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To deprive of the bark; to decorticate; to strip; as, to unbark a tree. Bacon.

To deprive of existence. Dryden.

To deprive, as a city, of a bishop; to deprive, as a clergyman, of episcopal dignity or rights. [R.] "Then he unbishops himself." Milton.

To deprive of blessings; to make wretched. [Obs.] Shak.

To deprive of bones, as meat; to bone.

Deprived of a bottom.

To deprive of the entrails; to disembowel. Dr. H. More.

To deprive of canonical authority.

To deprive of the character, privileges, and authority of a church. South.

To deprive of the rank or rights of a city. [Obs.]

To remove a cloak or cover from; to deprive of a cloak or cover; to unmask; to reveal.

To deprive of its cocked shape, as a hat, etc.

To deprive of the coif or cap. Young.

To render not sacred; to deprive of sanctity; to desecrate. [Obs.] South.

To divest or deprive of a cowl. Pope.

To deprive of existence; to annihilate. Who can uncreate thee, thou shalt know. Milton.

Deprived of existence; annihilated. Beau. & Fl.

To deprive of a crown; to take the crown from; hence, to discrown; to dethrone. He hath done me wrong, And therefore I'll uncrown him ere't be long. Shak.

To degrade from the state of deity; to deprive of the character or qualities of a god; to deprive of the reverence due to a god. Addison.

. Jonson. The broker who procures the insurance ought not, by underwriting the policy, to deprive the parties of his unbiased testimony. Marshall.