discabinet
discabinet verb: to reveal (something secret).
Verb
discabinet (third-person singular simple present discabinets, present participle discabineting, simple past and past participle discabineted)
- To reveal (something secret).
- Thus, the Cabinet Council is not a true act of discabineting, and it is possible that Ralegh's status as truth-teller is being ironised, since any educated reader would recognise this as merely a collection of other people's ideas.1997, Anna R. Beer, Sir Walter Ralegh and His Readers in the Seventeenth Century: Speaking to the People, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Press Ltd.; New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page...
- Most important, he may have felt that while working through Machiavelli, Raleigh had discabineted a series of sentiments immediately relevant to his own understanding of the war.2001 February, Paul Stevens, “Milton's "Renunciation" of Cromwell: The Problem of Raleigh's Cabinet-Council”, in Modern Philology, volume 98, number 3, Chicago, I.L.: The University of Chicago Press...
Forms of discabinet
| third-person singular present | discabinets |
|---|---|
| present participle | discabineting |
| past participle | discabineted |
| past | discabineted |
Origin of discabinet
From dis- + cabinet.
Questions about discabinet
- What does discabinet mean?
- Discabinet means to reveal (something secret).
- What part of speech is discabinet?
- Discabinet is a verb.
- What is the past tense of discabinet?
- The past tense of discabinet is discabineted.
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