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DISFIGURER n.
One who disfigures.
DISFLESH v.
To reduce the flesh or obesity of. [Obs.] Shelton.
DISFOREST v. 2 definitions
To disafforest. Fuller.
DISFORESTATION n.
The act of clearing land of forests. Daniel.
DISFORMITY n.
Discordance or diversity of form; unlikeness in form. Uniformity or disformity in comparing together the respective figures of bodies. S. Clarke.
DISFRANCHISE v.
To deprive of a franchise or chartered right; to dispossess of the rights of a citizen, or of a particular privilege, as of voting, holding office, etc. Sir William Fitzwilliam was disfranchised. Fabyan (1509). He was partially disfranchised so as to be made incapable of taking part in public affairs. Thirlwall.…
DISFRANCHISEMENT n.
The act of disfranchising, or the state disfranchised; deprivation of privileges of citizenship or of chartered immunities. Sentenced first to dismission from the court, and then to disfranchisement and expulsion from the colony. Palfrey.
DISFRIAR v.
To depose or withdraw from the condition of a friar. [Obs.] Many did quickly unnun and disfriar themselves. Fuller.
DISFROCK v.
To unfrock.
DISFURNISH v.
iture, equipments, etc.); to strip; to render destitute; to divest. I am a thing obscure, disfurnished of All merit, that can raise me higher. Massinger.
DISFURNISHMENT n.
The act of disfurnishing, or the state of being disfurnished. Daniel.
DISFURNITURE n. 2 definitions
The act of disfurnishing, or the state of being disfurnished. [Obs.]
DISGAGE v.
To free from a gage or pledge; to disengage. [Obs.] Holland.
DISGALLANT v.
To deprive of gallantry. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
DISGARLAND v.
To strip of a garland. [Poetic] "Thy locks disgarland." Drummond.
DISGARNISH v.
To divest of garniture; to disfurnish; to dismantle. Bp. Hall.
DISGARRISON v.
To deprive of a garrison. Hewyt.
DISGAVEL v.
To deprive of that principal quality of gavelkind tenure by which lands descend equally among all the sons of the tenant; -- said of lands. Burrill.
DISGEST v.
To digest. [Obs.] Bacon.
DISGESTION n.
Digestion. [Obs.]
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