disentwined

Childebert then disentwined the child's tender arms clasping his knees -- he was but six years of age -- and pushed him to his brother, who drove a dagger into his breast.

The Story of Paris Thomas Okey 1893

The generous policy which would have restored the State and made a new union possible, which would have disentwined much of the passionate clinging to the past, was crossed by the death of the only man who could have carried it through, if even he could have carried it through; and years of trouble had to pass before the current of national life ran freely through the Southern

The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915 1877

As our political judgments often turn on similar criteria, I’m not as sanguine as KA that the two can be so easily disentwined, which doesn’t mean that attempting to do so would be any less valuable, especially if it leads us to compelling critiques of presents practice such as the one KA makes.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Voting, Religion, and Public Officials: 2009

The boys attacked them with stones, and the reptiles quickly disentwined them - selves, and made battle for some time, by hissing at their assailants; one, more bold than the rest, advanced towards one of the boys, who fortunately killed it with a stone; it measured above four feet in length, and had several frogs in its belly. "

Omniana, or Horae otiosiores Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834 1812