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disendow, v.|dɪsɪnˈdaʊ|
[f. dis- 6 + endow.]
trans. To deprive or strip of endowments.
1861F. Hall in Jrnl. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 4 Descendants who were not entirely disendowed of power. 1868Pall Mall G. 18 Feb., One cannot understand why the Protestant rector should vanish from the land the moment the [Irish] Church is disendowed. 1883Labouchere in Fortn. Rev., The Established Church will at once be disestablished and disendowed.
Hence disenˈdowed ppl. a., disenˈdowing vbl. n. and ppl. a.; also disenˈdower, one who disendows; disenˈdowment, the action or fact of disendowing. (All chiefly used in reference to ecclesiastical endowments.)
1864Webster, Disendowment. 1867Brewer in Times 10 Apr. 8 The House of Commons has pledged itself to the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church. 1869Daily Tel. 5 July, The great disestablisher and disendower. 1874Eclectic Sept. 319 The secularized and disendowed priests of a once popular religion. 1874Morley Compromise (1886) 99 The disendowment of the national church. 1888Pall Mall G. 9 Apr. 2/2 Used to hearing disestablishers accused of a new Crucifixion and disendowers identified with Judas. |