discloak

English

Etymology

dis- +‎ cloak

Verb

discloak (third-person singular simple present discloaks, present participle discloaking, simple past and past participle discloaked)

1. (obsolete) To remove a cloak from.
   • 1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC:

     Now go in, discloak yourself, and come forth

Related terms

• decloak
• uncloak

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “discloak”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)