discamp

English

Etymology

See decamp and dis-.

Verb

discamp (third-person singular simple present discamps, present participle discamping, simple past and past participle discamped)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To drive away from a camp.
   • 1606, Philemon Holland, De Vita Caesarum, translation of original by Suetonius:

     No enemie put he ever to flight, but he discamped him and draue him out of the field.

References

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

Anagrams

• midcaps