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▪ I. † disˈlustre, n. Obs.
[dis- 9.]
Loss or deprivation of lustre; something that dims lustre.
1656Sir J. Finett For. Ambass. 151 To exclude the Venetian, that he might not by his Presence be a dis-lustre to him in his march. 1667Waterhouse Fire Lond. 139 Do not glory in her ruines, trample not upon her dislustre.
▪ II. dislustre, v.|dɪsˈlʌstə(r)|
[dis- 7 a.]
1. trans. To deprive of lustre or brightness; to dim, sully. Hence disˈlustred ppl. a.
1638Baker tr. Balzac's Lett. (1654) II. 25 To dislustre so pure a matter with the impression of so black a vapour. 1654W. Mountague Devout Ess. ii. vi. §3 (R.) All those glittering passions..get their lustre in the absence of that intellectual light, which as soon as it appears, deads and dislustres them. 1667Digby Elvira v. iv, Whose character would it not dislustre? 1868Lowell Willows ii, Her [May's] budding breasts and wan dislustered front.
2. intr. To lose its lustre.
1890R. Bridges Shorter Poems iv. 15 When their bloom Dislustres. |