discase
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editdiscase (third-person singular simple present discases, present participle discasing, simple past and past participle discased)
- (archaic) To strip; to undress (remove cclothes)
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
- I will discase me, and myself present,
As I was sometime Milan.
- (archaic) To remove; to lay bare
- 1809, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Friend:
- discasing the hearts of all the families within their sphere of influence
Translations
editto strip, to undress
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References
edit- “discase”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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