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unˈgird, v.
[un-2 4, 4 b. Cf. MDu. on(t)gorden (Du. ont-), OHG. ingurten, -curten (MHG. engürten, G. entgürten).]
1. trans. and refl. To divest of, or free from, a girdle or girth.
In OE. (quot. c 900) also with instr. (of the thing) as well as acc. (of the person).
c900tr. Baeda's Hist. iii. xiv. (1890) 196 Se cyning þonne..ongyrde hine þa his sweorde & sealde his þeᵹne. c1000ælfric Saints' Lives xxx. 409 Se casere..het hine ungyrdan and bewæpnian. 14..in Wr.-Wülcker 578 Discingo, to ungyrd. 1530Palsgr. 768/1, I ungyrde a horse. 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. John xxi. 117 For thou vngirdedst or gyrdest thy self at thyne owne wil and pleasure. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 391 As he stoode at the Barre, the Lord Neuel was commaunded..to vngyrde him. 1601Holland Pliny II. 301 Let the man come,..and after he hath ungirt himselfe, gird her about the middle with his owne girdle. 1611Bible Gen. xxiv. 32 The man..vngirded his camels.
fig.1593Nashe Christ's T. E iv b, The resplendent..buildings of your Temple, (like a Drum), shal be vngirt & vnbraced. 1825Macaulay Ess., Milton (1897) 5 The sportive exercises for which the genius of Milton ungirds itself.
2. To release, or take off, by undoing a belt or girth.
1485Caxton Chas. Gt. 158 Rychard..descended fro hys hors for to vngyrde and lose hys sadle. 1623Bp. Hall Contempl., O.T. xix. iii, Was not this he that advised Benhadad, not to boast in the putting on his armour, as in the ungirding it. 1641J. Jackson True Evang. T. i. 63 How many..in the hot sun-shine of prosperity have ungirt and cast off that cloake. 1810Scott Lady of L. vi. xxii, When mourns thy tribe thy battles done,..Thy sword ungirt ere set of sun! 1848Bp. A. Jolly Observ. Sunday Services (ed. 4) 293 We must..never ungird our armour.
fig.1601Shakes. Twel. N. iv. i. 15, I prethee now vngird thy strangenes, and tell me.
Hence unˈgirding vbl. n.
1639J. Corbet (title), The Ungirding of the Scottish Armour: or, an Answer to the Informations [etc.]. |