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unˈswathe, v.
[un-2 4.]
trans. To free from swathings; to unswaddle.
a1400Octovian 302 Her chylderen sche douȝte þer to baþe; Sche sat adoun hem to vnswade. 1598Florio, Sfasciare, to vnswathe, to vnbind. 1604Drayton Moses Map Miracle 13 This most sweete princesse..Soone on her knee vnswathes it as her owne. 1711Addison Spect. No. 90 ⁋7 About Nine a Clock..an old Woman came to unswathe me. 1788A. Hughes Henry & Isabella I. 115 Sir George..insisted upon the nurse's immediately unpinning and unswathing him. a1822Shelley Fragm. Unf. Drama 207 Spring indeed Came to unswathe her infants. 1837P. Keith Bot. Lex. s.v. Bulb, An Egyptian mummy that was lately unswathed in this country. 1896Allbutt's Syst. Med. I. 419 At the end of every three hours the child is unswathed.
fig.1593Nashe Christ's T. I j b, I will vnswathe thy breast with my sharpe knyfe. 1827Coleridge Lit. Rem. (1839) IV. 319 Spinoza himself describes his own philosophy as in substance the same with that of..the Cabalists—only unswathed from the Biblical dress. 1833Tennyson in Ld. Tennyson Mem. (1897) I. 115 The clouds unswathe them from the height. 1873H. Rogers Orig. Bible i. 42 How came any of them to unswathe themselves from all these lifelong notions. |