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

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

O give me music—for my soul doth faint; ��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 its cell unsphere.

From The Poetical Works of Henry Kirk White : With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas by White, Henry Kirk

"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

To unsphere the spirit of Plato is to call him from the sphere in which he abides in the other world, or, simply, to take in hand for study his writings on immortality. 93-96.

From Minor Poems by Milton by Milton, John

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