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dispauperise

dispauperise is the alternative form of dispauperize.

Meaning of dispauperize

Verb

dispauperize (third-person singular simple present dispauperizes, present participle dispauperizing, simple past and past participle dispauperized)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To free from pauperism, or from paupers.
    • Thomas Whately, of Cookham, a clergyman, to whom the country is much indebted for the example he has set in dispauperizing that parish, gave me a list of books, forming a tolerable library, which were in circulation amongst his parishioners of the labouring classes, by whom they are eagerly read […]1834, Evidence on Drunkenness: Presented to the House of Commons

Forms of dispauperise

third-person singular presentdispauperises
present participledispauperising
past participledispauperised
pastdispauperised

Questions about dispauperise

What is dispauperise the alternative form of?
Dispauperise is the alternative form of dispauperize.

Words near dispauperise in the dictionary

  1. dispathies
  2. dispathy
  3. dispauper
  4. dispaupered
  5. dispaupering
  6. dispauperise
  7. dispauperised
  8. dispauperises
  9. dispauperising
  10. dispauperize
  11. dispauperized

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