▪ I. unwrest
variant of unwrast a. Obs.
▪ II. † unˈwrest, v. Obs.
Also 5 pa. tense and pa. pple. vnwrast(e; 7 vnrest.
[un-2 9.]
trans. To undo, detach, or dislocate, by wresting or wrenching.
| c 1450 Lovelich Merlin 13942 The ȝate closed aȝen also faste as hit ne hadde neuere ben vnwraste. 1470–85 Malory Arthur viii. xxxiv. 326 Bothe his handes..were fast bounden vnto knyghtes;..sodenly he pulled them bothe to hym, and vnwrast his handes. 1509 Barclay Shyp of Folys 25 Haddest thou leuer se Thy sonnes necke vnwrested wyth a rope, Than [etc.]. 1598 Florio, Distorcere,..to wriggle, to wrest, to vnwrest. 1613 Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. ii. 139 Their occasions made them somewhat to vnrest [1617 unwrest] the Soueraigntie from that height whereunto hee had strayned it. |