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

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

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 Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)

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)

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

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