unvisard
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[edit]unvisard (third-person singular simple present unvisards, present participle unvisarding, simple past and past participle unvisarded)
- (obsolete) To take the vizard or mask from; to unmask.
- 1641, [John Milton], Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus, London: […] [Richard Oulton and Gregory Dexter] for Thomas Vnderhill, […], →OCLC, page 7:
- Wee know where the ſhoo wrings you, you fret, and are gall’d at the quick, and O what a death it is to the Prelates to be thus un-viſarded, thus unca’sd,[sic] to have the Periwigs pluk’t off that cover your baldneſſe, your inſide nakedneſſe thrown open to publick view.