disendow
English
editEtymology
editVerb
editdisendow (third-person singular simple present disendows, present participle disendowing, simple past and past participle disendowed)
- To deprive of an endowment.
- 1868, a London rector, letter to William Ewart Gladstone:
- by law established, you cannot disestablish and disendow the Irish Branch without also disestablishing and disendowing the United Church
References
edit“disendow”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.