unvisard
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unvisard (third-person singular simple present unvisards, present participle unvisarding, simple past and past participle unvisarded)
- (obsolete) To take the vizard or mask from; to unmask.
- 1641, John Milton, Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC:
- O what a death it is to the prelates to be thus unvisarded , thus uncased , to have the periwigs plucked off that cover your baldness , your inside nakedness