disprepare

English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ prepare.

Verb

disprepare (third-person singular simple present disprepares, present participle dispreparing, simple past and past participle disprepared)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To render unprepared.
   • 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill, London: […] [William Wilson] for Andrew Crooke, […], →OCLC:

     obtain dominion over men in this present world, endeavour by dark and erroneous doctrines to extinguish in them the light, both of nature and of the gospel, and so to disprepare them for the kingdom of God to come

References

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