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† disherit, v. Obs.|dɪsˈhɛrɪt|
Forms: 3–4 deserit(e, -yte, -et, 4 desherit(e, dysheriete, 4–5 diserit(e, -yt, dyserit, 4–7 disherite, 5–6 dis-, dysherit, -yt(e, -et(t, -eit, 4–8 disherit.
[ME. a. OF. desheriter, deseriter, -ereter, -ireter, etc., mod.F. déshériter = Pr. des(h)eretar, Sp. desheredar, Pg. desherdar, It. diseredare, med.L. disheritāre, deheritāre (Du Cange):—Rom. desheretāre, for L. *de-, *dishērēditāre, f. de- 6, dis- 4 + hērēditāre to inherit, f. hērēditās heirship, inheritance. The pa. pple. and sometimes the pa. tense had also the shortened form disherit, with the variants disherid, -ied, desered, desirit: see examples at end of the article.]
1. trans. To deprive or dispossess of an inheritance; to disinherit.
c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 74/107 Alle oþure weren deseritede. c1385Chaucer L.G.W. 1065 Dido, That euere swich a noble man as he [Eneas] Schal ben diserityd in swich degre. c1465Eng. Chron. (Camden) 16 Thow has thaym slayne vnrightfulli, and disherited thair heiris. 1538Starkey England ii. ii. 196 Hyt were not mete that the father schold dysheryte hys chyld. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. Table 230 [He] rebels against his Father, is disherited by his Fathers will. 1700Dryden Fables, Pal. & Arc. iii. 968 The dryads and the woodland train Disherited ran howling o'er the plain.
b. Const. of (rarely from).
c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 5394 He scholde..Deserite Wyder of ylka del. c1386Chaucer Melib. ⁋869 To desherite hem of al þat euere they han. 1523Fitzherb. Surv. Prol., Disheryted of their possessyons. 1570T. Norton tr. Nowel's Catech. (1853) 193 Like children disherited from their father's goods. 1652–62Heylin Cosmogr. ii. (1682) 5 Disherited of their Fathers kingdom. 1795Southey Joan of Arc i. 172 The great and honourable men Have seized the earth, and of the heritage Which God..to all had given, Disherited their brethren!
2. fig. To deprive, dispossess; to banish from its rightful domain (quot. 15791).
c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xxxii. 145 Ay to þis tyme we bene in peess, of þe whilk þou will now dispoile vs and disherit vs. 1579E. K. Ded. to Spenser's Sheph. Cal., This Poet..hath labored to restore, as to their rightfull heritage, such good and naturall English wordes, as have beene long time out of use, and almost cleane disherited. 1579Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 192 Thou art an heyre to fayre lyuing, that is nothing, if thou be disherited of learning. 1795Coleridge Juvenile Poems (1864) 62 Made blind by lusts, disherited of soul.
Hence disˈherited ppl. a., disˈheriting vbl. n.
1388in Wyclif's Sel. Wks. III. 471 A pleynt of disherytyng of his riȝt and possessions. c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 5522 Of þair diserytyng to sees [= cease]. 1613–8Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. (1626) 154 The dis-herited returne answer to the Legat. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. iii. vii. §2 The premisses tend..to the disheriting of the Crown of England.
¶ Examples of pa. pple. and pa. tense disherit, etc.
c1314Guy Warw. (A.) 6164 Thurch felonie mi fader he slough, Mi brother he desirit with wough. c1375Lay Folks Mass Bk. (MS. B.) 379 Pore, exilde, deserit. c1375XI Pains of Hell 39 in O.E. Misc. 211 Þese..deseredyn treu ayrs vnryȝtfully. 1460J. Capgrave Chron. 289 Many men were disherid of her londis. 1523Fitzherb. Surv. Prol., Theyr heyres shuld nat be disheryt. a1533Ld. Berners Huon lx. 210 He hath dysheryt me. |