Meanings
verbunseel (third-person singular simple present unseels, present participle unseeling, simple past and past participle unseeled)
present singular third person unseels · participle present unseeling · participle past unseeled · past unseeled
- broadlyfigurativelyobsoleteTo give light to; to enlighten.
Are your eyes yet unseel'd
1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)
Origin
- Proto-Germanic*unsēliz
- Old Englishunsǣle
- Middle Englishunsele
- Englishunseel
From Middle English unsele, from Old English unsǣle, from Proto-Germanic *unsēliz, from *un- + *sēliz, equivalent to un- + seel.
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APA
unseel. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unseel
MLA
“unseel.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unseel. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unseel,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unseel.
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