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Webster 1913 Edition
disherit
dis-her′it
(dĭs-hĕr′ĭt)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Disherited
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Disheriting
.] [F.
déshériter
; pref. dés-
(L. dis-
) + hériter
to inherit. See Inherit
, and cf. Dusheir
, Disinherit
.] To disinherit; to cut off, or detain, from the possession or enjoyment of an inheritance.
[Obs.]
Spenser.
Webster 1828 Edition
Disherit
DISHERIT
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
disherit
disherit
English
Verb
disherit (third-person singular simple present disherits, present participle disheriting, simple past and past participle disherited)
- (obsolete) To disinherit.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter xxvij, in Le Morte Darthur, book IV:
- So there were in the countrey two knyȝtes that were bretheren / and they were called two peryllous knyghtes / the one knyghte hyght syre Edward of the reed castel / the other syr Hue of the reed castel / And these two bretheren had disheryted the lady of the roche of a Baronry of landes by their extorsion
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter xxvij, in Le Morte Darthur, book IV: