disbend
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disbend (third-person singular simple present disbends, present participle disbending, simple past and past participle disbent)
- (obsolete) To unbend.
- 1613, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling, An Elegie on the Death of Prince Henrie:
- Is it that God euen then, would hautie thoughts disbend?
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “disbend”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)