| 单词 |
unbody |
| 释义 |
unˈbody, v.
[un-2 7 and 3.]
†1. intr. To leave or quit the body. Obs.
c1374Chaucer Troylus v. 1550 The fate wold his soule sholde vnbodye, And shapen hadde a mene it out to dryue. 1387–8T. Usk Test. Love i. i. (Skeat) l. 88 These diseses mowen wel, by duresse of sorowe, make my lyfe to unbodye, and so for to dye.
2. trans. To remove from the body; to disembody.
a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VI, 83 Death..vnbodiyng the solle of this godly prince,..appalled the hertes..of the Englishe nacion. 1577Holinshed Chron. I. Hist. Scot. 138/1 Herevpon followed a feuer..that after xiiij. monethes space vnbodied his ghost. 1602Warner Alb. Eng. Epit. (1612) 394 Prince Edward,..also formerly vnbodied by that Tyrant Gloucester. 1650T. Vaughan Anthroposophia 53, I am unbodi'd by thy Books, and Thee, And in thy Papers finde my Extasie. 1753A. Murphy Gray's-Inn Jrnl. No. 60 II. 46 As soon as the Spirit shall be unbodied, it will instantly smile at our wisest Employments in this World. 1787Generous Attachment I. 174 Would to heaven it was in my power to unbody myself, and like a celestial being, to come to you on a sun beam!
fig.1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. ii. 51 Plato and Aristotle..took..the Theology and Doctrine of Incorporeals, but Unbodied, and Devested of its most Proper and convenient Vehicle, the Atomical Physiology.
†b. Chem. To render amorphous. Obs.—1
1651French Distill. v. 163 We must..consider which way we may unbody Nitre (because it is scarse possible to get it before it hath received its body). |
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