disadvance
English
editEtymology
editFrom Old French desavancer.
Verb
editdisadvance (third-person singular simple present disadvances, present participle disadvancing, simple past and past participle disadvanced)
- (obsolete, transitive) To draw back, pull back. [14th–17th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Through Cambels shoulder it unwarely went, / That forced him his shield to disadvaunce.