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Unbecoming. Milton. -- Mis`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Mis`be*com"ing*ness, n. Boyle.

Misbelief; unbelief; suspicion. [Obs.] Chaucer.

for the special purpose of quickening the faith and zeal participants, and of converting unbelievers. Addis & Arnold.

Filled with motes, or fine floating dust; as, the air. "Moted sunbeams." Tennyson.

Free from what is unbecoming, inappropriate, or tawdry; simple and becoming; pleasing with simplicity; tasteful; chaste; as, a neat style; a neat dress.

An unbeliever. B. Jonson.

ct or deed. "In thy passages of life." Shak. The . . . almost incredible passage of their unbelief. South.

ple; to populate. "Peopled heaven with angels." Dryden. As the gay motes that people the sunbeams. Milton .

otment; share; fate. The lord of that servant . . . will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers. Luke xii. 46. Man's portion is to die and rise again. Keble.

To fall from Christian faith into paganism, heresy, or unbelief; to backslide. They enter into the justified state, and so continue all along, unless they relapse. Waterland.

To remit attention or effort; to become less diligent; to unbend; as, to relax in study.

k. To the resolving whereof we must first know that the Jews were commanded to divorce an unbelieving Gentile. Milton.

A romp; a wanton; one given to unbecoming conduct. [Obs.] Fuller.

In a manner to give offense; shamefully. His discourse at table was scandalously unbecoming the digmity of his station. Swift.

ty; easy in mind; not feeling suspicion or distrust; confident. But thou, secure of soul, unbent with woes. DRyden.

glide along near the surface. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Pope.

. "Rancor for to slack." Chaucer. I should be grieved, young prince, to think my presence Unbent your thoughts, and slackened 'em to arms. Addison. In this business of growing rich, poor men should slack their pace. South. With such delay Well plased, they slack their course. Milton.

dent or determined; to hesitate. He [Abraham] staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief. Rom. iv. 20.

Firm as a stub or stump; stiff; unbending; unyielding; persistent; hence, unreasonably obstinate in will or opinion; not yielding to reason or persuasion; refractory; harsh; -- said of persons and things; as, stubborn wills; stubborn ore; a stubborn oak; as stubborn as a mule. "Bow, stubborn knees." Shak. "Stubborn att…

Sunbeam. [R.] Mrs. Hemans.