dishable

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪsˈheɪbəl/, /dɪˈseɪbəl/

Verb

dishable (third-person singular simple present dishables, present participle dishabling, simple past and past participle dishabled)

1. Obsolete form of disable.
2. (obsolete) To disparage.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 21:

     She oft him blamed […] and him dishabled quite.

References

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