undevil

present singular third person undevils · US participle present undeviling · UK participle present undevilling · US participle past undeviled · US past undeviled · UK participle past undevilled · UK past undevilled

1. archaictransitiveTo free from possession by a devil or evil spirit; to exorcise or to make less devilish.

   The boy having gotten a habit of counterfeiting […] would not be undevilled by all their exorcisms.

   1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI)

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   [...] for the following day, the flowers were watered a quarter of an hour earlier than usual, and the bulfinch was allowed to perch on her finger and chirruped to, with a degree of innocent tenderness that would have undeviled Mephistophiles.

   1841, Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances), Cecil

   It is hardly more wondrous to undevil a man than it is to restore reason, at a word, to the brain-distracted, the ravening, frenzied bedlamite — the re-enthronement of a mind lost in the darkness of shattered intellect.

   1893, Thomas De Witt Talmage, From Manger to Throne