| 释义 |
unˈshrine, v.
[un-2 5.]
trans. To remove from, cast out of, a shrine. Also fig.
1599Life Sir T. More in Wordsw. Eccl. Biog. (1853) II. 181 We have of late unshrined him [sc. Thomas of Canterbury]. 1609Holland Amm. Marcell. 230 The image of Apollo Chomeus being displaced, unshrined, and brought to Rome. 1652Benlowes Theoph. vii. xvii, Could'st thou.., from each golden cell, unshrine Those beams. 1807J. Barlow Columb. ix. 612 Descartes..Unshrines old errors and propounds his own. 1827Carlyle Germ. Rom. I. 5 Musäus grasped his satirical hammer; and with lusty strokes, defaced and unshrined the false divinity. |