单词 | unfrock |
释义 | unfrockv. 1. transitive. To strip (an ecclesiastic) of his frock as a sign of degradation; hence, to deprive of priestly function or office.The second quotation is the only source for the common attribution of the term to Queen Elizabeth. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > ordination > unfrocking > unfrock [verb (transitive)] unhodeOE disordain1297 disgradec1380 degrade1395 deprivec1400 inhibit1531 disorder1570 disbishop1585 defrock1600 uncassock1645 desecrate1674 unfrockify1694 unclergy1695 undignify1702 unordain1709 unfrock?a1750 disfrock1877 disgown1887 ungown1895 ?a1750 Forged Letter Q. Eliz. in Ann. Reg., Char. (1761) 15/1 If you do not forthwith fulfil your engagement, by ——, I will immediately unfrock you. 1817 T. L. Peacock Melincourt I. 10 He took especial care that this..should not reach the ears of his bishop, who would infallibly have unfrocked him. 1857 A. Trollope Barchester Towers III. xvii. 296 Clergymen have been unfrocked for less than what you have been guilty of. 1884 Nonconformist & Independent 22 May 505/3 Mr. Justice Stephen truly remarked, there was no power to unfrock him. 2. transferred. To unmask or expose. ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > disclose or reveal [verb (transitive)] unwryc825 unhelec1000 to draw forthc1175 unhillc1200 to bring forth?c1225 unsteekc1250 let witc1275 uncovera1300 wraya1300 knowc1300 barea1325 shrivec1374 unwrapc1374 again-covera1382 nakena1382 outc1390 tellc1390 disclosea1393 cough1393 unhidea1400 unclosec1400 unhaspc1400 bewrayc1405 reveal1409 accusea1413 reveil1424 unlocka1425 unrekec1425 disclude?1440 uncurec1440 utter1444 detect1447 break1463 expose1483 divinec1500 revelate1514 to bring (also put) to light1526 decipher1529 rake1547 rip1549 unshadow1550 to lay to sight1563 uppen1565 unlace1567 unvisor?1571 resign1572 uncloak1574 disshroud1577 spill1577 reap1578 unrip1579 scour1585 unharboura1586 unmask1586 uncase1587 descrya1591 unclasp?1592 unrive1592 discover1594 unburden1594 untomb1594 unhusk1596 dismask1598 to open upc1600 untruss1600 divulge1602 unshale1606 unbrace1607 unveil1609 rave1610 disveil1611 unface1611 unsecret1612 unvizard1620 to open up1624 uncurtain1628 unscreen1628 unbare1630 disenvelop1632 unclothe1632 to lay forth1633 unshroud1633 unmuffle1637 midwife1638 dissecret1640 unseal1640 unmantle1643 to fetch out1644 undisguise1655 disvelop1658 decorticate1660 clash1667 exert1692 disinter1711 to up with1715 unbundlea1739 develop1741 disembosom1745 to open out1814 to let out1833 unsack1846 uncrown1849 to bring (out) in (also into) the open1861 unfrock1866 disbosom1868 to blow the lid off1928 flush1950 surface1955 to take or pull the wraps off1964 1866 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. IX. xxix. 503 Spain had the monkish Calderon. There no poet like Molière unfrocked hypocrisy. Derivatives unˈfrocked adj. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > ordination > unfrocking > [adjective] degraded1483 disgraded1551 unfrocked1798 disfrocked1837 defrocked1891 1798 T. J. Mathias Pursuits of Lit. (ed. 5) 6 I love no atheist French Bishops, nor unfrocked grammarians in England. 1861 C. H. Pearson Early & Middle Ages Eng. 357 The unfrocked priest would of course be amenable to lay tribunals in future. 1880 W. H. Dixon Royal Windsor (ed. 3) III. xxiv. 245 On the unfrocked priest attempting flight, he..locked him in the Tower. unˈfrocking n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > ordination > unfrocking > [noun] privation1444 disgrading1531 deraignment1539 deprivation1551 unfrocking1644 1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 30 It is not the unfrocking of a Priest..that will make us a happy Nation. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1924; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1644 |
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