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unˈrivet, v.
[un-2 3.]
1. trans. To undo, unfasten, or detach, by the removal of rivets.
1591Harington Orl. Fur. xlv. lxxii, No more the damsels force did now preuayle To pierce a plate, or to vn⁓riuet nayle. 1627Drayton Agincourt 46 Their Curates are vnriuetted with blowes. 1631Celestina xviii. 181 Who hewes, and unriviteth the finest maile but it [sc. the sword]? 1755T. H. Croker Orl. Fur. xxxi. xxi, While from their shields immense the sides they tear, Armour unrivetted, and mail unbound. 1758Goldsm. Mem. Protestant (1895) II. 83 At nine o'Clock..our Chains were again unrivetted. 1863Conington Hor., Odes iii. v. 18 Should aught but death the prisoner's chain Unrivet. 1885Law Rep. 15 Q.B.D. 360 The belts..could be removed from the shafting altogether by being unrivetted or unlaced.
2. fig. To undo, loosen, relax, detach, etc.
1620–51I. Jones Stone-Heng (1725) 13 He..sought to be..revenged on the British Nobility, who had wholly un⁓rivetted his Designs. 1665R. Brathwait Comment Two Tales (1901) 78 Some..unriveted the very Secrets of their own Brests, and told him what they most desired. 1706E. Baynard in Floyer Hot & Cold Bath. ii. 199 Nothing is harder than to unrivet a wrong Notion. 1803Scott Let. in Lockhart (1837) I. xi. 378 We sincerely hope Mrs. Ellis and you will unrivet yourselves from your forest. 1853E. S. Sheppard Ch. Auchester III. 158 Before I had spoken or even unriveted my gaze.
Hence unˈrivetting vbl. n.
1611Cotgr., Desrivement, an vnriuetting. a1662Heylyn Laud (1668) 370 By which he screwed himself so far into his Majesties good opinion, that whosoever undertook the unrivetting of him, made him faster in it. 1885W. Morris in Mackail Life (1899) II. 134 Only the complete unriveting of the chain will really free us. |