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To deprive of power; to divest of strength. H. Bushnell.

To disable; to disqualify. The sight of it might damp me and disenable me to speak. State Trials (1640).

To free from the captivity of love. Shelton.

Freed from restraint; unrestrained. [Archaic] E. A. Poe.

ascination or delusion. Haste to thy work; a noble stroke or two Ends all the charms, and disenchants the grove. Dryden.

One who, or that which, disenchants.

The act of disenchanting, or state of being disenchanted. Shelton.

To free from the influence of a charm or spell; to disenchant. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

See Disinclose.

Discouragement. [Obs.] Spectator.

To decrease. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To free from encumbrance, or from anything which clogs, impedes, or obstructs; to disburden. Owen. I have disencumbered myself from rhyme. Dryden.

Freedom or deliverance from encumbrance, or anything burdensome or troublesome. Spectator.

To deprive of an endowment, as a church. Gladstone.

The act of depriving of an endowment or endowments. [The] disendowment of the Irish Church. G. B. Smith.

To disfranchise; to deprive of the rights of a citizen. -- Dis`en*fran"chise*ment, n.

volved, or entangled; to extricate; to detach; to set free; to liberate; to clear; as, to disengage one from a party, from broils and controversies, from an oath, promise, or occupation; to disengage the affections a favorite pursuit, the mind from study. To disengage him and the kingdom, great sums were to be borrowed…

Not engaged; free from engagement; at leisure; free from occupation or care; vacant. -- Dis`en*ga"ged*ness, n.

The act of disengaging or setting free, or the state of being disengaged. It is easy to render this disengagement of caloric and light evident to the senses. Transl. of Lavoisier. A disengagement from earthly trammels. Sir W. Jones.

Loosing; setting free; detaching. Disengaging machinery. See under Engaging.