v. [UN-2 3.]
† 1. trans. To distress, trouble. Obs.–1
c. 1250. Gen. & Ex., 1213. Wintres forð-wexen on ysaac, And ysmael was him vn-swac; Often it gan ysaac un-framen.
2. To take to pieces; to destroy. Also fig.
a. 1548. Hall, Chron. Hen. V., 46. All the bridges wer by his enemies broken and unframed.
1603. J. Davies (Heref.), Microcosmos, Wks. (Grosart), I. 83/2. The Pynns, the Tenons, Beams, Bolts,… All which they marke when they doe it vnframe.
1621. Sanderson, Serm., I. 179. The curse of God … gnaweth asunder the pins and the joynts of the building, till it have unframed it, and resolved it into a ruinous heap.
a. 1716. South, Serm. (1744), VII. v. 129. Sin has unframed the fabrick of the whole man.
† b. To undo. Obs.
1567. Turberv., Epit., etc., 82 b. Those two agreed with common voyce my bondage to vnframe.
3. To dislocate; to throw into confusion or disorder, to distract.
1574. Hellowes, Gueuara’s Fam. Ep. (1584), 109. You are much offended by manie slaunderers that deprave your doings, and unframe your attempts.
1603. J. Davies (Heref.), Microcosmos, Wks. (Grosart), I. 55/1. Disastrous Richard second of that name,… Who did the forme of this State quite vnframe.
1668. Owen, Mortif. Sin, ii. (ed. 3), 14. It unframes our Spirit; and thence is called the sin that so easily besets us.
1727. [Dorrington], Philip Quarll, 87. This unexpected but lucky Adventure, like a sudden Surprize, unfram’d his Reason.
