ungird

American  

[uhn-gurd] / ʌnˈgɜrd /

verb (used with object)

ungirded, ungirt, ungirding

1. to loosen or remove a girdle or belt from.

2. to loosen or remove by unfastening a belt.

   to ungird a sword.

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Etymology

Origin of ungird

before 900; Middle English ungirden, Old English ungyrdan; see un- ², gird ¹; cognate with German entgürten

Example Sentences

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ungird ungirded ungirding ungirt

I prithee now, ungird     thy strangeness, and tell me what I shall vent to my lady.

From Twelfth Night; or What You Will by William Shakespeare

Here was a home for the wanderers, Now could we ungird our loins, Doff our shoes, lay aside our staves.

From Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes by Stefan Zweig

I prithee now, ungird thy strangeness, and tell me what I shall vent to my lady; shall I vent to her that thou art coming?

From Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

Suddenly Count Zichy and his fair cousin broke out from the large circle, and setting to him, he was led off to the waltz movement before he had time to ungird his sword.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 582, December 22, 1832 by Various

I am afraid this great lubber, the world, will prove a cockney.—I pr'ythee now, ungird thy strangeness, and tell me what I shall vent to my lady.

From Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

Then after Sir Launcelot had thus eaten he said, "I am aweary," and therewith he arose and ungirded his armor, and laid it aside, piece by piece, even to the very last piece thereof.

From The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions by Howard Pyle

Yatsek ungirded his sabre, drew it out of the scabbard, looked at the edge by the light of the chimney, and fell to rubbing the blade with his handkerchief.

From On the Field of Glory An Historical Novel of the Time of King John Sobieski by Henryk Sienkiewicz

Then he unlaced his helm, and ungirded his sword, and laid himself down to sleep upon his shield tofore the cross.

From Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur" by U. Waldo Cutler

"Discinct" is good, but "ungirded" is better because it is not obsolete, and it is more sonorous and Saxon.

From Unicorns by James Huneker

Undine, on entering her bedroom late that evening, was startled by the presence of a muffled figure which revealed itself, through the dimness, as the ungirded midnight outline of Mrs. Spragg.

From The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton

He sat down upon the ground, and ungirding the sword, which he bore above his vestments, did not remember to shield the hilt from the rays of the sun.

From The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott

And ungirding his sword, he knelt down before Philippe, and did homage to him, asking his assistance to re-establish his rights.

From Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II by Charlotte Mary Yonge

She wore a dark, shapeless, ungirt robe covered with patches and stains.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

Returning care Had roused th' industrious hag, with footstep bare, And loins ungirt, the sleeping fire to light; And lovers thrill'd that season of despight, Which wont renew their tears, and wake despair.

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Thomas Campbell

Her robe, ungirt from clasp to hem, No wrought flowers did adorn, But a white rose of Mary's gift, For service meetly worn; Her hair that lay along her back Was yellow like ripe corn.

From Loyal to the School by Angela Brazil

In this ungirt hour there imported himself into our life a youngish-looking middle-aged man of the name of Shend, with a blurred face and deprecating eyes.

From A Diversity of Creatures by Rudyard Kipling

Browning characteristically blames them for their sin of "the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin," for their vacillating purpose, their failure in attaining "their life's set end," whatever that end might be.

From An Introduction to the Study of Browning by Arthur Symons