释义 |
▪ I. unˈbe, v.1 rare. [un-1 14.] intr. To lack being; to be non-existent.
1434Misyn Mending Life 122 As qwo say: syn in vs may vnrene [= not reign], bot it may not vnbe. a1795Bonnie James Campbell iv. in Child Ballads IV. (1890) 143/2 My house is unbigged, my barn's unbeen. 1885R. F. Burton Arab. Nts. IV. 248 This ecstasy would see my being unbe. 1898T. Hardy Wessex Poems 182 But for the charge that blessed things I'd liefer have unbe. ▪ II. unˈbe, v.2 [un-2 4.] To deprive of being; to make non-existent.
1624Trag. Nero iii. iii. in Bullen O. Pl. (1882) I. 51 How oft, with danger of the field beset Or with home mutineys, would he unbee Himselfe. 1646S. Bolton Arraignm. Err. 13 God..could as easily destroy them, as subdue them, unbee them as conquer them. 1759R. Shirra in Rem. (1850) 118 He would not only dethrone, but un-be God, un-God him. |