disproperty

English

Etymology

dis- +‎ property

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To cause to be no longer property; to dispossess 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

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “disproperty”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)