Unseal
[ʌn'siːl] or [ʌn'sil]
Definition
(v. t.) To break or remove the seal of; to open, as what is sealed; as, to unseal a letter.
(v. t.) To disclose, as a secret.
Edited by Constantine
Definition
v.t. to remove the seal of: to open what is sealed.—adj. Unsealed′.
Editor: Stu
Examples
- One was in a strong masculine hand and was unsealed. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Then he went to the desk and took up the unsealed letter addressed to Tarzan. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Thinking me alone, she had brought in her hand the letter just written--brought it folded but unsealed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He realised that there were great mysteries to be unsealed, sensual, mindless, dreadful mysteries, far beyond the phallic cult. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- In 1845 August King patented, in England, an incandescent lamp, having an unsealed platinum burner, and also a carbon in a vacuum. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Here is some mistake, said I, presenting him the unsealed and unfolded letter of Lord Sligo. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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