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discommons, v.|dɪsˈkɒmənz| [f. dis- 7 a + commons n. pl., 3, 4.] Hence disˈcommonsed ppl. a., disˈcommonsing vbl. n. 1. trans. To deprive of commons in a college.
1856F. E. Paget Owlet Owlst. 112 The world that could be ruled by being discommonsed, imposed, rusticated, expelled, lay at his mercy. 1881Saintsbury Dryden i. 6 On July 19th, 1652..he was discommonsed and gated for a fortnight for disobedience and contumacy. 1881Pall Mall Budget 4 Nov. 20 Like a great school where a lecture, an imposition, a discommonsing, a gentle personal castigation, or..expulsion were the only punishments in use. 1894Sir J. D. Astley 50 Years' Sport I. 34, I was discommonsed for keeping a dog contrary to the statutes. 2. = discommon 2.
1852Bristed 5 Years in Eng. Univ. (ed. 2) 81 note, The owners [of lodging-houses] being solemnly bound to report all their lodgers who stay out at night, under pain of being ‘discommonsed’. 1861Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. i. (1889) 6 To keep all discommonsed tradesmen..and bad characters generally, out of the college. |