From DR. BOLI’S UNABRIDGED DICTIONARY.

Unmoor (verb).—1. To remove the heath and similar growths from a wasteland, transforming it to a desert or parking lot or some such phenomenon.—2. To exchange one’s Moorish nationality for some other nationality, such as Maltese, Algerian, or Episcopalian.

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  1. von Hindenburg says:
    April 28, 2025 at 10:59 am

    Interestingly, St. Benedict’s name is becoming increasingly un-moored. While the Hill District church (and most similar ones) still retains its historic name, more trendy and inexpensively changed forms of Catholic media are more often referring to him as ‘St. Benedict the African’.

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    • Dr. Boli says:
      April 28, 2025 at 11:25 am

      Many people of African ancestry treasure the name “Moor”; see, for example, the Moorish Science Temple. However, suburbanites and university types who study people of African ancestry without actually knowing any may be disturbed by the word. It is true that it causes needless confusion between North African and Sub-Saharan African, but then in a “catholic” church where race and nationality are supposed to be profoundly uninteresting, worrying about that confusion is itself unnecessary.

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  2. Maypo says:
    April 28, 2025 at 12:10 pm

    3. To remove oneself from reality, e g. “History is not funny!”

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