unˈtenant, v.
[un-2 4, 5.]
1. trans. To dislodge from a dwelling.
| 1614 T. Adams Devils Banquet 104 Hee gets possession of their affections, whence all the power of man cannot vntenant him. |
2. To deprive of a tenant or tenants.
| 1640 Shirley St. Patrick for Irel. i. i, You know I can Untenant hell, dispeople the wide air. 1796 Coleridge Destiny of Nations 35 All Those blind Omniscients, those Almighty Slaves Untenanting creation of its God. 1799 Monthly Rev. XXVIII. 528 It is only wonderful that the official cadastres should not wholly have untenanted the soil. 1832 R. Chambers Eminent Scotsmen I. 46 The Reformation untenanted its walls. 1846 M'Gee Irish Writers 30 Dempster..began to untenant every niche in the national temple of Ireland. 1861 Ld. Lytton & Fane Tannhäuser 67, I, whose heart of all that lived in it He hath untenanted. |
3. To depart from, to quit.
| 1795 Coleridge Lines at Shurton Bars iv, Untenanting its beauteous clay My Sara's soul has wing'd its way. |