释义 |
unbeˈwitch, v. [un-2 3.] trans. To deliver from witchcraft; to disenchant.
1584R. Scot Discov. Witchcr. xii. xviii. (1886) 219 There be masses of purpose for this matter, to unbewitch the bewitched. 1646Gaule Cases Consc. 4 Their bewitched body or goods has served to unbewitch them. 1679Oates Serm. at St. Michaels Pref. A 4 b, That God..would unbewitch this Roman Catholick Synagogue, who believe none to be Christians but themselves. 1751G. Lavington Enthus. Meth. & Papists iii. (1754) 194 Barbara Dorea..confessed that she had unbewitched several whom she herself had bewitched. |