v. [UN-2 4.] trans. To take the edge off; to blunt. Also fig.
a. 1614. Fletcher, Valentinian, I. iii. Here our weapons And bodies … Are both unedg’d and old with ease and women.
1638. Mayne, Lucian (1664), 71. Least despaire should lessen their flame, or unedge their desires.
1718. D’Urfey, Grecian Heroine, V. i. About good Kings, I grant there is a … sacred Virtue That would unedge the Sword of Treachery.
