Meanings
present singular third person discabinets · participle present discabineting · participle past discabineted · past discabineted
- raretransitiveTo reveal (something secret).
Most important, he may have felt that while working through Machiavelli, Raleigh had discabineted a series of sentiments immediately relevant to his own understanding of the war.
2001 February, Paul Stevens, “Milton's "Renunciation" of Cromwell: The Problem of Raleigh's Cabinet-Council”, in Modern Philology, volume 98, number 3, Chicago, I.L.: The University of Chicago Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3861 more example
Thus, the Cabinet Council is not a true act of discabineting, and it is possible that Ralegh's status as truth-teller is being ironised, since any educated reader would recognise this as merely a collection of other people's ideas.
1997, Anna R. Beer, Sir Walter Ralegh and His Readers in the Seventeenth Century: Speaking to the People, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Press Ltd.; New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 162
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