disyoke

English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ yoke.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊk

Verb

disyoke (third-person singular simple present disyokes, present participle disyoking, simple past and past participle disyoked)

1. (transitive, poetic) To free (someone or something) from a yoke; to disjoin, to unyoke.
   • 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Part II”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 30:

     Deep, indeed, / Their debt of thanks to her who first had dared / To leap the rotten pales of prejudice, / Disyoke their necks from custom, and assert / None lordlier than themselves but that which made / Woman and man.

   • 1875, Robert Browning, “Herakles”, in Aristophanes’ Apology […], London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 319:

     O me, my wife, my boys— / And—O myself, how, miserably moved, / Am I disyoked now from both boys and wife!

References

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