disembalm

English

Etymology

dis- +‎ embalm

Verb

disembalm (third-person singular simple present disembalms, present participle disembalming, simple past and past participle disembalmed)

1. (transitive) Hypothetically, to undo the embalming of.
   • 1879, Thomas Gordon Hake, Legends of the Morrow, page 8:

     Her thoughts perturb the broken urn / And seem the bones to disembalm: / She sifts the dust of days gone by; / Troubling the old eternity.

   • 1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

     […] the disembalming and unbandaging of all literary mummies […]