...coop up most men and you undo them.
    QO 8.182 16 ...whatever undue reverence may have been claimed for [the Bible] by the prestige of philonic inspiration, the stronger tendency we are describing is likely to undo.
    Prch 10.228 18 Of course a hero so attractive to the hearts of millions [as Jesus] drew the hypocrite and the ambitious into his train, and they used his name to falsify his history and undo his work.
    EPro 11.318 21 The virtues of a good magistrate undo a world of mischief...
    MAng1 12.234 20 As [Michelangelo] refused to undo his work [The Last Judgment], Daniel di Volterra was employed to clothe the figures;...

undoes, v. (1)

    CL 12.156 3 ...a view from a cliff over a wide country undoes a good deal of prose...

undoing, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.200 13 ...the Nemesis works underneath again. It is a power that... draws us on to our undoing;...

undoing, v. (1)

    PI 8.66 20 I count the genius of Swedenborg and Wordsworth as the agents of a reform in philosophy, the bringing poetry back...to the marrying of Nature and mind, undoing the old divorce in which poetry had been famished and false...

undoings, n. (1)

    JBS 11.276 20 But though they slew him with the sword,/ And in the fire his touchstone burned,/ Its doings could not be o'erturned,/ Its undoings restored./

undomesticated, adj. (1)

    PLT 12.17 20 Above the thought is the higher truth,-truth as yet undomesticated...

undone, adj. (1)

    PI 8.1 18 ...[The people of the sky] Teach him gladly to postpone/ Pleasures to another stage/ Beyond the scope of human age,/ Freely as task at eve undone/ Waits unblamed to-morrow's sun.

undone, v. (2)

    Wth 6.96 5 ...if men should...leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.
    EPro 11.319 21 Done, [The Emancipation Proclamation] cannot be undone by a new administration.

undoubted, adj. (3)

    LS 11.16 18 But it is said: Admit that the rite [the Lord's Supper] was not designed to be perpetual. What harm doth it? Here it stands...the undoubted occasion of much good;...
    CInt 12.115 6 ...either science and literature is a hypocrisy, or it is not. If it be, then...turn your college into barracks and warehouses, and divert the funds of your founders into the stock of...a tan-yard or some other undoubted conveniency for the surrounding population.
    MAng1 12.226 18 Versatility of talent in men of undoubted ability always awakens the liveliest interest;...

undoubtedly, adv. (14)

    Nat 1.3 20 Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable.
    AmS 1.91 9 Undoubtedly there is a right way of reading...
    LE 1.169 25 Undoubtedly the changes of geology have a relation to the prosperous sprouting of the corn and peas in my kitchen garden;...
    MN 1.198 24 Empedocles undoubtedly spoke a truth of thought, when he said, I am God;...
    YA 1.383 8 Undoubtedly, abundant mistakes will be made by these first adventurers [the Communities]...
    Hist 2.19 3 ...[the cloud] was undoubtedly the archetype of that familiar ornament [the cherub].
    Prd1 2.240 14 Undoubtedly we can easily pick faults in our company...
    NR 3.238 8 Great dangers undoubtedly accrue from this incarnation and distribution of the godhead...
    NMW 4.243 11 ...[Napoleon] undoubtedly felt a desire for men and compeers...
    Cour 7.266 21 Undoubtedly there is a temperamental courage...
    HDC 11.33 24 Johnson, relating undoubtedly what he had himself heard from the pilgrims, intimates that they consumed many days in exploring the country, to select the best place for the town.
    HDC 11.61 12 A great defence [of Concord] undoubtedly was the village of Praying Indians...
    War 11.175 15 The proposition of the Congress of Nations is undoubtedly that at which the present fabric of our society and the present course of events do point.
    Milt1 12.253 23 As a poet, Shakspeare undoubtedly transcends, and far surpasses [Milton] in his popularity with foreign nations;...

undoubtingly, adv. (2)

    YA 1.382 3 Here are Etzlers and mechanical projectors, who...undoubtingly affirm that the smallest union would make every man rich;...
    Aris 10.55 7 He is beautiful in face, in port, in manners, who is absorbed in objects which he truly believes to be superior to himself. Is there...any cosmetic or any blood that can obtain homage like that security of air presupposing so undoubtingly the sympathy of men in his designs?

undreamed-of, adj. (1)

    Mem 12.109 17 If we occupy ourselves long on this wonderful faculty [memory], and see...the way in which new knowledge calls upon old knowledge-new giving undreamed-of value to old;...we cannot fail to draw thence a sublime hint that thus there must be an endless increase in the power of memory only through its use;...

undress, n. (2)

    Nat2 3.176 20 Nature cannot be surprised in undress.
    MoS 4.167 11 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] I...think an undress and old shoes that do not pinch my feet...the most suitable.

undress, v. (1)

    MAng1 12.228 11 ...[Michelangelo] told Vasari that he often slept in his clothes [while painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling], both because he was too weary to undress, and because he would rise in the night and go immediately to work.

undressing, v. (1)

    PI 8.5 16 I believe this conviction makes the charm of chemistry,--that we have the same avoirdupois matter in an alembic, without a vestige of the old form; and in animal transformation not less, as...in embryo and man; everything undressing and stealing away from its old into new form...

undue, adj. (1)

    QO 8.182 14 ...whatever undue reverence may have been claimed for [the Bible] by the prestige of philonic inspiration, the stronger tendency we are describing is likely to undo.

undulate, v. (2)

    MoS 4.183 16 A man of thought must feel the thought that is parent of the universe; that the masses of nature do undulate and flow.
    PI 8.21 3 The poet contemplates the central identity, sees it undulate and roll this way and that...

undulates, v. (1)

    AmS 1.111 26 ...let me see...the shop, the plough, and the ledger referred to the like cause by which light undulates...

undulating, adj. (3)

    SHC 11.431 2 A simultaneous movement has, in a hundred cities and towns in this country, selected some convenient piece of undulating ground with pleasant woods and waters;...and we lay the corpse in these leafy colonnades.
    CL 12.144 11 In Massachusetts, our land...is...not like some towns in the more broken country of New Hampshire, built on three or four hills...so that if you go a mile, you have only the choice whether you will climb the hill on your way out or on your way back. The more reason we have to be content with the felicity of our slopes in Massachusetts, undulating, rocky, broken and surprising...
    Bost 12.191 18 ...the next colony planted itself at Salem, and the next at Weymouth; another at Medford; before these men...wisely judged that the best point for a city was at the bottom of a deep and islanded bay...where a bold shore was bounded by a country of rich undulating woodland.

undulation, n. (3)

    Int 2.332 10 It seems as if the law of the intellect resembled that law of nature...by which the heart now draws in, then hurls out the blood,--the law of undulation.
    PC 8.222 27 Every law in Nature, as...undulation, has a counterpart in the intellect.
    PPo 8.238 6 [Life in the East's] elements are few and simple, not exhibiting the long range and undulation of European existence...

Undulation, n. (1)

    AmS 1.98 18 That great principle of Undulation in nature...is known to us under the name of Polarity...

undulations, n. (3)

    Comp 2.96 23 Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature;...in the undulations of fluids and of sound;...
    CInt 12.129 10 Do not the electricities and the imponderable influences play with all their magic undulations?
    Milt1 12.261 19 ...Milton was conscious of possessing this intellectual voice...propelling its melodious undulations forward through the coming world...

undulatory, adj. (1)

    Exp 3.68 10 ...the chemical and ethereal agents are undulatory and alternate;...

unduly, adv. (1)

    MoS 4.162 9 ...the personal regard which I entertain for Montaigne may be unduly great...

undying, adj. (1)

    FRep 11.525 22 ...the history of Nature from first to last is incessant advance...from rude to finer organization, the globe of matter thus conspiring with the principle of undying hope in man.

unearth, v. (1)

    WD 7.179 18 ...him I reckon the most learned scholar, not who can unearth for me the buried dynasties of Sesostris and Ptolemy...

uneasiness, n. (8)

    LT 1.285 15 ...truly we shall find much to console us, when we consider the cause of [the speculators'] uneasiness.
    SL 2.162 15 Nor can you, if I am true, excite me to the least uneasiness by saying, [Epaminondas] acted and thou sittest still.
    Fdsp 2.192 8 A commended stranger is expected and announced, and an uneasiness betwixt pleasure and pain invades all the hearts of a household.
    OS 2.267 15 What is the ground of this uneasiness of ours;...
    Nat2 3.194 23 The uneasiness which the thought of our helplessness in the chain of causes occasions us, results from looking too much at one condition of nature, namely, Motion.
    Wsp 6.204 10 The decline of the influence...of Wesley, or Channing, need give us no uneasiness.
    Wsp 6.228 18 Philip [Neri] ran out of doors, mounted his mule and returned instantly to the Pope; Give yourself no uneasiness, Holy Father, any longer...
    Elo1 7.75 15 ...one cannot wonder at the uneasiness sometimes manifested by trained statesmen...when they observe the disproportionate advantage suddenly given to oratory over the most solid and accumulated public service.

uneasy, adj. (10)

    LT 1.274 21 The more intelligent are growing uneasy on the subject of Marriage.
    Fdsp 2.192 21 Having imagined and invested [the commended stranger], we ask how we should stand related in conversation and action with such a man, and are uneasy with fear.
    Fdsp 2.198 23 ...these uneasy pleasures and fine pains [of friendship] are for curiosity...
    Prd1 2.238 9 You are solicitous of the good-will of the meanest person, uneasy at his ill-will.
    UGM 4.32 1 Each is uneasy until he has produced his private ray unto the concave sphere...
    GoW 4.288 20 We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live.
    Elo1 7.94 17 ...whilst [the preacher] speaks things, I feel that he is touching some of my relations, and I am uneasy;...
    HDC 11.55 23 ...the Concord people became uneasy, and looked around for new seats.
    HDC 11.67 9 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I...used the word Mediator in some differing light from that you have given it; but I confess I was soon uneasy that I had used the word...
    EWI 11.108 5 John Woolman of New Jersey...was uneasy in his mind when he was set to write a bill of sale of a negro, for his master.

unedited, adj. (1)

    SwM 4.110 27 ...it appears that a mass of manuscript [by Swedenborg] still unedited remains in the royal library at Stockholm.

uneducated, adj. (7)

    LE 1.182 13 The man of genius should occupy the whole space between God or pure mind and the multitude of uneducated men.
    DL 7.124 18 ...we soon catch the trick of each man's conversation, and knowing his two or three main facts, anticipate what he thinks of each new topic that rises. It is scarcely less perceivable in educated men, so called, than in the uneducated.
    Edc1 10.138 13 ...let us have men whose manhood is only the continuation of their boyhood, natural characters still;...and not that sad spectacle with which we are too familiar, educated eyes in uneducated bodies.
    MMEm 10.423 21 For the widows and orphans--Oh, I [Mary Moody Emerson] could give facts of the long-drawn years of imprisoned minds and hearts, which uneducated orphans endure!
    SlHr 10.439 24 ...it was perfectly easy for [Samuel Hoar] to associate... with plain, uneducated, poor men...
    Wom 11.422 23 ...if in your city the uneducated emigrant vote numbers thousands...it is to be corrected by an educated and religious vote...
    Trag 12.407 14 ...universally, in uneducated and unreflecting persons...we discover traits of the same superstition [belief in Fate]...

unembarrassed, adj. (1)

    GoW 4.271 12 Goethe was the philosopher of this [modern] multiplicity;... a manly mind, unembarrassed by the variety of coats of convention with which life had got encrusted...

unemployed, adj. (1)

    MoL 10.248 3 There is no unemployed force in Nature.

unencumbered, adj. (1)

    Insp 8.290 18 Certain localities, as...natural parks of oak and pine, where the ground is smooth and unencumbered, are excitants of the muse.

unenlightened, adj. (1)

    Wom 11.409 10 It was Burns's remark when he first came to Edinburgh that between the men of rustic life and the polite world he observed little difference; that in the former, though...unenlightened by science, he had found much observation and much intelligence;...

unentertaining, adj. (1)

    DSA 1.138 25 It seemed as if [the people's] houses were very unentertaining...

unequal, adj. (12)

    LT 1.285 12 [Speculators] have some piety which looks with faith to a fair Future, unprofaned by rash and unequal attempts to realize it.
    Tran 1.356 6 These persons [Transcendentalists] are of unequal strength, and do not all prosper.
    Fdsp 2.200 5 If I have shrunk unequal from one contest, the joy I find in all the rest becomes mean and cowardly.
    Fdsp 2.216 16 If [your companion] is unequal, he will presently pass away;...
    Pol1 3.202 1 Whilst the rights of all as persons are equal, in virtue of their access to reason, their rights in property are very unequal.
    Pol1 3.202 6 One man owns his clothes, and another owns a county. This accident...falls unequally, and its rights of course are unequal.
    PPh 4.68 19 After [Plato] has illustrated the relation between the absolute good and true and the forms of the intelligible world, he says: Let there be a line cut in two unequal parts.
    MoS 4.160 4 [The skeptic] is the considerer...believing...that we cannot give ourselves too many advantages in this unequal conflict, with powers so vast and unweariable ranged on one side, and this little, conceited vulnerable popinjay that a man is, bobbing up and down into every danger, on the other.
    ET14 5.250 10 ...where impatience of the tricks of men...builds altars to the negative Deity, the inevitable recoil is...the gallantry of the private heart, which decks its immolation with glory, in the unequal combat of will against fate.
    Insp 8.270 25 In the savage man, thought is infantile; and, in the civilized, unequal and ranging up and down a long scale.
    Grts 8.314 5 Scintillations of greatness appear here and there in men of unequal character...
    HDC 11.59 8 We know beforehand who must conquer in that unequal struggle [with the Indian].

unequally, adv. (5)

    MR 1.255 27 ...we have seen a few scattered up and down in time for the blessing of the world; men who have in the gravity of their nature a quality which answers to the fly-wheel in a mill, which...hinders [the motion] from falling unequally and suddenly in destructive shocks.
    Pol1 3.202 5 One man owns his clothes, and another owns a county. This accident...falls unequally, and its rights...are unequal.
    Bty 6.299 8 Portrait painters say that most faces and forms are irregular and unsymmetrical;...the hair unequally distributed, etc.
    Bty 6.299 11 The man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors...
    SlHr 10.440 19 ...[Samuel Hoar] said it was his practice to pay whatever was demanded; for, though he might think the taxation large and very unequally proportioned, yet he thought the money might as well go in this way as in any other.

unequivocal, adj. (1)

    Aris 10.52 13 ...if the dressed and perfumed gentleman, who serves the people in no wise...go about to set ill examples and corrupt them, who shall blame them if they...express their unequivocal indignation and contempt?

unerring, adj. (7)

    Pt1 3.11 22 ...the phrase will be the fittest, most musical, and the unerring voice of the world for that time.
    Mrs1 3.140 25 ...besides personal force and so much perception as constitutes unerring taste, society demands in its patrician class another element...which it significantly terms good-nature...
    Comc 8.158 14 [Animals'] activity is marked by unerring good sense.
    JBS 11.276 4 A man there came, whence none could tell,/ Bearing a touchstone in his hand,/ And tested all things in the land/ By its unerrring spell./
    ALin 11.333 26 ...the weight and penetration of many passages in [Lincoln' s] letters, messages and speeches...are destined hereafter to wide fame. What pregnant definitions; what unerring common sense;...
    ChiE 11.473 3 [Confucius's] rare perception appears in...his unerring insight...
    CInt 12.129 11 Do not gravity and polarity keep their unerring watch on a needle and thread...as on the moon's orbit?

unexamined, adj. (1)

    ET8 5.132 15 [Young Englishmen] stoutly carry into every nook and corner of the earth their turbulent sense; leaving no lie uncontradicted; no pretension unexamined.

unexceptionable, adj. (1)

    LS 11.20 14 The general object and effect of the ordinance [the Lord's Supper] is unexceptionable.

unexecuted, adj. (1)

    NMW 4.234 23 You are losing time, [Napoleon] cried; fire upon those masses; they must be engulfed: fire upon the ice! The order remained unexecuted for ten minutes.

unexhausted, adj. (4)

    Fdsp 2.189 7 ...The world uncertain comes and goes,/ The lover rooted stays./ I fancied he was fled,/ And, after many a year,/ Glowed unexhausted kindliness/ Like daily sunrise there./
    GoW 4.279 20 ...the book [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] remains ever so new and unexhausted, that we must even let it go its way...
    Elo1 7.99 16 In its right exercise, [eloquence] is an elastic, unexhausted power...
    ALin 11.328 7 ...For [Lincoln] [Nature's] Old-World moulds aside she threw,/ And, choosing sweet clay from the breast/ Of the unexhausted West,/ With stuff untainted shaped a hero new,/ Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true./

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