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▪ I. † unˈgrave, a. Obs. (un-1 7.)
1609J. Davies (Heref.) Holy Roode Wks. (Grosart) I. 7/1 Now thinke..thou seest those hounds of hell,..With vngraue gate, to runne doe him compell. 1642in Clarendon Hist. Reb. v. §276 Sure,..the Penner of that Declaration inserted that ungrave and insolent expression,..without the consent..of both Houses. a1674Clarendon Surv. Leviath. 73 A very bold and ungrave wresting of Scripture. ▪ II. unˈgrave, v. [un-2 5.] trans. To take out of the grave; to disinter.
1664J. Wilson Commenius ii. i, I scorn to raze Thy monument, or to ungrave thy dust. 1788Mickle Eskdale Braes ix, As the spectres, ungrav'd, glide along. 1849Rock Ch. of Fathers II. vi. 179 note, The unknown bishop whose body was as late as a.d. 1827, ungraved in Durham cathedral. 1866R. Morris Ayenb. 61 margin, The beast Hyane, who ungraves dead men's bodies and eats them. |