单词 | disinherit |
释义 | disinheritv. 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. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < v.a1500 |
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