undu

a. 1. Not due; not yet owing; as, an undue debt, note, or bond. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not right; not lawful or legal; improper; as, an undue proceeding. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Not agreeable to a rule or standard, or to duty; disproportioned; excessive; immoderate; inordinate; as, an undue attachment to forms; an undue rigor in the execution of law. [ 1913 Webster ]

Undue influence (Law), any improper or wrongful constraint, machination, or urgency of persuasion, by which one's will is overcome and he is induced to do or forbear an act which he would not do, or would do, if left to act freely. Abbott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being undue. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + duke. ] To deprive of dukedom. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Undulating. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Undulate. ] Moving like waves; undulatory. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To move in, or have, undulations or waves; to vibrate; to wave; as, undulating air. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. undulatus undulated, wavy, a dim. from unda a wave; cf. AS. &unr_;&unr_;, Icel. unnr; perhaps akin to E. water. Cf. Abound, Inundate, Redound, Surround. ] Same as Undulated. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Undulated p. pr. & vb. n. Undulating. ] To cause to move backward and forward, or up and down, in undulations or waves; to cause to vibrate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Breath vocalized, that is, vibrated and undulated. Holder. [ 1913 Webster ]