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▪ I. uncreˈate, ppl. a.
[un-1 8 b and 5 b.]
= uncreated ppl. a.
1548–9Bk. Com. Prayer, Quicunque vult, The father un⁓create, the sonne uncreate, and the holy gost uncreate. 1608L. Machin Dumbe Knight iii. i, A creature vncreate in paradise, And one thats onely of a womans making. 1807Opie in Lect. Paint. i. (1848) 240 All that poets yet have feigned..of uncreate or unembodied being. 1842Manning Serm. (1848) I. i. 3 We talk of powers, and qualities,..and the like; but..they do not exist apart from beings, create or uncreate. 1870Myers Poems 120 Then in scorn My lips are silent; uncreate, unborn, Evanishes the visionary lay.
absol.1851Kingsley Yeast xvii, You can only see the Uncreate in the Create—the Infinite in the Finite.
▪ II. uncreˈate, v.
[un-2 3.]
trans. To undo the creation of; to unmake. Also refl.
1633Prynne Histrio-m. 172 Is this a light, a despicable effeminacie, for men..thus purposely..to vnman, vn⁓christian, vncreate themselves? 1640Habington Edw. IV, 37 It was as easie for him to uncreate as to create a King. 1690C. Nesse O. & N. Test. I. 2 When we are once created in Christ, we can, indeed, do something to uncreate our selves. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) III. 107 Could I have had my wish, creation would again have been uncreated. 1847Bushnell Chr. Nurt. viii. (1861) 209 One religion was creating and the other uncreating manhood. 1894Fallen Angels xxi. 112 God himself could not preserve the unfilial from suffering, save by uncreating them.
absol.a1634Chapman & Shirley Chabot v. i. 89 With one breath they uncreate. 1651Stanley Poems 74 Thus thy diviner Muse a power 'bove Fate May boast, that can both make and uncreate. 1744Young Nt. Th. vii. 1221 But tho' you can deform, you can't destroy; To curse, not uncreate, is all your pow'r. |