v. [UN-2 4 and 6 b.]
1. To deprive of children; to make childless.
1605. Earl Stirling, Alexandr. Trag., IV. ii. First orphan’d, widdow’d, and vnchilded last, A daughter, wife, and mother all accurst.
1607. Shaks., Cor., V. vi. 153. Though in this City hee Hath widdowed and vnchilded many a one.
1791. Cowper, Iliad, XXII. 48. He hath unchilded me of many a son.
2. To deprive of the status of a child or of the qualities peculiar to childhood.
1615. Bp. Hall, Contempl., O. T., X. iii. Whosoever now dispose of themselves without their parents, they do wilfully unchild themselves.
1864. Browning, Mr. Sludge, Wks. 1888, VII. 230. In brief, she may unchild the child I am.
