unweaponv.
transitive. To deprive of a weapon or weapons.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > arming or equipping with weapons > arm or equip [verb (transitive)] > deprive (person) of weapons
spoilc1330
disarmc1425
unarm1560
unweapona1586
disweapon1602
spoil?1611
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. xxviii. sig. Zz5v He was no more amazed with his being vnweapned, then with the suddainnes therof.
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Disarmare, to disarme, to vn~weapon.
a1646 J. Gregory Posthuma (1649) 248 One night a Plague of Mice came upon him, and unweaponed his souldiers, by devouring their Harness-ties of Leather.
1662 H. Hibbert Exercitationes Theologicæ 106 in Syntagma Theologicum He beats down our enemies before us, unweaponing them.
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