unˈpraise, v.
[un-2 3.]
trans. To dispraise.
| c 1375 Cursor M. 27585 (Fairf.), We agh ilkman our-self vpraise & in our hert vs vnpraise [Cott. dispraise]. a 1500 Praise of Women in Rel. Ant. I. 275 To onpreyse womene, yt were a shame. 1728 Young Love Fame vii. 45 Cannot thrice ten hundred years unpraise The boist'rous boy, and blast his guilty bays? 1729 Savage Wanderer i. 345 Shou'd some nobler Bard their Worth unpraise, Deserting Morals, that adorn his Lays. |