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unsphere

American  
[uhn-sfeer] / ʌnˈsfɪər /

verb (used with object)

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


unsphere British  
/ ʌnˈsfɪə /

verb

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of unsphere

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

Example Sentences

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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 Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

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 Rice, Cale Young

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

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

From Yolanda of Cyprus by Rice, Cale Young

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 Symonds, John Addington

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