disherit

English

Etymology

From Middle English disheriten, desheriten et al., from Old French desheriter, from Vulgar Latin *dishērētō, from Latin dis- + hērēditō.

Verb

disherit (third-person singular simple present disherits, present participle disheriting, simple past and past participle disherited)

1. (obsolete) To disinherit.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xxvij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book IV (in Middle English):

     So there were in the countrey two knyȝtes that were bretheren
     and they were called two peryllous knyghtes
     the one knyghte hyght syre Edward of the reed castel
     the other syr Hue of the reed castel
     And these two bretheren had disheryted the lady of the roche of a Baronry of landes by their extorsion

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Derived terms

• disheritor

 

Anagrams

• histerid, tiredish