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disinter, v.|dɪsɪnˈtɜː(r)| Also 7 disen-, -terre. [ad. F. désenterrer (15th c. in Littré), f. des- dis- 4 +enterrer to inter.] 1. trans. To take (something) out of the earth in which it is buried; to take (a corpse, etc.) out of the grave; to unbury, exhume.
1611Cotgr., Dessevelir, to disinterre, vnburie. 1627May Lucan ix. (R.) Isis (their Goddesse now) I'le disinterre. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vii. xix. 384 To disenterre the bodies of the deceased. 1658Evelyn Fr. Gard. (1675) 96 Dis-interre the greatest roots. 1867Pearson Hist. Eng. I. 2 The short shallow skulls which are even now disinterred in old barrows. 2. transf. and fig. To take out as if from a tomb; to bring out of concealment, ‘unearth’.
1711Addison Spect. No. 215 ⁋2 The Philosopher, the Saint, or the Hero..very often lie..concealed in a Plebeian, which a proper Education might have dis-interred. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. i, The two ladies who had been disinterred out of the fallen vehicle. |