The Collaborative International Dictionary
To unsheathe the sword
Unsheathe \Un*sheathe"\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + sheath.] To deprive of a sheath; to draw from the sheath or scabbard, as a sword.
To unsheathe the sword, to make war.
Usage examples of "to unsheathe the sword".
After this declaration, Constantine, the first of the Greeks in spirit as in rank, ^14 had determined to unsheathe the sword, and to resist the approach and establishment of the Turks on the Bosphorus.