v. [UN-2 5.] trans. To let or take out of a cage. Also fig.

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1620.  Shelton, Quix., II. xxxviii. 250. But pray vnange your griefes, and tell them us.

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1659.  Torriano, Sgabbiare, to uncage, to let loose.

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1660.  Kath. Philips, Poems (1664), 27. Thou wert all Soul, and through thy Eyes it shin’d: Asham’d and angry to be so confin’d, It long’d to be uncag’d.

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1837.  W. A. Butler, Serm., Ser. II. xxii. (1856), 326. The aged saint,… turning round, bade them uncage the lions.

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1855.  [J. R. Leifchild], Cornwall, 167. Let Imagination have her flight, uncage her, and sit down on the top of this smooth bank.

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  Hence Uncaged ppl. a.1

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1647.  Fanshawe, Poems, Virgil’s Æneas, 296. This said, cut off her hayre, Heat left her, and th’ uncaged Soule flew through the Ayre.

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1873.  J. M. Washburn, Reason vs. the Sword, iv. 358. If it humbled haughty pride, it aroused the wounded lion of uncaged passion.

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