untreasure

English

Etymology

un- +‎ treasure

Verb

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

1. (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.'

2. (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

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