unvisard

• unvizard

From un- +‎ visard.

• IPA^(key): /ʌnˈvɪzə(ɹ)d/

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unvisard (third-person singular simple present unvisards, present participle unvisarding, simple past and past participle unvisarded)

1. (obsolete) To take the vizard or mask from; to unmask.
   • 1641, [John Milton], Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus, London: […] [Richard Oulton and Gregory Dexter] for Thomas Vnderhill, […], →OCLC, page 7:

     Wee know where the ſhoo wrings you, you fret, and are gall’d at the quick, and O what a death it is to the Prelates to be thus un-viſarded, thus unca’sd,^[sic] to have the Periwigs pluk’t off that cover your baldneſſe, your inſide nakedneſſe thrown open to publick view.

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