disally

English edit

Etymology edit

dis- +‎ ally: compare French désallier.

Pronunciation edit

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Verb edit

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

(archaic) To separate
- 1868, Sir John Russell Reynolds, A System of Medicine:
  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
- 1865, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Atalanta in Calydon (poem):
  As one on earth disfleshed and disallied
  From breath or blood corruptible
(archaic) to break off or cancel
- 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 63:
  Nor both ſo looſly diſally'd / Thir nuptials,

References edit

“disally”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.