unˈvizard, v.
[un-2 4.]
trans. = unvisor v. Also absol. for refl.
| 1620 E. Blount Horæ Subs. 490 Whereas they that are more cunning in their trade, are hardly visible, if not vn⁓vizarded, which is my now endeuour to doe. 1642 Remonstr. Ch. Ireland 6 But others more fully unvizard themselves, professing, That they would have a King of their owne. 1655 Earl of Orrery Parthen. ii. v. 469 Merinzor..began lately so much to unvizard his designes, that [etc.]. 1911 H. G. Wells New Machiavelli iv. i. 388 People who unvizard to talk more easily at a masked ball. |
Hence unˈvizarding vbl. n.
| a 1628 F. Grevil Life Sidney (1652) 113 The unvizarding of this masked triplicity. |