discommonsv.
/dɪˈskɒmənz/, U.S. /dɪˈskɑmənz/ British. Now historical and rare.
1. transitive. = discommon v. 2a.
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society > trade and finance > [verb (transitive)] > impede, restrict, or suspend trade > deprive privilege of student dealing
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discommune1677
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discommonize1886
1823 J. Campbell Hints for Oxf. iii. 31 A simple edict forbidding all tradesmen to give credit to the members of the University, would do the whole business at once. If they persisted, discommons them, or refuse them any legal relief at the Vice-Chancellor's court.
1840 Metrop. Mag. Nov. 239 I..will sue for your being discommons'd for making false entries.
1894 Liverpool Mercury 16 Mar. 5/4 It has been proposed to ‘discommons’ boatmen who let out boats to men who cannot swim.
1923 E. K. Chambers Elizabethan Stage III. xxiii. 235 The offenders were to be discommonsed.
2. transitive. Oxford University and Cambridge University. To deprive (a student) of commons (commons n. 5c) in a college. Cf. discommon v. 2b.
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society > education > educational administration > university administration > [verb (transitive)] > allowances or depriving of
size1598
discommon1727
discommons1856
1856 F. E. Paget Owlet of Owlstone Edge 112 The world that could be ruled by being discommonsed, imposed, rusticated, expelled, lay at his mercy.
1881 G. Saintsbury Dryden i. 6 On July 19th, 1652..he was discommonsed and gated for a fortnight for disobedience and contumacy.
1894 J. D. Astley Fifty Years of my Life I. 34 I was discommonsed for keeping a dog contrary to the statutes. This meant my not being allowed to have my breakfast (or commons) brought from the College kitchen.
1905 H. M. Dexter & M. Dexter Eng. & Holland of Pilgrims iv. i. 275 All infractions of these statutes subjected the offender..if an adult, to a fine, or, for the graver offences, to be discommonsed—i.e., shut out of the dining-hall—to be set in the college stocks, or to be expelled.
Derivatives
disˈcommonsed adj. that has been discommonsed.
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1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. i. 12 To keep all discommonsed tradesmen..and bad characters generally, out of the college.
1945 D. L. Murray Folly Bridge 238 A man of letters is not to be drawn from his studies..at the whim of doubtful adventurers..and discommonsed undergraduates.
disˈcommonsing n. the action or an act of discommonsing someone; an instance of this.
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1859 Hunt's Yachting Mag. Dec. 591 Boat owners should not be permitted to let out such boats to persons who cannot swim under penalty of discommonsing for one or more days.
1881 Pall Mall Budget 4 Nov. 20 Like a great school where a lecture, an imposition, a discommonsing, a gentle personal castigation, or..expulsion were the only punishments in use.
1921 W. W. R. Ball Cambr. Notes (ed. 2) ii. xviii. 227 In a disciplinary order of Corpus Christi College in 1684, the only punishments mentioned are discommonsings, admonitions, rustications, deprivation of seniority, and refusal of college testimonials.
1985 Rev. Eng. Stud. 36 39 Discommonsing, walling, and public confession were regular forms of punishment.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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