1837, M. Seoane, Henry Neuman, Giuseppe Baretti, Neuman and Baretti’s Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages[…], 5th edition, volume 1, page 294:
Desatár, va. 1. To untie, to loose, to loosen or to unbind any thing fastened, to abstringe, to separate, to detach.
[…] And squaring off for the work, the student asked the practical man to please bear in mind and translate, when he had done, the few simple sentences following: - "Approach, adorers at Alliteration's altar. Assemble abdals and abderian adepts, […] adjuvants and anamnestic adhibitions at abstringing and ablaqueating all abstruse anfacuosities […]
1900 May 12, “A Dictionary Journey”, in The Inglenook, volume 2, number 19, page 6:
By this time the fire by which you are sitting may have become rather excessively heating, or for some other reason of comfort you determine to unloosen your collar. In the language of the Ab’s, however, you will abstringe it, the word meaning exactly unbind or unloosen. That is one of the charms of the dictionary journeys—every little while you will discover a new word that means the same as words that you use continually.
Argument with such a man would be cass. His tongue will never be abstringed, and the more effectuous man would find it an acclivitous task to continue persuading him. He might limbeck his brain in vain; he would simply be nytelling, and his longanimity would be useless.
1911, “The Mother Tongue”, in The Scone Advocate (NSW, Australia), page 5:
The very mention of the subject is sufficient to make some people froppish. Argument with such a man would be cass. His tongue will never be abstringed, and the more effectuous man would find it an acclivitous task to continue persuading him.
