† unapparelv.
Obsolete.
transitive. To disrobe, undress. Also figurative.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > undressing or removing clothing > undress or remove clothing [verb (transitive)] > strip or undress a person
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1577 M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. iv. xv. 66 The fyery pyle being prepared, he vnapparelled him selfe.
1602 T. Dekker Blurt Master-Constable sig. D2 Ladies vnapparell your deare beauties.
a1617 J. Mush Life M. Clitherow (1849) 194 She requested them that the women might unapparel her.
a1631 J. Donne Poems (1633) 140 That I can studie thee, And, by these meditations refin'd, Can unapparell and enlarge my minde.
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