Meanings
present singular third person disherits · participle present disheriting · participle past disherited · past disherited
- obsoleteTo disinherit.
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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
1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xxvij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book IV
Origin
- Latindis-
- Vulgar Latin*dishērētō
- Old Frenchdesheriter
- Middle Englishdisheriten
- Englishdisherit
From Middle English disheriten, desheriten et al., from Old French desheriter, from Vulgar Latin *dishērētō, from Latin dis- + hērēditō.
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