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Show faculties ; to be an-intelligent or confciou being 1 have given thee a wife and a#derffanding heart Chronicles All my foul b Imparadis'd in you, in whom alon DO,'H.'L‘ 2. To be informed by another 1 underflood of the evil Eliathib did. Neh. xiiis 7 1 underfland by Sanga, you have bee Solicited againft the commonwealt By one Umbrenus Ben Forf ;.to have learned I underftood not that a grateful min By owing owes not, but ftill pays, atonc Indebted and difcharg'd I underflocd not all was but a thew Rather than folid virtue UN~xDERSTA'NDING Milton wnder Srand. 1 Intelle@tua powers facultie o th mind, elpecially thofe of knowledge an judgment inftruéts me, an c Shakefpeare's Winter's Tale Make him of quick wnderffanding in the fear o the Lord Ifaiab When fhe rates things, and moves from groun to ground The name of reafon fhe obtains by this by reafon fhe the truth hath found And fandeth fix'd, the underffanding is Dawies Life and fenfe Fancy and underflanding : whence the fou Reafon receives, and reafon is her being Milton "We find wifdom withdrawing the will from th quarrels of the underflanding, and more efteemin of peace than of opinion Holyday By underfianding, 1 mean that faculty whereb we are enabled to apprehend the objeéts of know ledge ; generals as well as particulars ; abfent thing as well as prefent; and to judge of their truth o falfehood, good or evil Wilkins God is to the wnderflanding of man, as the ligh of the fun is to our eyes, its firft and moft glor u object Tillotfon The underflandings of a fenate are often enflave by three or four leaders O Tift 2. Skill, knowledge; exaét comprehenfion Right underflanding confifts in the perception o the vifible or probable agreement or difagreemen Locke of ideas Very mean people have raifed their minds to great fenfe and wnderflanding of religion Locke 3. Intelligence ; terms of communication He hoped th cur with him i flanding betwee We have go enemy, by mean loyalty of his fubjeéts would conthe preferving of a good wnderhim and his people Clarendon into"fome underflanding with th Arbuthnot of Don Diego UNDERSTA'NDING 2dj Knowing; fkil ful is a very underffandin Addifon on Italy UNDERSTA'NDINGLY adv. [from under With knowledge Sfand. Sunday be underflandingly fpent in theo ma logy Milton Uxpersto0o'p underftand pret. and Ipart. I paffive o [lH{fl/:.'i‘ and frap. UxDERST R_A'PPF. R. n A petty fellow; an inferiour agent Ever and expelted Savift regiment, or his fon muft be a major 7 Hence our gen'rous emulation cam undertook, and we perform'd the fame underffrapper perke DE AL UNDERTAKE w a up s or preterit took5 participle paflive undertaken derfangen, German. o under [un To Cato's daughter. Shakefp My ¢nief dflight lay in gfgfii'gfi"gfl: ep:flifl of my ftation; fo that, in comparifon of it, p ity I yp Rofe dervalued all enfigns of authority flrt;rba' 2. To deprefs; to make low in eftimg& tion ; to defpife I write not this with the leaft intentio to derv Fiercer than cannon, and than rocks more hard The Englith undertake th' unequal war Dryden Of dangers undertaken, fame achiev'd lye the other parts of poetry. Dy de; In a kingdom grown glorious by, the rcpuétior Dryden of a fovereign, multitudes leffen and undervaly it And in my boufe you thall be friendly lodg'd. Shak Schooling Luther, an undervaluing termj,flifi{i;' make one think that Erafmus had a mean opinio Atterbury of him They talk by turns 2. To aflume a charaéter Not in ufe His name and credit fhall you undertake It is not-fit your lordfhip thould wndertake ever Shak. Cyn:b companion that you give offence to Shakefpeare You 'll undertake her no more UNDERVA'LUE. 7 [ [from the verb. Low rate ; vile price Th To th' waterfide I muft conduét your grace Then give my charge up to Sir Nicholas Vaux Who undertakes you to yourend, Shak. Hen. VIII 79 UNDERTA'KE. . 7 1. To aflume any bufinefs or province Ifaiahy xxXViiis 3 Milten I undertook alone to wing th' abyfG It is the'cowifh terror of his fpirit That dare not undertake. ~ Shakefpeare's King Lear 3. To promife condition to ftand bound to fom UNDERVA'LUER Wosdward's Natural Hifbory UxDERTAKEN. part. paflive of undertake UNDERTA'KER. 7. /i [from andertake. 1. One who engages in projeéts and affairs ton T throw me in but twenty acres Prior 2. One who engages to build for anothe at a certain price Should they build as faft as write *Twould ruin undertakers quite. Swwift's Mifcell Whe Thofe that are proper for war, fill up the laborious part of life, and carry on the underwork o the nation Addifon tions anorked, or underaurought ; participle paffive underavorked, or underavrought 1. To deftroy by clandeftine meafures Thou from loving England art fo far That thou haft underwwrought its lawful king To cut off the fequence of pofterity, Shakefpeart 2. To labour or polith lefs than enough Apelles faid of Protogenes, that he knew no when to give over. A work may be overwrough Dryden as well as wnderwwrought 3. To work at a price below the common UNDERWO'RKMAN. 7. /. [under and workAn inferiour or {fubordinate la man. bourer Nor woul they hire wider-vorkmen to emplo their parts and learning to difarm their mother o Lfiflty all Underavorkme are exper enoug at m-akmg fingle wheel in a clock, but are utterly ignoran Saift how to adjuft the feveral parts 7 UNDERWRI'TE w. a an [unde awrite.] 'T'o write under fomething elfe He began firft with his pipe, and then with hi and men of renown and adventurous ac voice, thus to challenge Dorus and was by hi Raleigh's Hiftery of the World anfwered in the underauritten fort Sidney If this feem too great a wndertaking for the humour of our age, then fuch a fum of money ough to lie ready for taking off ‘all fuch pieces of clot UNDERT . 4. preterite uader 7o UNDERWO'RK Young firength furpafling others that is, of great waderta you fell underwood, fow haws and floes U'xDERWORK. 7. /. [under and awork. Subordinate bufinefs ; petty affairs » And with his fpade the fexton marks the ground they are called; which fheweth preterite of undergo Mortimer While rival undertakers hover round Mighty me Walton low trees that grow among the timber 3. One who manages funerals UNDERTA'KING. 2. /0 [from undertake. Attempt; enterprize; engagement U'NDERWOOD. 7. /. [under and wood,] Th Waoodward Oblige thy fav'rite undertaker UnperWE'NT plexities that fome undertakers have encumbered i with 7. /. [from urza'erwlué. An undervalyer of money was Sir Henry Wot Clar Antrim was naturally a great yndertaker Upndertakers in Rome purchafe the digging o .4ddifon fields, and arrive at great eftates by it This ferves to free the enquiry from the per Temple One who efteems lightly If the curiousfearch the hills after rains,I dar undertake they will not lofe their labour careleflnefs, or knavgfy o credit of thefe commodities abroad to hazard 2. To venture unfkilfulnefs the traders, added much to the undervalye and dif 4. To have the charge of as fhall be brought in The prefent phyficia man, and well read Y Fell and expedient in this fingle ftate O Lords I am opprefled, undertake for me ‘I ipeak as my wnderffandin as mine honefty puts it to But whe The charity of his mother, who wndertook th manage of his family, became a feafonable afliftan 3. To engage with ; to attack Milton #. J. [fro Her name is Portia nothing underyafye The tafk he undertake Is numb'ring fands, and drinking oceans dry. Shak W 1 underfland, and grow, and fee 3 to engage in. 1. To attempt 9o UNDERSTA'ND. @. 7 1. To have the ufe of intelle€tua T Not to be ignoran UN UN UN NANT Temple uz.f [i/m/w' an Zmam‘. A fecondary tenant ; one who holds fro him that holds from the owner Settle and fecure the wndertenants; to the en there may be arepofe and eftablithment of every fubJe€s eftate, lord and tenant Dawies's Hift. of Irel UnDERTOOK. preterite of undertake UNDERVALUA'TION. 7. /. [under an walue. Rate not equal to the worth What addition and chang have here underavritten I have made, Sanderf . t UNDERWRITER. 7 /. [from underwrite. An infurer; fo called from wrmng'hx name under the conditions UnpEscr1'BED adj Not defcnbed. They urge, that God left nothing in his .WOT undefcribed, whethe it concerne the worfhip - Hooker God, or outward polity This is fuch a fingular pra\f.hce., _thatI hadchra ther leave it undeferibed, than give itits prope radter cha Collier on Pride ; un UnpEscr1'ED. adj, Notfeen; unfee difcovered Thete is often failing by an wndervaluation; for in divers children their ingenerate powers are of UNDESE'RVED. adj flow difclofure Wotton 1. Not merited; not obtained by me_r}t- This viftory obtained with great, and f'" ToUNDERVA'LUE, v, a. [under and value. honour to the two prxpcqi;ow wndeferved no 1. Torate low; to efteem lightly; to trea whole eftates, witk one confent, gave th"-;}; as of little worth to Mufidorus ggy 2. No |