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unˈbury, v.
[un-2 3.]
trans. To disinter; to take out of the ground again.
14..Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 581 Exhumo, to vnberye. 1481Caxton Godfrey cvi. 162 Whan the peple afoote knewe this, they ranne, And there vnburyed them, And toke them out of theyr sepultures and graues. 1530Palsgr. 766/2 It shulde seme that he hath done some great offence, that they unbury hym nowe. 1567Jewel Def. Apol. 100 The same Pope Steuin vnburied his Predecessour Pope Formosus, and defaced, and mangled his naked carkesse. 1605Willet Hexapla Gen. 250 The Sichemites..would rather haue vnburied them. 1647Trapp Comm. Rev. xi. 9 They unburied and burned the bones of Hermannus Ferrariensis after they had sainted him. 1848Gallenga Italy I. 61 As long as there remain..inscriptions to decipher, or ruins to unbury. 1876Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. ii. 132 The medicine by which vampires were cured was to unbury them, drive a stake through them [etc.].
b. fig. or in fig. context.
1620Shelton Quix. ii. xlix. 321 Because they come not in a fit time to haue audience: straight they back-bite..him, gnaw his bones, and vnbury his ancestors. a1739Jarvis Quix. (1749) II. iii. v. 217 Speaking ill of us, unburying our bones, and burying our reputations. 1839Lytton Richelieu i. i, Your breast holds both my secrets; Never Unbury either! 1862H. Aïdé Carr of Carrlyon I. 309 The secret is ours. No one has a right to demand us to unbury our past. 1887Browning Parleyings, Fust & Friends, Unbury that brow! Look up, that thy judge may read clear in thine eyes!
Hence unˈburying vbl. n.
1899S. Butler Shaks. Sonn. 117 To suppose that he sanctioned the unburying, is to deny the commonest instinct of humanity. |