unhill

present singular third person unhills · participle present unhilling · participle past unhilled · past unhilled

1. obsoleteTo uncover, reveal.First known use 13th–17th c.

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   […]these four men and these ladyes layd hand on syr launcelot /[…]/ and soo in to a chamber where was the holy vessel of the Sancgreal / and by force syr launcelot was leid by that holy vessel / and there came an holy man and vnhylled that vessel / and soo by myracle and by vertu of that holy vessel syr launcelot was heled and recouerd […]these four men and these ladies laid hand on Sir Launcelot, […] and so into a chamber where was the holy vessel of the Sangreal, and by force Sir Launcelot was laid by that holy vessel; and there came an holy man and unhilled that vessel, and so by miracle and by virtue of that holy vessel Sir Launcelot was healed and recovered

   1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “iiij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XII