disheir

English

Etymology

dis- +‎ heir

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈsɛə(ɹ)/

Verb

disheir (third-person singular simple present disheirs, present participle disheiring, simple past and past participle disheired)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To disinherit.
   • 1687, [John Dryden], “(please specify the page number)”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:

     dis-heir the crown

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “disheir”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• dishier