disanoint
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disanoint (third-person singular simple present disanoints, present participle disanointing, simple past and past participle disanointed)
- (obsolete, transitive) To invalidate the consecration of.
- to disanoint a king
- 1649, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates: […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], published 1649 (2nd printing), →OCLC:
- after they have juggled and paltered with the world , bandied and borne arms against their king , divested him , disanointed him , nay , cursed him all over in their pulpits and their pamphlets
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “disanoint”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)