单词 | unwrest |
释义 | † unwrestv. Obsolete. transitive. To undo, detach, or dislocate, by wresting or wrenching. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > detach [verb (transitive)] > with violence > by wrenching or wresting unwresta1450 unwrench1818 a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Merlin (1913) II. l. 13942 The ȝate closed aȝen also faste As hit ne hadde neuere ben vnwraste. 1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur viii. xxxiv. 326 Bothe his handes..were fast bounden vnto knyghtes;..sodenly he pulled them bothe to hym, and vnwrast his handes. 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. xxv Haddest thou leuer se Thy sonnes necke vnwrested wyth a rope, Than [etc.]. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Distorcere,..to wriggle, to wrest, to vnwrest. 1613 S. Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. ii. 139 Their occasions made them somewhat to vnrest [1617 unwrest] the Soueraigntie from that height whereunto hee had strayned it. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < v.a1450 |
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