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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.
[See Heir.] To disinherit; to cut off from the possession or enjoyment of an inheritance. [See Disinherit, which is more generally used.]

Definition 2024


disherit

disherit

English

Verb

disherit (third-person singular simple present disherits, present participle disheriting, simple past and past participle disherited)

  1. (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