disforestv.
/dɪsˈfɒrɪst/, U.S. /dɪsˈfɔrəst/ 1.
a. transitive. = disafforest v. 1.
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society > law > legal power > [verb (transitive)] > free from forest, etc., laws
disafforesta1450
disforestc1503
deforesta1552
de-afforest1640
dischase1726
de-awarren1727
diswarren1727
c1503 tr. Charter of London in R. Arnold Chron. f. lxxixv/1 Yf any wood other than ye lordis wood..he aforestid to ye hurte of hym of whom ye wood were It shalbe disforestid.
1542–3 Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII c. 21 Disparked, disforested or destroied.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xix. 726/1 [He] disforrested the great Field of Wichwood, which King Edward his Brother had inclosed for his game.
1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 217 The Archbishop of Dublin was fined Three hundred Marks for disforesting a Forest belonging to his Archbishoprick.
1861 A. Trollope Framley Parsonage I. iii. 41 The forest will be disforested.
b. figurative.
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1624 Bp. J. Hall True Peace-maker 3 The great King of Heauen will disforest that peece of the world, which he calls his Church, and put it to tillage.
1829 R. Southey Sir Thomas More II. 338 My old haunts as a book-hunter in the metropolis were disforested, to make room for the improvements between Westminster and Oxford Road.
2. To clear of forests or trees.
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
a1668 W. Davenant Wks. (1673) i. 288 Or did her voyce..Make all the Trees dance after her, And so your Woods disforrested?
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 180 The destroying axe..accompanied the sword..till the island became almost disforested.
1876 R. F. Burton Two Trips Gorilla Land II. 275 These bush-burnings have..disforested the land.
Derivatives
disˈforesting n.
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society > law > legal power > [noun] > abolition of status of forest
deforestinga1552
disafforestation1598
disforestation1613
de-afforestation1659
disafforesting1689
disafforestment1840
disforesting1862
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [noun] > stripping or uncovering so as to leave bare > stripping land of vegetation > stripping land of trees
disafforestation1841
disforesting1862
deforestation1874
deforesting1880
1862 Q. Rev. Apr. 289 Before the disforesting of Cranborne Chace.
1870 H. Macmillan Bible Teachings iv. 70 Palestine has become a parched and sterile land, on account of the disforesting of its mountains.
disforeˈstation n.
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society > law > legal power > [noun] > abolition of status of forest
deforestinga1552
disafforestation1598
disforestation1613
de-afforestation1659
disafforesting1689
disafforestment1840
disforesting1862
1613–18 S. Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. (1626) 167 The allowance of what disforrestation had heeretofore beene made was earnestly vrged.
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