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disafforest, v.|dɪsəˈfɒrɪst|
[ad. med. (Anglo-) L. disafforestāre (in Charter of Forests 13th c.), f. dis- 4 + afforestāre to afforest. Cf. the synonymous de-afforest, deforest, disforest.]
1. trans. To free from the operation of the forest laws; to reduce from the legal state of forest to that of ordinary land.
[1225Charta Forestæ an. 9 Hen. III, c. 3 (Spelman s.v. Afforestare) Omnes bosci qui fuerunt afforestati per Richardum avunculum nostrum..statim Disafforestentur.] 1598Stow Surv. xli. (1603) 424 The Forest of Midlesex, and the Warren of Stanes were disaforested. 1598J. Manwood Lawes Forest xvi. §9 (1615) 116/2 By the Charter, all new forests were generally to bee disafforested. 1677N. Cox Gentlem. Recr. i. (ed. 2) 24 Afforest, is to turn Land into Forest. Disafforest, is to turn Land from being Forest to other uses. 1725Lond. Gaz. No. 6350/3 The whole inclosed with a Pale, and disaforested. 1888Black Adv. House-boat 71, I don't know when the district was disafforested; but in Shakespeare's own time they hunted red-deer in these Warwickshire woods.
fig.a1631Donne Poems, To Sir Herbert (1650) 157 How happy is he, which hath due place assign'd To his beasts; and disaforested his mind.
absol.1638Sir R. Cotton Abstr. Rec. Tower 14 [Edward I] disafforested in most Counties of England.
2. To strip or clear of forests or trees. rare.
1842De Quincey in Blackw. Mag. LII. 126 From the wreck of her woods by means of incendiary armies, Greece is, for a season, disafforested.
Hence disaˈfforested ppl. a.; disaˈfforesting vbl. n. and ppl. a.; also disaˈfforestment.
1857Toulmin Smith Parish 469 For the disafforesting of the royal forests and chases. 1875Buckland Log-bk. 240 This was before the miserable cheese-paring policy of disafforesting, when the red-deer were still to be seen in the forest glades. 1882Standard 14 Mar., A Commissioner under the Hainault Disafforesting Commission. 1889Blackw. Mag. CXLVI. 661/1 The great disafforestment proceeds apace. |