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Unsuitable to a son or a daughter; undutiful; not becoming a child. -- Un*fil"ial*ly, adv.

m, ecclesiastical corporations, instituted for the education of churchmen . . . What was taught in the greater part of those universities was suitable to the end of their institutions, either theology or something that was merely preparatory to theology. A. Smith.

To recall, as former laughter. [Obs. & R.] Sir T. More.

Not learned; untaught; uneducated; ignorant; illiterate.

To cause to forget, or to lose from memory, or to disbelieve what has been taught. Experience will unteach us. Sir T. Browne. One breast laid open were a school Which would unteach mankind the lust to shine or rule. Byron.

To train up; to educate. [Obs.] "Daughters which were well uptrained." Spenser.

One of the nine Muses, daughter of Zeus by Mnemosyne, and patron of astronomy.

an instrument or vessel used in a kitchen, or in domestic and farming business. Wagons fraught with utensils of war. Milton.

Vaulted. "The haughty vauty welkin." [Obs.] Taylor (1611).

A pregnant woman; a mother; as, A has a son B by one venter, and a daughter C by another venter; children by different venters.

h prompt eloquence Flowed from their lips in prose or numerous verse. Milton. Virtue was taught in verse. Prior. Verse embalms virtue. Donne.

Onset; rush; violent draught or wind. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To treat in a violent manner; to abuse. His wife Boadicea violated with stripes, his daughters with rape. Milton.

d; not accidental; as, if a man kills another by lopping a tree, it is not voluntary manslaughter.

we follow the hero with our whole attention, but seldom reflect on the vulgar heaps of slaughter. Rambler.

To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep. The father waketh for the daughter. Ecclus. xlii. 9. Though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps. Milton. I can not think any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it. Locke.

A kind of rolling walk. One taught the toss, and one the new French wallow. Dryden.

To be cured; to recover. [Obs.] Your daughter . . . shall warish and escape. Chaucer.

y of Monmouth relates, on the authority of Walter Calenius, that this lady [Rowena], the daughter of Hengist, knelt down on the approach of the king, and, presenting him with a cup of wine, exclaimed, Lord king wæs heil, that is, literally, Health be to you. N. Drake.

d breeding; refined in manners; polite; cultivated. I am as well-bred as the earl's granddaughter. Thackera