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.