| 释义 |
▪ I. unwrest
variant of unwrast a. Obs.
▪ II. † unˈwrest, v. Obs.
Also 5 pa. tense and pa. pple. vnwrast(e; 7 vnrest.
[un-2 9.]
trans. To undo, detach, or dislocate, by wresting or wrenching.
c1450Lovelich Merlin 13942 The ȝate closed aȝen also faste as hit ne hadde neuere ben vnwraste. 1470–85Malory Arthur viii. xxxiv. 326 Bothe his handes..were fast bounden vnto knyghtes;..sodenly he pulled them bothe to hym, and vnwrast his handes. 1509Barclay Shyp of Folys 25 Haddest thou leuer se Thy sonnes necke vnwrested wyth a rope, Than [etc.]. 1598Florio, Distorcere,..to wriggle, to wrest, to vnwrest. 1613Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. ii. 139 Their occasions made them somewhat to vnrest [1617 unwrest] the Soueraigntie from that height whereunto hee had strayned it. |