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To deprive of arms; to take away the weapons of; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless. Security disarms the best-appointed army. Fuller. The proud was half disarmed of pride. Tennyson.

Deprived of arms.

To deprive of credit or authority; to discredit. [R.] W. Wotton.

To expel from the bar, or the legal profession; to deprive (an attorney, barrister, or counselor) of his status and privileges as such. Abbott.

To deprive (a bencher) of his privileges. Mozley & W.

To deprive of buds or shoots, as for training, or economizing the vital strength of a tree.

Deprived off shoes or sandals; unshod; discalced.

To deprive of capacity; to incapacitate. [R.]

To deprive of status as a church, or of membership in a church. Bp. Hall.

To destroy or disturb the comfort of; to deprive oas, a smoky chimney discomforts a family.

To deprive of a commission or trust. [R.] Laud.

To deprive of the right of common. [R.] Bp. Hall.

To deprive of consecration or sacredness. [R.]

To deprive if content; to make uneasy; to dissatisfy. Suckling.

One who deprives another of the possession of an estate by discontinuance. See Discontinuance, 2.

Deprived of the privileges or form of a body corporate. [Obs.] Jas. II.

To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject; -- the opposite of encourage; as, he was discouraged in his undertaking; he need not be discouraged from a like attempt. Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged. Col. iii. 21.…

To deprive of credibility; to destroy confidence or trust in; to cause disbelief in the accuracy or authority of. An occasion might be given to the . . . papists of discrediting our common English Bible. Strype.

To deprive of a crown. The end had crowned the work; it not unreasonably discrowned the workman. Motley.

To divest or deprive of deity or of a deific rank or condition. Feltham.