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unˈsphere, v.
[un-2 5.]
trans. To remove (a star, etc.) from its sphere. Also in fig. context.
1611Shakes. Wint. T. i. ii. 48 Though you would seek t'vnsphere the Stars with Oaths. 1643Howell Parab. reflect. Times 5 Touching the malignant Planets..I put them over to you, that..they may be unspher'd or extinguished. 1796C. Anstey Pleaders' Guide (1803) 124 Th' adventrous Engineer Who swore he would the Earth unsphere,..Give him but where to set his foot. 1820Milman Fall Jerus. 117 If ye have seen the moon unsphered, And the stars fall. 1857P. Freeman Princ. Div. Serv. II. 57 Thus too did it supply..a new centre or centres for the gravitation of its mighty forces..in lieu of that which had been, so to speak, unsphered.
fig.1632Milton Penseroso 88 Where I may..unsphear The spirit of Plato. 1806H. K. White Fragments vi, Mine ear Longs for some air of peace,..That may the spirit from its cell unsphere. 1882J. Brown Horæ Subs. 3rd Ser. 4 Many have been the attempts to unsphere the spirit of a joke and make it tell its secret.
Hence unˈsphered ppl. a.
1598Chapman Hero & Leander iii. 186 Thou..That..with the wings Of thy vnspheared flame visitst the springs Of spirits immortall. 1833H. Coleridge Poems I. 41 Like a spectre of an age departed, Or unsphered Angel woefully astray—She glides along. 1849M. Arnold New Sirens 251 The sunk eyes, the wailing tone, Of unspher'd, discrowned creatures. |