disherit
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English disheriten, desheriten et al., from Old French desheriter, from Vulgar Latin *dishērētō, from Latin dis- + hērēditō.
Verb
editdisherit (third-person singular simple present disherits, present participle disheriting, simple past and past participle disherited)
- (obsolete) To disinherit.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xxvij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book IV:
- So there were in the countrey two knyȝtes that were bretheren
and they were called two peryllous knyghtes
the one knyghte hyght syre Edward of the reed castel
the other syr Hue of the reed castel
And these two bretheren had disheryted the lady of the roche of a Baronry of landes by their extorsion- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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