unglue

t. [Pref. un- (2), and Eng. glue, v.] 1. Lit.: To separate or loose, as anything that has been joined with glue or other tenacious substance. "Small rains relax and unglue the earth, to give vent to inflamed atoms."- Harvey : On the Plague . pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, IMG:content-0130.png:[blocks in formation] 4295 2. Licentious, wild, unbridled. "He desired riches with an ungovernable and insatiable desire." -Macaulay : Hist . Eng ., ch. vi. *ŭn-gov-ērn-a-ble-ne , s. [Eng. ungovern able ; -ne .] The quality or state of being ungovernable. ŭn-gov-ern-a-bly, adv . [Eng. ungovernab ( le ) ; -ly.] In an ungovernable manner; so as not to be capable of being governed or restrained. "Seyd's unglutted eye Would doom him ever dying-ne'er to die!" Byron: Corsair , ii. 8. *ŭn-god', v. t . [Pref. un- (2), and Eng. god . ] 1. To deprive of a god; to cause to recognize no Hist . Eng ., ch. xix. god; to make atheistical or godle . "Thus men ungodded may to places rise." Dryden: Hind and Panther , iii. 743. 2. To divest of the character of a god or divinity; to deprive of the divine attributes or qualities, real or supposed; to undeify. "Oh, were we waken'd to this tyranny Tungod this child again, it could not be I should love her." Donne Love s Deity. ŭn-god-like, a . [Pref. un- (1); Eng. god , and suff.- like .] Not like God, spec. in character. "The other ungodlike giants of our poetry."-Fortnightly Review, xxviii. 431. un-god-11-ly, adv. [Eng. ungodly; -ly.] In an ungodly manner; impiously, wickedly. ""Tis but an ill e ay of that godly fear, to use that very gospel so irreverently and ungodlily . " - Government of the Tongue.