Disherit
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To disinherit. obsolete
"So there were in the countrey two knyȝtes that were bretheren and they were called two peryllous knyghtes the one knyghte hyght syre Edward of the reed castel the other syr Hue of the reed castel And these two bretheren had disheryted the lady of the roche of a Baronry of landes by their extorsion"
Example
More examples"So there were in the countrey two knyȝtes that were bretheren and they were called two peryllous knyghtes the one knyghte hyght syre Edward of the reed castel the other syr Hue of the reed castel And these two bretheren had disheryted the lady of the roche of a Baronry of landes by their extorsion"
Etymology
From Middle English disheriten, desheriten et al., from Old French desheriter, from Vulgar Latin *dishērētō, from Latin dis- + hērēditō.
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