discommons

Verb

discommon (third-person singular simple present discommons, present participle discommoning, simple past and past participle discommoned)

1. (UK, historical) To deprive of the privilege of citizenship of a town or city.
   • But what punishment is laid vpon Recusants, by the rare clemencie of her Maiestie, any way comparable to those that Christian Emperours haue made against Recusants, or such as refused to communicate with the Church of Christ? They were discommoned from buying and selling, from bequeathing their...1600, Francis Hastings, An apologie or defence of the watch-word, page 161
2. (historical) To deprive (lands etc.) of commonable quality, by enclosing or appropriating.
   • She saw in front of her a two-storey house, standing back from the gravel pathway, on the edge of a triangular piece of turf which represented, no doubt, a more extensive village green, now discommoned and taken in by the private dwellings scattered around.1888, William Francis Barry, The New Antigone: A Romance, page 53
3. To exclude from using a commonable resource, such as land.
   • I know we may by way of admonition, before hand, tell them of the danger, and by way of perswasion presse them better to prepare themselves: but wee may not for their sakes discommon our selves from the table of the Lord .1639, Robert Abbot, A Triall of our Church-forsakers, page 117
4. (UK, historical, transitive, Oxford and Cambridge universities) To deprive of the right to deal with undergraduates.
   • […] persons violating the above statute are liable to a fine for the first offence, and to be discommoned for the second.1851, Oxford University Statutes: The University statutes, from 1767 to 1850

   Synonyms:

   discommons