disally

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/dɪsəˈlaɪ//dɪsˈælaɪ/

verb

To separate

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Meanings

verbdisally (third-person singular simple present disallies, present participle disallying, simple past and past participle disallied)

present singular third person disallies · participle present disallying · participle past disallied · past disallied

  1. archaicTo separate

    As one on earth disfleshed and disallied From breath or blood corruptible

    1865, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Atalanta in Calydon (poem)
    1 more example

    chicken-pox and small-pox[…]disallying the two diseases. Yet since that day there have never been wanting those who have disputed the validity of the distinction

    1868, Sir John Russell Reynolds, A System of Medicine
  2. archaicto break off or cancel

    Nor both ſo looſly diſally'd Thir nuptials,

    1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 63

Origin

From dis- + ally: compare French désallier.

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “disally,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disally.

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