disburthening

Church, mounted upon the altar, and there did that which in cleanly phrase is called disburthening of nature: He was discovered, prosecuted, and condemned to pay a thousand pounds, which sum was all employed to support the Church, as, no doubt, the benefactor meant it.

The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 09 Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer Jonathan Swift 1706

The writing them in this my lonely State, was like discoursing, or disburthening one's Heart to a Friend.

A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies 2008

[The 28 of Iuly.] and for that cause (according to her Maiesties prescription) he tooke forthwith eight of his woorst and basest ships which came next to hand, and disburthening them of all things which seemed to be of any value, filled them with gun-powder, pitch, brimstone, and with other combustible and firy matter; and charging all their ordinance with powder, bullets, and stones, he sent the sayd ships vpon the 28 of

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

It weighs down like the weeping clouds on the damp heavy earth, and there's no lifting it, nor disburthening of the souls of men of this intolerable weight.

My New Curate P.A. Sheehan

The old Armenian, who paints the costumes of the Turks in water-colours, was there in waiting for me; and after disburthening him of all his collection, I copied the portrait of a Georgian slave, which he had in his possession.

Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833 John Auldjo

Yet upon one occasion, he could not forbear a little disburthening himself to the old Dansker, tempted thereto perhaps by the influence of a balmy night when the ship lay becalmed; the twain, silent for the most part, sitting together on deck, their heads propped against the bulwarks.

Billy Budd 1924

But the Major’s wife kept her place, and he went away without disburthening himself of his speech.

XXXII. In Which Jos Takes Flight and the War Is Brought to a Close 1917

It is farther an indication that the veins have frequent communications with one another, because they all become turgid together, whilst under the medium ligature applied above the elbow; and if any single small vein be pricked with a lancet, they all speedily shrink, and disburthening themselves into this they subside almost simultaneously.

XI. The Second Position Is Demonstrated 1909

It was the disburthening of an oppressed soul that suffered horribly at times from morbid melancholy -- the chicken-pox of youthful genius.

The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Calvin Thomas 1886

He will forgive me for speaking openly, for I cannot refrain from disburthening my mind, and letting you know, even more than you are at present aware of, what your Senor -- what your Lord truly is.

Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 2 Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862