disinter

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

DISINTER, verb transitive [dis and inter.] 1. To take out of a grave, or out of the earth; as, to disinter a dead body that is buried. 2. To take out as from a grave; to bring from obscurity into view. The philosopher--may be concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred. [Unusual.]
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