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unˈcharm, v.
[un-2 3.]
1. trans. To deprive of magical powers; to nullify the efficacy or virtue of (a charm).
1575T. Vautrollier Luther on Ep. Gal. (1577) 95 We labour both by preaching and wryting vnto you, to vncharme that sorcerie wherewith the false apostles haue bewitched you. 1612J. Davies (Heref.) Muse's Sacr. Wks. (Grosart) II. 53/1 Vncharme the Charmes then, of these grieuous ioyes, that still allure my sense of them to taste. 1624Heywood Gunaik. viii. 402 Amasis King of Egypt was by the like exorcisme bound..till those ligatorie spells were after uncharmed. 1860J. Wolff Trav. & Adv. I. 362 The Russians convinced them that they could uncharm a talisman.
2. To free from a spell or from enchantment; to deliver from the influence of a charm. Also absol.
1621Lady M. Wroth Urania 554 He ran to take her vp, and try how to vncharme her, but he was instantly throwne out of the Caue in a trance. 1638Godolphin in G. Sandys Paraphr. Divine Poems Pref. Verses **j b, That Harp, whose Charms uncharm'd the brest Of troubled Saul. 1688E. Ravenscroft London Cuckolds 71, I will go home to my Wife, and uncharm her Mouth, and set her Tongue at Liberty. 1779F. Burney Diary 16 June, She charms and uncharms in a moment; she is a bane and an antidote at the same time. 1883Meredith Lett. (1912) II. 341 Where to go this year I do not know; perhaps nowhere. My last year's experience uncharmed me.
b. To deprive or rob of charm or fascination.
1835Willis Pencillings II. xli. 28 But one look at the terms that might describe it, written on paper, uncharms even the remembrance. |