disman
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disman (third-person singular simple present dismans, present participle dismanning, simple past and past participle dismanned)
- (obsolete, transitive) To deprive of men.
- Synonym: unman
- to disman a country, a ship, etc.
- 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
- Though indeed, if we consider this dissolution, man by death is abſolutely divided and disman'd.
- (obsolete, transitive) To castrate or emasculate; to remove the manhood of.
- Synonym: unman
- (obsolete, transitive) To deprive of human character.
- Synonym: dehumanize
References edit
“disman”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.