v. [UN-2 3, 4.]
† 1. trans. To deprive of life. Obs.
1593. Shaks., Lucr., 1754. If in the child the father’s image lies, Where shall I live now Lucrece is unlived?
c. 1600[?]. Chalkhill, Thealma & Cl., 131. Happy had it been, if my stern fate Had … un-liv’d me then.
1621. Quarles, Div. Poems, Esther, Introd. These braue Ioynt-tenants that suruiu’d To see a little world of men vnliu’d.
1635. [Glapthorne], Lady Mother, V. ii., in Bullen, O. Pl. (1883), II. 188. But … suppose he did unlive Thurston in faire duell?
1702. Burlesque Lestrange’s Quevedo, 244. A Plot that may himself unlive.
2. To reverse, undo, or annul (past life or experience.)
1614. Bp. Hall, Char. Virtues & Vices, I. 249. As if he desired to vnliue his youth.
1661. Glanvill, Van. Dogm., 72. We must unlive our former lives.
1688. Norris, Love, II. i. 68. To unravel the prejudices of our youth, and … unlive our former life.
a. 1716. South, Serm. (1744), VII. v. 92. Many entertain principles which they defy by their practices, and unlive all that they have believed.
1850. S. Dobell, Roman, vii. Years are unlived!
1879. Churchman, I. 16. Not in our power is it to unlive the past.
Hence Unliving vbl. sb.
1599. Nashe, Lenten Stuffe, K iv b. Nor liuest thou [= a herring] by the vnlyuing or euiscerating of others, as most fishes do.
