disnaturalize

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Etymology edit

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disnaturalize (third-person singular simple present disnaturalizes, present participle disnaturalizing, simple past and past participle disnaturalized)

(transitive) To make alien; to deprive of the privileges of birth.
- 1704, John Locke, The Whole History of Navigation from Its Original to this Time:
  [he] […] having served his prince well both in Afric and India, and being ill rewarded, renounced his country , disnaturalizing himself as the custom then was

References edit

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