[UN-2 4, 3.]
1. trans. (and refl.). To deprive of reason.
a. 1676. Hale, Prim. Orig. Man. (1677), 343. We shall have such Solutions as must make us first unreason and unman ourselves, before we can subscribe to them.
1755. Smollett, Quix., I. i. I. 2. The unreasonable usage … so unreasons my reason, that I have reason to complain of your beauty.
1829. T. Hook, Bank to Barnes, 40. Were I to tease on, It would nearly unreason your reason.
2. To disprove, refute.
1661. R. L’Estrange, State Divinity, 25. Their Reasons I have un-Reason’d already.
a. 1716. South, Serm. (1744), XI. 257. However a man may for a while … seem to himself to unreason the equity of God’s proceedings; yet [etc.].
