untongue

English

Etymology

un- +‎ tongue

Verb

untongue (third-person singular simple present untongues, present participle untonguing, simple past and past participle untongued)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To deprive of a tongue, or of voice.
   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC:

     Especially he ought to untongue it from talking to his prejudice

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “untongue”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)