disturn
English
editEtymology
editFrom Old French destourner, French détourner. See detour.
Verb
editdisturn (third-person singular simple present disturns, present participle disturning, simple past and past participle disturned)
- (obsolete) To turn aside.
- 1595, Samuel Daniel, “(please specify the folio number)”, in The First Fowre Bookes of the Ciuile Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke, London: […] P[eter] Short for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:
- And glad was to diſturn that furious
Stream Of War on us
References
edit“disturn”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.