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

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

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)

"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 Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

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)

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

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

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

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 Strachey, John St. Loe

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

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