untreasure

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Etymology edit

Verb edit

untreasure (third-person singular simple present untreasures, present participle untreasuring, simple past and past participle untreasured)

(transitive, obsolete, poetic) To despoil of treasure.
- 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
  When Cluffe […] returned to the drawing-room, […] he was a good deal chagrined to find the drawing-room 'untreasured of its mistress.'
(transitive, obsolete, poetic) To display or set forth.
- J. Mitford
  the quaintness with which he untreasured, as by rote, the stores of his memory
- 1916, Austin Dobson, A Madrigal:
  Before me, careless lying,
  Young Love his ware comes crying
  Full soon the elf untreasures
  His pack of pains and pleasures.

References edit

“untreasure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.