discabinet

English

Etymology

Verb

discabinet (third-person singular simple present discabinets, present participle discabineting, simple past and past participle discabineted)

(transitive, rare) To reveal (something secret).
- 1997, Anna R. Beer, Sir Walter Ralegh and His Readers in the Seventeenth Century: Speaking to the People, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Press Ltd.; New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 162:
  Thus, the Cabinet Council is not a true act of discabineting, and it is possible that Ralegh's status as truth-teller is being ironised, since any educated reader would recognise this as merely a collection of other people's ideas.
- 2001 February, Paul Stevens, “Milton's "Renunciation" of Cromwell: The Problem of Raleigh's Cabinet-Council”, in Modern Philology, volume 98, number 3, Chicago, I.L.: The University of Chicago Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 386:
  Most important, he may have felt that while working through Machiavelli, Raleigh had discabineted a series of sentiments immediately relevant to his own understanding of the war.

Usage notes

Now mainly used in reference to the works of English statesman Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618).

References

“discabinet, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.