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English
Etymology
From un- + riddle.
Verb
unriddle (third-person singular simple present unriddles, present participle unriddling, simple past and past participle unriddled) (transitive)
- To figure out the answer to (a riddle).
- (by extension) To solve (a perplexing problem).
1702, , An Essay wherein National Love and Unity is Recommended, Its Opposits Exposed, Arguments for It Propounded, and Its Standard Expounded, and All Contenders Blamed. , Edinburgh: Printed by the heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson, , →OCLC, page 22:It vvill be found, vvhen the Myſterie of iniquitie ſhall be unriddled, that, as they vvere their ſpavvn the Anabaptiſts, the obſtructers of our Doctrinal Reformation, ſo, they are by their Miſſionaries ſent unto Corners and Hillie Countreys the obſtructers of our practical.
1710 December 11 (Gregorian calendar), Isaac Bickerstaff , “Thursday, November 30, 1710”, in The Tatler, number 257; republished in , editor, The Tatler, , London stereotype edition, volume III, London: I. Walker and Co.; , 1822, →OCLC, page 356:On the right hand of Popery sat Judaism, represented by an old man embroidered with phylacteries, and distinguished by many typical figures, which I had not skill enough to unriddle.
1749, Henry Fielding, “In which More of the Talents of Mr. Benjamin will Appear, as well as Who this Extraordinary Person was”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume III, London: A Millar, , →OCLC, book VIII, page 186:'I your Enemy, Sir!' ſays he, vvith much Amazement, and ſome Sternneſs in his Look. 'Nay, be not angry,' ſaid Benjamin, 'for I promiſe you I am not. You are perfectly innocent of having intended me any VVrong; for you vvas then an Infant; but I ſhall, I believe, unriddle all this the Moment I mention my Name. Did you never hear, Sir, of one Partridge, vvho had the honour of being reputed your Father, and the Misfortune of being ruined by that Honour?'