Dis'in-têr', v. t.

v. t. [imp. & p. p. DISINTERRĒD; p. pr. & vb. n. DISINTERRING.] [Prefix dis and inter, q. v.]

1. To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up.
2. To bring out, as from a grave or hiding-place; to bring from obscurity into view.

The philosopher . . . may be concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred. Addison.