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discommon, v.|dɪsˈkɒmən|
[f. dis- 7, 8 + common n. and a.: cf. also common v.]
†1. trans. To cut off from the membership of a community; spec.
a. to deprive of citizenship, disfranchise;
b. to exclude from church fellowship, excommunicate. Obs.
1478in Eng. Gilds (1870) 303 In opyn Court, the Mayer and baylleffes..declared the said persones nott discomened nor disfraunchesid. 1588Bp. Andrewes Ninety-six Sermons (1843) V. 41 Every man doeth what in him lieth to discommon communities. a1600Hooker Eccl. Pol. viii. Wks. 1845 II. 491 What though a man being severed by excommunication from the Church, be not thereby deprived of freedom in the city; nor being there discommoned, is thereby forthwith..excluded from the Church? 1650–3tr. Hales' Dissert. de Pace in Phenix (1708) II. 382 We also ought to know the causes why we discommon any of the Citizens in that..Commonwealth. a1655Vines Lord's Supp. (1677) 230 Ground to dis-common, or dis-franchize a reputed member.
c. fig. To exclude, banish.
1586Praise of Mus. 77 By a commission onely of Sic volumus, Sic iubemus, to discommon that which is the principall [music].
2. In the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge: To deprive (a tradesman) of the privilege of dealing with the undergraduates.
1530in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford 80 The hedds of the Unyversite..dyscoumenyd hym, and commaunded all the mansebylls, cooks, and all others of the Unyversite that they shulde nother bye nor sell wt hym. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. iii. vi. §39 A civil penalty (equivalent to the Universities discommoning a Townsman in Cambridg). 1762Gentl. Mag. 91 An action depending in the vice-chancellor's court at Oxford against a tradesman of that place was determined, when the defendant was publickly discommoned. 1864J. H. Newman Apol. 173, I had been posted up by the marshal on the buttery hatch of every College of my University, after the manner of discommoned pastry-cooks.
b. To deprive of commons; = discommons 1.
1825C. M. Westmacott Eng. Spy I. 167, I was instantly expelled college, discommoned.
3. a. To deprive of the right of common; to exclude from pasturing on a common: see common n.1 5, 6. Also fig. b. To deprive of the character of a common; to inclose (common land).
1597–8Bp. Hall Sat. v. iii. 72 Whiles thou discommonest thy neighbour's kine, And warn'st that none feed in thy field. 1828Webster, Dis-common, to appropriate common land; to separate and inclose common. Cowel. 1865Lowell New Eng. Two C. Ago Prose Wks. 1890 II. 76 To develop the latent possibilities of English law and English character, by clearing away the fences by which the abuse of the one was gradually discommoning the other from the broad fields of natural right. |