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English
Etymology
From un- + treasure.
Verb
untreasure (third-person singular simple present untreasures, present participle untreasuring, simple past and past participle untreasured)
- (transitive, obsolete, poetic) To despoil of treasure.
1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:When Cluffe […] returned to the drawing-room, […] he was a good deal chagrined to find the drawing-room 'untreasured of its mistress.'
- (transitive, obsolete, poetic) To display or set forth.
- J. Mitford
- the quaintness with which he untreasured, as by rote, the stores of his memory
1916, Austin Dobson, A Madrigal:Before me, careless lying,
Young Love his ware comes crying
Full soon the elf untreasures
His pack of pains and pleasures.
References
“untreasure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.