| 释义 |
unˈstate, v.
[un-2 6 b.]
1. trans. To deprive of state, rank, or estate.
c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. lxxxix. xiv, Takes he his weapon? thou the edge rebatest... Would march with kingly pomp? thou him unstatest. 1605Shakes. Lear i. ii. 108, I would vnstate my selfe, to be in a due resolution. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. viii. 490/2 [They] proceeded to vnstate him of that goodliest portion of France. 1624F. White Repl. Fisher 572 The Romane Pope hath a direct power to depose and vnstate them [sc. kings]. 1879J. Todhunter Alcestis 30 Alack! the best of us May Zeus unstate.
2. To deprive of the character of a state.
1647Ward Simp. Cobler 22 States are unstated, Rulers growne Over-rulers..Churches decayed. |