v. (UN-2 5.) Hence Unpedestalled ppl. a.
1821. Tales Landlord, Witch of Glas Llyn, II. 38. Force me not to unpedestal you from the proud height to which my adoring fancy has raised you.
1839. Lady Lytton, Cheveley (ed. 2), I. xii. 278. He did not think … there was any danger of George Sand’s un-pedestaling the … Despinasses of the olden time.
1881. T. Hardy, Laodicean, II. iii. His well-curved youthful form looked like an unpedestaled Dionysus.
