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

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Example Sentences

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ungird ungirded ungirding ungirt

For on retiring they ungird the sack, and the part which they doubled about the knees they put up to the head.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 1690-1691 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Emma Helen Blair

Then he turned to Zbyszko: "But will you not ungird yourself and sing a little?"

From The Knights of the Cross or, Krzyzacy by Samuel A. Binion

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

“Uncover your heads, ungird your garments and cast the bones of your mother behind you.”

From Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls by Logan Marshall

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

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

And as he pronounced these words, Frederick ungirded his sword, and presented it to the young count.

From Tales and Novels — Volume 01 by Maria Edgeworth

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

From Unicorns by James Huneker

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

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

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

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

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

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

Certainly to Satan there could never be imputed the sin of "the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin."

From Milton by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh

Now in the ungirt hour—now ere we blink and drowse, Mithras, also a soldier, keep us true to our vows!

From Songs from Books by Rudyard Kipling

At the first glance it was not easy to recognize it; it was simply the figure of a very tall man in an ungirt costume, composed of shirt and pantaloons.

From In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The monk who balances him is in a white habit, but the figure kneeling below is in a black habit of the same pattern, ungirt, and with a cowl.

From St. Gregory and the Gregorian Music by E. G. P. Wyatt

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