单词 | disafforest |
释义 | disafforestv. 1. transitive. Law. To free (land) from the operation of forest laws; to downgrade (an area) from the legal status of forest (forest n. 2) to that of ordinary land. Also figurative. Cf. afforest v. 1. Now historical.In quot. a16312 intransitive. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal power > [verb (transitive)] > free from forest, etc., laws disafforesta1450 disforestc1503 deforesta1552 de-afforest1640 dischase1726 de-awarren1727 diswarren1727 a1450 Forest Laws in W. A. Baillie-Grohman & F. Baillie-Grohman Master of Game (1904) 241 (MED) If there be ony mann that mad ony perambulacioun or disafforet ony parcell of the forest with oute special commaundement of oure lord the Kinge. 1598 J. Stow Suruay of London 347 The Forrest of Midlesex, and the Warren of Stanes were disaforested. a1631 J. Donne To Sir E. Herbert in Poems (1650) 157 How happy is he, which hath due place assign'd To his beasts; and disaforested his mind. a1631 R. Cotton Abstr. Rec. Tower (1642) 14 [Edward I] dissafforrested in most Counties of England. 1677 R. Thoroton Antiq. Notts. 505/2 Which..contains no more but this Forest of Shirewood, the rest being disafforested by Henry the third. 1725 London Gaz. No. 6350/3 The whole inclosed with a Pale, and disaforested. 1794 R. Lowe Gen. View Agric. Nottingham 8 Several tracts of land.., appear not to have belonged to the forest, or to have been disafforested. 1851 London Gaz. 7 Nov. 2906/2 Notice is hereby given..for an Act to disafforest and inclose the Forest of Whichwood. 1888 W. Black Strange Adventures House-boat 71 I don't know when the district was disafforested; but in Shakespeare's own time they hunted red-deer in these Warwickshire woods. 1935 E. C. Lodge & G. A. Thornton Eng. Constit. Documents 1307–1485 iii. v. 359 The barons made a serious attempt to disafforest the land. 1973 M. Davies in A. R. H. Baker & R. A. Butlin Stud. Field Syst. Brit. Isles xi. 484 These moorlands became a vast common pasture and were not wholly disafforested until 1815–19. 2008 Econ. Hist. Rev. 61 731 In 1507, the Crown disafforested the duchy of Lancaster's properties in this region. 2. transitive. To strip or clear (an area) of forests or trees. rare.Deforest is the usual term. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > reclaim [verb (transitive)] > clear land > in forest assart1523 rubbishc1602 glade1621 disforesta1668 essart1675 disafforest1842 de-afforest1848 deforest1880 1842 T. De Quincey in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 126 From the wreck of her woods by means of incendiary armies, Greece is, for a season, disafforested. 1933 Queenslander 20 Apr. 45/2 In 1919 the smaller area was disafforested, and the slash burnt in 1921. Derivatives disaˈfforested adj. ΚΠ 1728 N. Salmon New Surv. Eng.: Pt. I 152 Those Forests which have no Ranger, are such as to have..no disafforested Lands next to them. 1811 Derby Mercury 18 July A very valuable allotment of land, tithe free, part of the late disafforested forest. 1908 Zeehan & Dundas Herald 4 Mar. A great deal of replanting of disafforested areas is going on. 2004 M. J. Seymour Transformation of North Atlantic World, 1492–1763 vi. 148 Clearance and cultivation..could expose disafforested areas to rapid erosion when rainfall returned. disaˈfforesting n. and adj. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal power > [noun] > abolition of status of forest deforestinga1552 disafforestation1598 disforestation1613 de-afforestation1659 disafforesting1689 disafforestment1840 disforesting1862 1689 tr. Magna Carta in Refl. Opinions Mod. Divines 245 The same Right we will do in manner aforesaid, as to the Disafforesting of Forests. 1768 P. Morant Hist. Essex II. 32/2 The said Lord Bayning compounded for the disafforesting of the maner of Campions. 1814 E. Ogborne Hist. Essex 127 This place becoming more populous, from the disafforesting of part of the forest in the vicinity of this town. 1882 Standard 14 Mar. A Commissioner under the Hainault Disafforesting Commission. 1927 Times 9 Nov. In a few years about 3,000 acres had been lost in this way, and so late as 1851 Parliament sanctioned the complete disafforesting of Hainault Forest. 2007 Ambio 36 344/1 Any disafforesting activity is prohibited within the buffer zone by the related laws. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.a1450 |
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