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disforest, v.|dɪsˈfɒrɪst|
Also 7 disforrest.
[ad. OF. desforester, f. des- = dis- 4 + forest. Cf. the synonymous deforest, de-afforest, disafforest, med.L. deafforestare, disafforestare.]
1. trans. = disafforest 1.
1502Arnolde Chron. (1811) 208 Yf any wood other than y⊇ lordis wood..be aforestid, to y⊇ hurte of hym of whom y⊇ wood were, it shalbe disforestid. 1542–3Act 34–5 Hen. VIII, c. 21 Disparked, disforested or destroied. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xix. 60 [He] disforrested the great Field of Wichwood, which King Edward his Brother had inclosed for his game. 1726Ayliffe Parergon 217 (L.) The Archbishop of Dublin was fined three hundred marks for disforesting a forest belonging to his archbishoprick. 1860Trollope Framley P. i. 17 The forest will be disforested.
b. fig.
1624Bp. Hall Peace-maker Wks. (1625) 537 The great King of Heauen will disforest that peece of the World which hee calls his Church, and put it to tillage. 1829Southey Sir T. More II. 338 My old haunts as a book-hunter in the metropolis were disforested, to make room for the improvements between Westminster and Oxford Road.
2. To clear of forests or trees.
a1668Davenant Anglesey Wks. (1673) 288 Or did her voyce..Make all the Trees dance after her, And so your Woods disforrested? 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 180 The destroying axe..accompanied the sword..till the island became almost disforested. 1876R. F. Burton Gorilla L. II. 275 These bush-burnings have..disforested the land.
Hence disˈforesting vbl. n.; disforeˈstation.
1613–8Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. (1626) 167 The allowance of what disforrestation had heeretofore beene made was earnestly vrged. 1862Q. Rev. Apr. 289 Before the disforesting of Cranborne Chace. 1870H. Macmillan Bible Teach. iv. 70 Palestine has become a parched and sterile land, on account of the disforesting of its mountains. |