v. [UN-2 5.] trans. To disentomb. Also fig.
1594. Zepheria, i. All in the humble accent of my Muse,… My grieues I here vntoombe. Sweete, them peruse.
1614. Gorges, Lucan, VI. 243. The babe within the mothers wombe With gashing wound she will vntombe.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., VII. xviii. 382. The wonderfull corps of Antæus untombed a thousand years after his death by Sertorius.
1712. T. Staveley, Hist. Churches, 271. Being advised once to untomb the bones of an enemy.
1840. Thackeray, Paris Sk.-bk. (ed. 2), II. 229. The fair Rachel has been trying to revive this genre and to untomb Racine.
