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▪ I. † unˈspear, v.1 Obs.
[un-2 4 + spear v.1]
trans. To unbar; to open.
c1250Gen. & Ex. 25 Quhu lucifer..held hem sperd in helles male til god..unspered al ðe fendes sped. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xviii. 259, I here..How a spirit speketh to helle & bit vnspere þe ȝatis. c1400Laud Troy Bk. 1039 When it was with-inne ther lippes, Faste to-gedur hit hem grippes, That thei myȝt not her mouth vn-spere. c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 54 Late at eve thou wolt unspere the gate. c1450J. Capgrave Life St. Aug. 20 Poncian vnsperd þe bok and say wel þat it was a bok longing to cristen feith.
▪ II. unspear, v.2
[un-2 4 b + spear v.3]
trans. To free from being transfixed.
1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede xxxii, Mrs. Poyser,..unspearing her knitting, began to knit again with her usual rapidity. |