单词 | disavouch |
释义 | † disavouchv. Obsolete. transitive. To refuse to acknowledge or accept; to reject, repudiate; = disavow v. Also with infinitive as object. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > refusal > [verb (transitive)] > abandon, renounce, or refuse to acknowledge shrivec1374 disavowc1400 reject1426 renouncec1450 disvow1502 disavouch1583 disclaim1585 to throw (also cast, fling, etc.) overboard1588 disacknowledge1598 forjure1601 disknow1606 disvoucha1616 to swear off1839 to throw down1895 to go into the discard1898 ditch1921 cancel1990 1583 Answeare Def. Censure Charkes Bk. f. 5v Your Pope, a forreigne priest: whom you holde a God in earth, that cannot erre, and therefore dare not disauouch any his doinges. 1609 S. Daniel Civile Wares (rev. ed.) iv. xxvi. 94 They flatly disauouch To yeld him more obedience. 1637 R. Humfrey tr. St. Ambrose Christian Offices Pref. Numa Pompilius ceremonies were disavouched by Quintus Petilius. 1679 J. Kid in G. Hickes Spirit of Popery (1680) 7 Disowning and dissavouching that which sometime we judged our honour to testifie for and avouch. 1899 Proc. Royal Soc. Victoria 12 85 It does not disavouch the possibility that one of those who exhumed these bones..had the opportunity..to fabricate the one in question. 1928 S. V. Benét John Brown's Body viii. 337 What I have sought that I have sought And cannot disavouch, although it is The double knife that cuts the giver's hand. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < v.1583 |
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