Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To deprive of or eject from a nest; dislodge; eject.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare Same as
unnest .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
unnest .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But Aedituus cried to him, Hold, hold, honest friend! strike, wound, poison, kill, and murder all the kings and princes in the world, by treachery or how thou wilt, and as soon as thou wouldst unnestle the angels from their cockloft.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Lucifer will break loose, and issuing forth of the depth of hell, accompanied with his furies, fiends, and horned devils, will go about to unnestle and drive out of heaven all the gods, as well of the greater as of the lesser nations.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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But Aedituus cried to him, Hold, hold, honest friend! strike, wound, poison, kill, and murder all the kings and princes in the world, by treachery or how thou wilt, and as soon as thou wouldst unnestle the angels from their cockloft.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Lucifer will break loose, and issuing forth of the depth of hell, accompanied with his furies, fiends, and horned devils, will go about to unnestle and drive out of heaven all the gods, as well of the greater as of the lesser nations.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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But Aedituus cried to him, Hold, hold, honest friend! strike, wound, poison, kill, and murder all the kings and princes in the world, by treachery or how thou wilt, and as soon as thou wouldst unnestle the angels from their cockloft.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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I would have you call to mind the strength of the ancient giants that undertook to lay the high mountain Pelion on the top of Ossa, and set among those the shady Olympus, to dash out the gods 'brains, unnestle them, and scour their heavenly lodgings.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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Lucifer will break loose, and issuing forth of the depth of hell, accompanied with his furies, fiends, and horned devils, will go about to unnestle and drive out of heaven all the gods, as well of the greater as of the lesser nations.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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I would have you call to mind the strength of the ancient giants that undertook to lay the high mountain Pelion on the top of Ossa, and set among those the shady Olympus, to dash out the gods’ brains, unnestle them, and scour their heavenly lodgings.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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I would have you call to mind the strength of the ancient giants that undertook to lay the high mountain Pelion on the top of Ossa, and set among those the shady Olympus, to dash out the gods’ brains, unnestle them, and scour their heavenly lodgings.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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