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unˈcloud, v.
[un-2 4 b.]
1. trans. To clear or free from clouds.
1598Florio, Disnebbiare, to vncloude, to cleere vp. c1610Beaum. & Fl. Philaster iv. i, 'Tis the King Will have it so, whose breath can still the winds, Uncloud the Sun. 1652Benlowes Theoph. v. lxxiii, This Monarch Star, Making his progresse through the Signes, unclouds the air.
2. transf. and fig. To free from obscurity or gloom; to clear, make clear.
1594Constable's Diana Printer to Rdr., Obscur'd wonders..visited me.., and I in regard of Aeneas honour, have vn⁓clouded them vnto the worlde. 1607Earl Stirling J. Cæsar iv. i, When friend-ship one of them pretends, The other like⁓wise doth un-cloud the face. a1711Ken Hymnotheo Poet. Wks. 1721 III. 375 Down from high Heav'n rush'd a strong gracious Wind, Dispelling Mists, unclouding ev'ry Mind. 1789T. Twining Aristotle's Treat. Poetry (1812) I. 305 It is in the true spirit of a modern drinking song; recommending it to the servant to uncloud his brow. 1891C. E. Norton Dante's Purgat. xxviii. 179 The psalm..affords light which may uncloud your understanding.
refl.a1672P. S[terry] Appear. God to Man Wks. (1710) 328 Things seen in their Unseen and Divine Forms, un⁓clouding themselves, shining out upon the Soul.
3. absol. To become clear.
1874Kingsley Lett., etc. (1877) II. 431, I am hopeful that as she gets weaker the brain will uncloud. 1879G. Macdonald P. Faber I. xv. 176 Every now and then she cast up a glance, and there were black suns unclouding over a white sea.
Hence unˈclouding vbl. n.
1704Norris Ideal World ii. iii. 162 It is for the unclouding of both, to observe a definitive strickness in the use of our words. |