discommon
/dɪˈskɒmən/Now historical
verb
1To deprive of citizenship; to disfranchise. rare after 17th cent.
2At the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge: to ban (a tradesman) from trading with or supplying goods to the undergraduates. Now historical.
3 Oxford Univ. and Cambridge Univ. To deprive (a student) of commons in a college. Also: (at the University of Oxford) to expel from college. Compare discommons. Now historical and rare.
4To deprive of the character of a common; to enclose (common land). Also in figurative contexts. Now rare.
Origin
Late Middle English. Partly from dis- + common, and partly from dis- + common.
- weasel's snout
- weasel words
- weather
- weather balloon
- weather-beaten
- weatherboard
- weatherboarding
- weather bomb
- weatherbound
- weather chart
- weathercock
- weathered
- weatherfish
- weather forecast
- weather forecaster
- weather forecasting
- weathergirl
- weather glass
- weather helm
- weather house
- weatherise
- weatherization
- weatherize
- weatherliness
- weatherly