unsphere

American  

[uhn-sfeer] / ʌnˈsfɪər /

verb (used with object)

unsphered, unsphering

1. to remove from its or one's sphere; displace.

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unsphere British  

/ ʌnˈsfɪə /

verb

1. poetic (tr) to remove from its, one's, etc, sphere or place

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Etymology

Origin of unsphere

First recorded in 1605–15; un- ² + sphere

Example Sentences

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unsphere unsphered

You put me off with limber vows; but I, Though you would seek to unsphere the stars with oaths, Should yet say 'Sir, no going.'

From The Winter's Tale by Shakespeare, William

"Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear, Or thrice-great Hermes, and unsphere The spirit of Plato."

From Eugene Aram — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

I'm sick of noise and care: and now mine ear Longs for some air of peace, some dying plaint That may the spirit from it's cell unsphere.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)

When, pointing down, his father whispers, 'Here, Here, where we stand, stood he, the purely great, Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere, Then nameless, now a power and mixed with fate.'

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell

I have learnt a few oaths lately that I reckon will unsphere some of the scandal-mongers of Nephelococcygia.

From Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series by Aberigh-Mackay, George Robert

They are past away As Fairies vanish at the break of day; And like a spectre of an age departed, Or unsphered Angel wofully astray, She glides along—the solitary-hearted.

From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

And stars no longer hot; Or broken constellations strewn Like coals about the heavenly floor, And rush of night upon the noon Of their lost worlds, unsphered restorelessly In icy deserts of the sky.

From The Star-Treader and other poems by Smith, Clark Ashton

I have been quite unsphered since I have been here, in various ways, and have discovered how good every man's business is and how wide his horizon.

From Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis by Cooke, George Willis

And if it be either of these, shall we say that education has unsphered and unsexed her?

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

We unsphered Plato, we speculated as to what Euripides would have thought of Henry James, or whether Sophocles would have enjoyed Miss—-'s acting, and felt that it was of vital import to decide these matters.

From The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography by Strachey, John St. Loe