v. [UN-2 3.] trans. To make unreal; to deprive of reality.
1804. Southey, Lett., in Life (1850), II. 259. The least breath stirring would have shaken the whole vision, and at once unrealised it.
1854. H. Miller, Sch. & Schm., xv. 331. The painted canvass, and the … too palpable acting, served but to unrealize what I saw, and to remind me that I was merely in a theatre.
1875. Lowell, Spenser, Prose Wks. 1890, IV. 337. His fancy, habitually moving about in worlds not realized, unrealizes everything at a touch.
Hence Unrealizer; Unrealizing ppl. a.
1814. Southey, Roderick, X. 60. The flame … cast upon the leaves A floating, grey, unrealizing gleam.
1845. Mozley, Ess. (1878), II. 127. How little do we feel the past! On flows Time, the great unrealiser.
a. 1859. De Quincey, Posth. Wks. (1893), II. 204. This postulate of fiction … would have operated with an unrealizing effect upon all that followed.
