unvisor

Verb

unvisor (third-person singular simple present unvisors, present participle unvisoring, simple past and past participle unvisored)

1. To remove or lift a visor from one's face.
   • The Prior with his silvery locks at the high altar stands ; The Prince in reverend posture bends, ungauntleted his hands ; And doffed the sword of Ravenspur, unvisored too his brow, The warrior of a hundred fields a lowly votary now !1889, William Wheater, Some Historic Mansions of Yorkshire and Their Associations
   • How he would have smitten Paynim with his sword, and then unvisored and held chivalrous interview with Saladin!1920, Popular Educator - Volume 38, page 444
2. (broadly) To reveal; to unmask or unveil.
   • His intrepid good sense confronts and unvisors a sophism, by whose authority soever it may be armed.1883, Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine - Volume 106, page 954
   • It was as if we had taken off something that had hindered our view of each other, like people who unvisored to talk more easily at a masked ball.1911, The Forum - Volume 45, page 506