disproperty

English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ property.

Verb

disproperty (third-person singular simple present disproperties, present participle dispropertying, simple past and past participle dispropertied)

1. (transitive) To strip of property; to dispossess (someone) of.
   • c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     He still hath held them; that, to his power, he would
     Have made them mules, silenc'd their pleaders, and
     Disproperty'd their freedoms

References

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