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disquantity, v.|dɪsˈkwɒntɪtɪ|
[f. dis- 7 a + quantity n.]
1. trans. To lessen in quantity; to diminish.
1605Shakes. Lear i. iv. 270 Be then desir'd By her..A little to disquantity your Traine. 1633T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter iii. 9 [God] disquantitied his [Gideon's] forces from thirty-two thousand to three hundred.
2. To deprive of metrical quantity.
1866Lowell Swinburne's Trag. Prose Wks. 1890 II. 130 The Earl of Orford..used to have Statius read aloud to him every night for two hours by a tipsy tradesman..and found some strange mystery of sweetness in the disquantitied syllables. |