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▪ I. discorporate, ppl. a. rare.|dɪsˈkɔːpərət|
[f. dis- 10 + corporate a.: perh. ad. med. (Anglo) L. discorporātus dissolved, ‘corpus discorporatum dissolutum declaramus’ Rymer XV. 244/1.]
†1. Deprived of corporate character and privileges; made no longer a corporation; disincorporated. Obs.
1682Enq. Elect. Sheriffs 45 The City was never to this day discorporate. 1688Lond. Gaz. No. 2391/1 Such of the said Corporations..are not Discorporate or Dissolved.
2. Not corporate; not united into a corporation; dissociated. (nonce-use.)
1833Carlyle Diderot in Misc. Ess. (1888) V. 11 Corporations of all sorts have perished from corpulence); and now instead of the seven corporate selfish spirits, we have the four and twenty millions of discorporate selfish.
▪ II. discorporate, v. rare.|dɪsˈkɔːpəreɪt|
[f. dis- 6 + corporate v.: perh. immed. repr. a med.L. *discorporāre: cf. prec.]
1. trans. To deprive of corporate character; to dissolve (a corporate body).
1683T. Hunt Def. Charter Lond. 40 A Corporation or Society of men may discorporate and dissolve themselves.
2. To separate from a corporate body; to dissociate, disconnect.
1891Edin. Rev. Oct. 309 Grattan..predicted..that a priesthood unconnected with the English Government would lead to a Catholic laity discorporated from the people of England. |