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disanoint

disanoint verb: to invalidate the consecration of.

Verb

disanoint (third-person singular simple present disanoints, present participle disanointing, simple past and past participle disanointed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To invalidate the consecration of.
    • to disanoint a king
    • after they have juggled and paltered with the world , bandied and borne arms against their king , divested him , disanointed him , nay , cursed him all over in their pulpits and their pamphlets1649, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates: […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], published 1649 (2nd printing), →OCLC

Forms of disanoint

third-person singular presentdisanoints
present participledisanointing
past participledisanointed
pastdisanointed

Origin of disanoint

From dis- + anoint.

Questions about disanoint

What does disanoint mean?
Disanoint means to invalidate the consecration of.
What part of speech is disanoint?
Disanoint is a verb.
What is the past tense of disanoint?
The past tense of disanoint is disanointed.

Words near disanoint in the dictionary

  1. disannullers
  2. disannulling
  3. disannulment
  4. disannulments
  5. disannuls
  6. disanoint
  7. disanointed
  8. disanointing
  9. disanoints
  10. disanthropic
  11. disanthropies

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