[UN-2 3.] trans. To undo the creation of; to unmake. Also refl.
1633. Prynne, Histrio-m., 172. Is this a light, a despicable effeminacie, for men … thus purposely … to vnman, vnchristian, vncreate themselves?
1640. Habington, Edw. IV., 37. It was as easie for him to uncreate as to create a King.
1690. C. Nesse, O. & N. Test., I. 2. When we are once created in Christ, we can, indeed, do something to uncreate our selves.
1760–72. H. Brooke, Fool of Qual. (1809), III. 107. Could I have had my wish, creation would again have been uncreated.
1847. Bushnell, Chr. Nurt., viii. (1861), 209. One religion was creating and the other uncreating manhood.
1894. Fallen Angels, xxi. 112. God himself could not preserve the unfilial from suffering, save by uncreating them.
absol. a. 1634. Chapman & Shirley, Chabot, V. i. 89. With one breath they uncreate.
1651. Stanley, Poems, 74. Thus thy diviner Muse a power ’bove Fate May boast, that can both make and uncreate.
1744. Young, Nt. Th., VII. 1221. But tho’ you can deform, you can’t destroy; To curse, not uncreate, is all your pow’r.
