disforestation
English
editEtymology
editdis- + forestation
Noun
editdisforestation (usually uncountable, plural disforestations)
- Archaic form of deforestation.
- 1618, Samuel Daniel, The Collection of the History of England:
- Disforestations.—And twelue Knights, or Legall men are chosen in euery shiere, vppon their Oath, to disparte the olde Forrests from the new […]
References
edit“disforestation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.