2. To make unlike a child; to divest of the characteristics of a child.
Bp. Hall.
Un*chris"ten (?), v. t. [1st pref. un- + christen.] To render
unchristian. [Obs. & R.] Milton.
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Un*chris"tened (?), a. [Pref. un- not + christened.] Not christened;
as, an unchristened child.
Un*chris"tian (?), a. [Pref. un- not + Christian.] 1. Not Christian;
not converted to the Christian faith; infidel.
2. Contrary to Christianity; not like or becoming a Christian; as,
unchristian conduct.
Un*chris"tian, v. t. [1st pref. un- + Christian.] To make unchristian.
[Obs.] South.
Un*chris"tian*ize (?), v. t. [1st pref. un- + Christianize.] To turn
from the Christian faith; to cause to abandon the belief and profession
of Christianity.
Un*chris"tian*ly, a. Unchristian. Milton.
Un*chris"tian*ly, adv. In an unchristian manner.
Un*chris"tian*ness, n. The quality or state of being unchristian. [R.]
Eikon Basilike.
Un*church" (?), v. t. [1st pref. un- + church.] 1. To expel, or cause
to separate, from a church; to excommunicate. Sir M. Hale.
2. To deprive of the character, privileges, and authority of a church.
South.
||Un"ci*a (?), n.; pl. Unciæ (#). [L. See Ounce a measure of weight.]
||1. (Rom. Antiq.) A twelfth part, as of the Roman as; an ounce.
||
2. (Alg.) A numerical coefficient in any particular case of the
binomial theorem. [Obs.]
Un"cial (?), a. [L. uncialis amounting to the twelfth part of a pound
or a foot, from uncia the twelfth part of a pound or of a foot, an
ounce, an inch: cf. F. oncial. See Inch a measure.] Of, pertaining to,
or designating, a certain style of letters used in ancient manuscripts,
esp. in Greek and Latin manuscripts. The letters are somewhat rounded,
and the upstrokes and downstrokes usually have a slight inclination.
These letters were used as early as the 1st century b. c., and were
seldom used after the 10th century a. d., being superseded by the
cursive style.
Un"cial, n. An uncial letter.
||Un`ci*a"tim (?), adv. [L.] Ounce by ounce.
||
Un"ci*form (?), a. [L. uncus a hook + -form.] Having the shape of a
hook; being of a curved or hooked from; hooklike.
Unciform bone (Anat.), a bone of the carpus at the bases of the fourth
and fifth metacarpals; the hamatum.
Un"ci*form, n. (Anat.) The unciform bone. See Illust. of
Perissodactyla.
||Un`ci*na"ta (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. uncinus a hook.] (Zoöl.) A
||division of marine chætopod annelids which are furnished with uncini,
||as the serpulas and sabellas.
||
Un"ci*nate (?), a. [L. uncinatus, from uncinus a hook, from uncus a
hook.] Hooked; bent at the tip in the form of a hook; as, an uncinate
process.
||Un`ci*na"tum (?), n. [NL., from L. uncinatus hooked.] (Anat.) The
||unciform bone.
||
||Un*ci"nus (?), n.; pl. Uncini (#). [L., a hook.] (Zoöl.) One of the
||peculiar minute chitinous hooks found in large numbers in the tori of
||tubicolous annelids belonging to the Uncinata.
||
Un*ci"pher (?), v. t. [1st pref. un- + cipher.] To decipher; as, to
uncipher a letter. [Obs.] Sir W. Temple.
Un*cir"cum*cised (?), n. Not circumcised; hence, not of the Israelites.
"This uncircumcised Philistine." 1 Sam. xvii. 26.
Un*cir`cum*ci"sion (?), n. 1. The absence or want of circumcision.