v. [UN-2 6 b and 4.] trans. To divest of the character of a soldier or soldiers.
1611. Florio, Dissoldato, vnsoldiered.
1776. S. J. Pratt, Pupil of Pleas., II. 53. A tender woman will … unsoldier the boldest of us. Ibid. (1780), Emma Corbett (ed. 4), II. 67. Death sometimes comes at the bottom of the account to unsoldier a man.
1791. Mackintosh, Vind. Gallicæ, 286. Two grand operations conduct to it—arming the people, and unsoldiering the army.
