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▪ I. unˈknit, v.
[OE. uncnyttan (un-2 4 b).]
1. trans. To untie or undo (a knot or something tied).
c1000Ags. Gosp. Luke iii. 16 Þæs ic ne eom wyrþe þæt ic hys sceo-þwancg uncnytte. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 137 Ich nam noht ne forðen wurðe þat ich un-cnutte his sho þuong. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) II. 43 So þat þe more wynd he wol haue, he wil vnknette þe mo knottes. c1430Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 7091 Hir kerchef lift vp wold he Hir visage there forto see; Tho thoght he hir kerchefe to vnknyt. 1530Palsgr. 768/1 Unknyt my gyrdell, I praye you. 1547in Leland's Collect. (1774) IV. 321 Then tooke he the said Rope, and..tyed himselfe by the Right Legg,..and after..unknet the Knot, and came downe again. 1615G. Sandys Trav. 66 Tying on her silken buskins with knots easily not vnknit. 1675Hobbes Odyssey (1677) 147 Binde me you must upright, both hand and foot, And so as I may not the knot unknit.
b. In figurative contexts (with knot or bond).
a1225Leg. Kath. 1150 Ich habbe uncnut summe of þeos cnotti cnotten. c1374Chaucer Boeth. v. pr. iii. (1868) 154 Þat som men wenen þat þei mowen assoilen & vnknytten þe knot of þis questioun. 1387–8T. Usk Test. Love iii. vi. (Skeat) l. 129 Thilke falsheed..hath unknit the bond of understanding reson bytwene wil and the herte. c1407Lydg. Reson & Sens. 3202 Wher so as her [sc. Venus's] sort was set, The knot never was vnknet. c1430Life St. Kath. (1884) 44, I haue spoused me to hym in a bonde þat neuer schal be vnknytte. 1561Norton & Sackv. Gorboduc iv. ii, Whan thus I sawe the knot of loue unknitte. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, v. i. 15 Will you againe vnknit This churlish knot of all⁓abhorred Warre? 1850W. R. Williams Religious Progress iv. (1854) 82 Demoralization that unknits the bonds of obligation.
†c. To ungird (oneself). Obs.—1
a1500in Three 15th Cent. Chron. (Camden) 111 Ther he shall unknyte hym, and his swerde..shall offer to God and to Holy Churche moste devowtly.
d. To disjoint, disunite; to unclasp. rare.
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong s.v. Desnouer, To vnknitte a bone, to put out of ioynte. 1582Stanyhurst æneis ii. (Arb.) 58 Thee ioyncturs vnknit, with an horribil hurring Pat fals thee turret. 1726Leoni Alberti's Archit. I. 15 Rain..loosens and unknits all the Nerves of the Building. 1856Ruskin Mod. Paint. III. iv. xviii. Concl. 339 If again petty jealousies..prevail to unknit their hands from the armoured grasp.
e. To smooth out. rare—1.
1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. v. ii. 136 Fie, fie, vnknit that threatning vnkinde brow.
2. fig.
a. To disperse, dissolve, undo, destroy; to relax or weaken. Also absol.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xviii. 213 So god..suffred to be solde to see þe sorwe of deyinge, The which vnknitteth al kare & comsynge is of reste. c1412Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 2564 Al-thogh a kyng haue habundance of myght In his land, at his lust knytte & vnknytte. a1500Ragman Roll 151 in Hazl. E.P.P. I. 76 Weyr he unknytte, al this worldes rychesse Ne myghte noghte yow two knyttyn in feir. 1551T. Wilson Logike 3 Logike is bound..to knit true arguments and unknit false. 1592Lyly Gallathea iii. i, I feele my thoughts vnknit. 1642Chas. I Let. to both Ho. Parl. 7 Ambitious spirits, that may disjoynt and unknit his Majesty and this House. 1655Vaughan Silex Scint., Match ii, Shut out all distractions That may unknit My heart. c1837Wordsw. ‘Ah why’ 5 Where for ages they have lain..With life's best sinews more and more unknit.
b. To separate, sever, detach.
1388Wyclif Job vi. 17 Thei schulen be vnknyt fro her place. a1395Hylton Scala Perf. i. xii. (MS. Bodl. 592), Þis spirit wole vnknytte and vndo ih'u fro þe soule: & þerfore it is not of god. c1412Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 1658 Þanne is to hem an helle hire mariage, Þanne þei desyren for to be vnknyt.
3. intr. To become unknit, in various senses.
1574Hellowes Gueuara's Fam. Ep. (1577) 187 It is a sore that neuer openeth, and a bonde that neuer vnknitteth. 1609C. Butler Fem. Mon. v. F 3 b, Then may you bid them farewel: for presentlie they begin to vnknit, and to be gone. 1677Gov. Venice 6 The private Magistrates are as it were the Nerves and Bones..; and the Council of Ten are the ligaments, hindring the parts from unknitting. 1748Thomson Cast. Indol. i. xxiii. For whomsoe'er the villain takes in hand, Their joints unknit, their sinews melt apace. 1870Pall Mall G. 10 Dec. 12 The lady's eyebrows unknit, and wintry smiles break from the grey eyes.
Hence unˈknitting vbl. n.
1382Wyclif Nahum ii. 10 Herte feylynge, and vnknytynge of smale knees. 1545Act 37 Hen. VIII, c. 21 §2 Without any dissolucion, undoinge, unknittinge, or repeale of them. 1611Cotgr., Desnouement, an vntying, vnknitting, vnbinding (of knots).
▪ II. unˈknit, ppl. a.
[un-1 8 b.]
Not knit together or closely united.
1607Markham Cavel. i. xviii. 73 His ioynts being tender and vnknit. a1625Fletcher Fair Maid of Inn iii. i, The petty brawls..shall, like tender unknit joynts, Fasten again together of themselves. 1809–14Wordsw. Excurs. iii. 914 Let us..Leave this unknit Republic to the scourge Of her own passions. 1860Motley Netherl. vii. (1868) I. 465 A loose, disordered and unknit state needs no shaking, but propping. |
