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dismail

dismail verb: to remove the chainmail or armour from (someone).

Verb

dismail (third-person singular simple present dismails, present participle dismailing, simple past and past participle dismailed)

  1. (archaic) To remove the chainmail or armour from (someone).
    • Their mightie ſtrokes their haberieons diſmayld, / And naked made each others manly ſpalles; […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 30, page 265

Forms of dismail

third-person singular presentdismails
present participledismailing
past participledismailed
pastdismailed

Origin of dismail

From Old French desmailler.

Questions about dismail

What does dismail mean?
Dismail means to remove the chainmail or armour from (someone).
What part of speech is dismail?
Dismail is a verb.
What is the past tense of dismail?
The past tense of dismail is dismailed.

Words near dismail in the dictionary

  1. disloyalty cards
  2. dislustre
  3. dislustred
  4. dislustres
  5. dislustring
  6. dismail
  7. dismailed
  8. dismailing
  9. dismails
  10. dismal
  11. dismal Dora

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