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disrobe, v.|dɪsˈrəʊb|
Also 6–7 -roab.
[dis- 6 or 7 a. Cf. OF. desrober in same sense.]
1. trans. To divest or strip of a robe or garment; to undress, strip. Const. of, from.
1590Spenser F.Q. i. iii. 17 The holy Saints of their rich vestiments He did disrobe. 1595Shakes. John ii. i. 147 He..That did disrobe the Lion of that robe. 1601― Jul. C. i. i. 69 Disrobe the Images. 1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 236 One holds his knee; a second disroabs him. 1648Mayne Amorous War iv. vi, Disrobe your upper parts. 1725Pope Odyss. xx. 312 Dis-rob'd, their vests apart in order lay. 1847Tennyson Princ. Concl. 117 Lilia Disrobed the glimmering statue of Sir Ralph From those rich silks.
2. refl. and intr. To divest oneself of clothing; to undress.
1581Mulcaster Positions xxxiv. (1887) 122 They disrobed themselues, and were chafed with a gentle kinde of rubber. 1603Order Coronation Jas. I in Maskell Mon. Rit. (1846–7) III. 109 note, The king..there disrobeth himself of his upper garments. 1715–20Pope Iliad v. 904 Pallas disrobes. 1807Crabbe Sir E. Grey xx, They make the hypocrite disrobe. 1883Gilmour Mongols xviii. 211 You will notice as they disrobe, that each and all wear at their breast charms.
3. transf. and fig. To divest, strip.
1592Nobody & Someb. in Simpson Sch. Shaks. I. (1878) 299 Archigallo shall be deposd, And thou disroab'd of all thy dignitie. 1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 330 Nutmeg..at full ripnesse disroabs it selfe, and discovers..the Mace. 1751Smollett Per. Pic. (1779) IV. cii. 321 Desire to see her fair eyes disrobed of..resentment. 1878G. Macdonald Phantastes vii. 112 The very voice..seemed to disrobe the room of the strange look.
Hence disˈrobed ppl. a.; disˈrobing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1794Mrs. Piozzi Synon. II. 302 Writers who delight not in disrobed meaning. 1813Shelley Q. Mab ix. 171 Fear not..death's disrobing hand. 1841Lane Arab. Nts. I. 121 The first apartment is the..disrobing room. 1903‘A. McNeill’ Egregious Eng. 58 The bare business of robing and disrobing takes up pretty well half her waking day. 1912L. A. Harker Mr. Wycherly's Wards x, Neither of them cared a whit for Jane-Anne and her disrobings. |