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disman, v.|dɪsˈmæn|
[f. dis- 7 + man n.]
†1. trans. To undo as a man; to deprive of what constitutes the man. Obs.
1627–47Feltham Resolves i. xlvii. 149 Man by death is absolutely divided and disman'd. 1633Earl of Manchester Al Mondo (1636) 162 There is no spectacle..more terrible, than to behold a dying man, to stand by, and see a man dismanned. 1651N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. ii. i. (1739) 6 All is faint in that man that hath once dismanned himself.
2. To deprive (a country, etc.) of men.
1863Kinglake Crimea I. xiv. 293 This is why I have chosen to say that France was dismanned. |