unsphere

[ uhn-sfeer ]

verb (used with object)

, un·sphered, un·spher·ing.

1. to remove from its or one's sphere; displace.

unsphere

/ ʌnˈsfɪə /

verb

1. poetic.
   tr to remove from its, one's, etc, sphere or place

Word History and Origins

Origin of unsphere¹

First recorded in 1605–15; un- ² + sphere

Example Sentences

Unsphere, un-sfēr′, v.t. to take out of its sphere.

From Project Gutenberg

But see him really awake at 10 P. M. while our blithe lark is in hopeless coma over his books, from which it is hard to rouse him sufficiently to get his boots off for bed, our lean owl-friend, Saturn no longer in the ascendant, with bright eyes and cheery face, is ready for four hours of anything you wish—deep study, or Heart affluence in discoursive talk, and by 2 A. M. he will undertake to unsphere the spirit of Plato.

From Project Gutenberg

It would answer the purpose of a skilful literary enchanter to "unsphere the spirit of Plato," or that of Pythagoras, Aristotle, or any other distinguished sage of antiquity, and send it out on its rambles with a commission to take, and report, its views of things in general.

From Project Gutenberg

What pains have been taken to cater trifling scandal for the blind, heartless, gossip-loving vulgar! and to throw round the memory of a woman, whose private life was as irreproachable as her public career was glorious, some ridiculous or unamiable association which should tend to unsphere her from her throne in our imagination, and degrade from her towering pride of place, the heroine of Shakspeare, and the Muse of Tragedy!

From Project Gutenberg

Is not that face the Sphinx, Whose timeless and intemperable meaning No man has read in desert, star, or sea, But which must be the secret I unsphere?

From Project Gutenberg