disadvance

English

Etymology

From Old French desavancer.

Verb

disadvance (third-person singular simple present disadvances, present participle disadvancing, simple past and past participle disadvanced)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To draw back, pull back. [14th–17th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Through Cambels shoulder it unwarely went, / That forced him his shield to disadvaunce.