OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 55556

untune

Meanings (ES + gloss)
destemplar
To cause (something) to be out of tune; to make incapable of harmony, or of harmonious action.
How could communities, […] / Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels, / But by degree, stand in authentic place? / Take but degree away, untune that string, / And, hark, what…
[…] do we not see in most collections that much time disunites, untunes, blackens, and by degrees destroys even the best preserved pictures.
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