unlord

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ lord.

Verb

unlord (third-person singular simple present unlords, present participle unlording, simple past and past participle unlorded)

1. To deprive of the rank or position of a lord.
   • 1649, J[ohn] Milton, chapter VI, in ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC, page 52:

     The worſt and ſtrangeſt of that Any thing which the people then demanded, was but the unlording of Biſhops, and expelling them the Houſe, and the reducing of the Church-Diſcipline to a conformity with other Proteſtant Churches

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “unlord”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)