unnatureとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

unnature (三人称単数 現在形 unnatures, 現在分詞 unnaturing, 過去形および過去分詞形 unnatured)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To change the nature of; to invest with a different or contrary nature.
   • 1590, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the page number)”, in Fulke Greville, Matthew Gwinne, and John Florio, editors, The Covntesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] William Ponsonbie, OCLC 801077108; republished in Albert Feuillerat, editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (Cambridge English Classics: The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; I), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1912, OCLC 318419127:

     A right heavenly nature, indeed, as it were unnaturing them, doth so bridle them [the elements].