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

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Example Sentences

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unsphere unsphered

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 S. C. (Stephen Cullen) Carpenter

You put me off with limber vows; but I, Tho' you would seek t' unsphere the stars with oaths Should still say, "Sir, no going!"

From Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson

When she deserted him, he held her up to contempt as an old sorceress who could by charms unsphere the moon.—Horace,

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

The beauty thou dost worship dwells in thee:     Within thy soul divine it harboureth:     This also bids my spirit soar, and saith     Words that unsphere for me heaven's harmony.

From Sonnets by John Addington Symonds

"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 Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton

Can men worship the wan features, The sunk eyes, the wailing tone, Of unsphered, discrowned creatures, Souls as little godlike as their own?

From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Matthew Arnold

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

From Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn by Lafcadio Hearn

They are passed 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 The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

I could not think of this "unsphered angel wofully astray" without inward tears that dimmed the vision of my foreboding heart.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 by Various

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 Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

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