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单词 disinherit
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disinheritv.

/dɪsɪnˈhɛrɪt/
Forms: Also 1500s disenerite, dishenerite.
Etymology: < dis- prefix 2a + inherit v.
a. transitive. To deprive or dispossess of an inheritance; ‘to cut off from an hereditary right’ (Johnson); to prevent (a person) from coming into possession of a property or right which in the ordinary course would devolve upon him as heir.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > cause to descend by succession [verb (transitive)] > disinherit
disheritc1290
disheritc1330
disheriss1489
disinherita1500
exheredate1552
to strike off with a shilling1597
disheir1607
disherison1654
to cut off with a shilling1834
to cut out1891
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin xxv. 452 We hadde leuer be disherited and chaced oute of the londe.
?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Aaii v The sonne him shal disenherite.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry V f. xliiiv Shamefully to dishenerite our selfe and the croune of oure realme.
1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1482/1 Yet hadde hee sente his people to inuade the sayde Dukes countrey..to destroye and dishinherite the saide Duke.
1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xxvii. 103 A very rich Woman, that had disinherited her kindred, and left her estate to the Pagod.
1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. May (1965) I. 410 A child thus adopted cannot be disinherited.
1860 W. F. Hook Lives Archbishops Canterbury (1869) I. 363 He was disinherited and turned out of his father's house.
b. Const. of. Obsolete.
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1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. xviiv Nor yet entended to disheneryt the yonge Duke Phillippe of hys graundfathers inheritaunce.
1621 State Trials, Abp. Abbot (R.) Some right of hunting, which the Archbishop was to disinherit his church of.
1663 R. South Serm. preached Nov. 9, 1662 34 Of how fair a portion Adam disinherited his whole posterity!
c. figurative.
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1637 J. Milton Comus 12 And thou fair moon..Stoope thy pale visage through an amber cloud And disinherit Chaos, that raigns here.
1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the First 12 God's Image, disinherited of Day, Here plung'd in Mines, forgets a Sun was made.
1844 E. B. Barrett Drama of Exile in Poems I. 39 Earth, methinks, Will disinherit thy philosophy.

Derivatives

disinˈherited adj.
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [adjective] > not having an inheritance > disinherited
disheritc1330
disherited1613
disinherited1635
disinheritated1654
exheredated1831
1635 Earl of Strafford Let. 5 Oct. (1739) I. 471 Those disinherited Princes of the Palatinate.
1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) II. x. 486 A disinherited and dispossessed chieftain still looked on the land as his own.
disinˈheriting n. and adj.
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [noun] > descent by inheritance > disinheritance
disherisonc1290
disheriting1388
disheritancea1450
exheredation1515
disinheritance1540
disinherison1543
disinheriting1583
exhereditation1583
disinheritation1835
disheritment1881
1583 Ld. Burghley Execution of Iustice sig. E.iiv The disinheriting of al the nobilitie.
1780 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal iv. i. 45 An unforgiving eye, and a damn'd disinheriting countenance.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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