v. [UN-2 5.] trans. To remove from, cast out of, a shrine. Also fig.
1599. Life Sir T. More, in Wordsw., Eccl. Biog. (1853), II. 181. We have of late unshrined him [sc. Thomas of Canterbury].
1609. Holland, Amm. Marcell., 230. The image of Apollo Chomeus being displaced, unshrined, and brought to Rome.
1652. Benlowes, Theoph., VII. xvii. Could’st thou…, from each golden cell, unshrine Those beams.
1807. J. Barlow, Columb., IX. 612. Descartes … Unshrines old errors and propounds his own.
1827. Carlyle, Germ. Rom., I. 5. Musäus grasped his satirical hammer; and with lusty strokes, defaced and unshrined the false divinity.
