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

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

Let us again take rapture wings and rise Up to our world of love, guilt would unsphere.

From Yolanda of Cyprus by Cale Young Rice

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

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 William Shakespeare

Is not that face the Sphinx, Whose timeless and intemperable meaning No man has read in desert, star, or sea, But which must be the secret I unsphere?

From The Immortal Lure by Cale Young Rice

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

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 John St. Loe Strachey

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 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 George Willis Cooke

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