unbev.1
rare.
intransitive. To lack being; to be non-existent.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > be non-existent [verb (intransitive)]
unbe1434
R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Mending of Life 122 As qwo say: syn in vs may vnrene [= not reign], bot it may not vnbe.
a1795 Bonnie James Campbell iv, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1890) IV. vii. 143/2 My house is unbigged, my barn's unbeen.
1885 R. F. Burton tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm. IV. 248 This ecstasy would see my being unbe.
1898 T. Hardy Wessex Poems 182 But for the charge that blessed things I'd liefer have unbe.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
unbev.2
To deprive of being; to make non-existent.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)]
to bring to noughteOE
forspillc893
fordilghec900
to bring to naughtOE
astryea1200
stroyc1200
forferec1275
misdoa1325
destroyc1330
naught1340
dingc1380
beshenda1400
devoida1400
unshapea1400
to wend downa1400
brittenc1400
unloukc1400
perishc1426
defeat1435
unmake1439
lithc1450
spend1481
kill1530
to shend ofc1540
quade1565
to make away1566
discreate1570
wrake1570
wracka1586
unwork1587
gaster1609
defease1621
unbe1624
uncreate1633
destructa1638
naufragate1648
stifle1725
stramash1788
disannul1794
destructify1841
locust1868
to knock out1944
dick1972
1624 Trag. Nero iii. sig. E1v How oft, with danger of the field beset, Or with home mutineys, would he vnbee Himselfe.
1646 S. Bolton Arraignment of Errour 13 God..could as easily destroy them, as subdue them, unbee them as conquer them.
1759 R. Shirra in Rem. (1850) 118 He would not only dethrone, but un-be God, un-God him.
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