disforestation

English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ forestation.

Noun

disforestation (usually uncountable, plural disforestations)

1. Archaic form of deforestation.
   • 1618, Samuel Daniel, The Collection of the History of England:

     Disforestations.—And twelue Knights, or Legall men are chosen in euery shiere, vppon their Oath, to disparte the olde Forrests from the new […]

References

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