Meanings
verbdisattire (third-person singular simple present disattires, present participle disattiring, simple past and past participle disattired)
present singular third person disattires · participle present disattiring · participle past disattired · past disattired
- transitiveTo undress.
There he was welcom'd of that honeſt ſyre, And of his aged Beldame homely well; Who him beſought himſelfe to diſattyre, And reſt himſelfe, till ſupper time befell.
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, page 470
Origin
From dis- + attire: compare Old French desatirier.
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