unhill
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[edit]unhill (third-person singular simple present unhills, present participle unhilling, simple past and past participle unhilled)
- (obsolete) To uncover, reveal. [13th–17th c.]
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “iiij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XII:
- […] 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- (please add an English translation of this quotation)