Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To remove from a sphere.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To remove, as a planet, from its sphere or orb.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To remove from a sphere, as in celestial bodies; to remove from the heavens.
Etymologies
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Examples
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'unsphere' (_Il Pens. _ 88), is used by Milton with a literal reference to the cosmical framework as a whole (see _Hymn Nat. _ 48) or to some portion of it.
Milton's Comus John Milton 1641
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Though you would seek to unsphere the stars with oaths,
The Winter’s Tale 2004
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Anything which tends in the least to unsex, to unsphere woman, by so much works with a reflex influence on man and on society, and produces in both a gradual and dangerous deterioration.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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Though you would seek to unsphere the stars with oaths,
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I have learnt a few oaths lately that I reckon will unsphere some of the scandal-mongers of Nephelococcygia.
Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series George Robert Aberigh-Mackay 1864
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When she deserted him, he held her up to contempt as an old sorceress who could by charms unsphere the moon.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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For the present, however, the new state was unconscious of its latent importance, The new-risen republic remained for a season nebulous, and ready to unsphere itself so soon as the relative attraction of other great powers should determine its absorption.
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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For the present, however, the new state was unconscious of its latent importance, The new-risen republic remained for a season nebulous, and ready to unsphere itself so soon as the relative attraction of other great powers should determine its absorption.
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845
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For the present, however, the new state was unconscious of its latent importance, The new-risen republic remained for a season nebulous, and ready to unsphere itself so soon as the relative attraction of other great powers should determine its absorption.
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1584 John Lothrop Motley 1845
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For the present, however, the new state was unconscious of its latent importance, The new-risen republic remained for a season nebulous, and ready to unsphere itself so soon as the relative attraction of other great powers should determine its absorption.
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-86) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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