v. [UN-2 5.] trans. To remove from or as from a center. Also refl.
1625. T. Adams, Serm., Wks. (1629), 944. Let the heart be vncentred from Christ, it is dead.
1642. H. More, Song of Soul, III. 3. For then we fell,… Uncentring our selves from our great stay.
1693. Norris, Pract. Disc. (1711), III. 195. To find herself loosen’d and uncenter’d from the Creature, and not lodg’d upon God.
1788. Wesley, Wks. (1872), VI. 447. Whatever uncentres the mind from God does properly dissipate us.
1922. W. L. Comfort, in Broadcast, I. Oct., 23. The mystic moves and speaks in abundant poise, with unerring accuracy, for there is nothing about him now that confuses, uncenters or draws him out.
Hence Uncentering, Uncentring vbl. sb.
1669. Address to Hopeful Young Gentry England, Ep. Ded. A 2b. His vanity to promise the uncentring of that vast Body and unweildy.
1905. D. J. Snider, Feeling, 168. This is the uncentering of the self-centered or self-conscious Ego, its self-division into its own primordial atoms, which can only produce the destruction of personal identity.
