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14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 581 Exhumo, to vnberye.

1481 W. Caxton tr. Siege & Conqueste Jerusalem (1893) cvi. 162 Whan the peple afoote knewe this, they ranne, And there vnburyed them, And toke them out of theyr sepultures and graues.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 766/2 It shulde seme that he hath done some great offence, that they unbury hym nowe.

1567 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. 100 The same Pope Steuin vnburied his Predecessour Pope Formosus, and defaced, and mangled his naked carkesse.

1605 A. Willet Hexapla in Genesin 250 The Sichemites..would rather haue vnburied them.

1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (Rev. xi. 9) They unburied and burned the bones of Hermannus Ferrariensis after they had sainted him.

1848 ‘L. Mariotti’ Italy Past & Present I. 61 As long as there remain..inscriptions to decipher, or ruins to unbury.

1876 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 2nd Ser. 132 The medicine by which vampires were cured was to unbury them, drive a stake through them [etc.].

1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote ii. xlix. 321 Because they come not in a fit time to haue audience: straight they back-bite..him, gnaw his bones, and vnbury his ancestors.

a1739 C. Jarvis tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote (1742) II. iii. v. 196 Speaking ill of us, unburying our bones, and burying our reputations.

1839 E. Bulwer-Lytton Richelieu i. i Your breast holds both my secrets; Never Unbury either!

1862 H. Aïdé Carr of Carrlyon I. 309 The secret is ours. No one has a right to demand us to unbury our past.

1887 R. Browning Fust & Friends in Parleyings Unbury that brow! Look up, that thy judge may read clear in thine eyes!