unlord
English
Etymology
Verb
unlord (third-person singular simple present unlords, present participle unlording, simple past and past participle unlorded)
- To remove from the rank or position of lord.
- 1649, J[ohn] Milton, chapter VI, in ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC, page 52:
- The worſt and ſtrangeſt of that Any thing which the people then demanded, was but the unlording of Biſhops, and expelling them the Houſe, and the reducing of the Church-Diſcipline to a conformity with other Proteſtant Churches
References
- “unlord”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.