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

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

When, pointing down, his father whispers, 'Here, Here, where we stand, stood he, the purely great, Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere, Then nameless, now a power and mixed with fate.'

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell

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)

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

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

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 Hearn, Lafcadio

If one were not a part of the season's fixed routine, one swung unsphered in a void of social non-existence.

From House of Mirth by Wharton, Edith

The thing is most like Brutus; but how out of his element, how unsphered from his right place, it shows him!

From The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar by Black, Ebenezer Charlton

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 Arnold, Matthew

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 Cooke, George Willis