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Webster 1913 Edition


Disadvance

Disˊad-vance′

(?; 61)
,
Verb.
T.
&
I.
[Pref.
dis-
+
advance
: cf. OF.
desavancier
.]
To draw back, or cause to draw back.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

Webster 1828 Edition


Disadvance

DISADVANCE

,
Verb.
T.
or I. To check; to halt. [Not in use.]

Definition 2024


disadvance

disadvance

English

Verb

disadvance (third-person singular simple present disadvances, present participle disadvancing, simple past and past participle disadvanced)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To draw back, pull back. [14th-17th c.]
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.3:
      Through Cambels shoulder it unwarely went, / That forced him his shield to disadvaunce.