unproselyte
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[edit]unproselyte (third-person singular simple present unproselytes, present participle unproselyting, simple past and past participle unproselyted)
- (transitive) To convert or recover from the state of a proselyte.
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
- it happily unproselyted some inclinable to his opinions
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “unproselyte”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)