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disinherit, v.|dɪsɪnˈhɛrɪt|
Also 6 disen-, dishenerite.
[f. dis- 6 + inherit v.]
trans. To deprive or dispossess of an inheritance; ‘to cut off from an hereditary right’ (J.); to prevent (a person) from coming into possession of a property or right which in the ordinary course would devolve upon him as heir.
c1450Merlin 452 We hadde leuer be disinherited and chased oute of the londe. c1532G. Du Wes Introd. Fr. in Palsgr. 1040 The sonne him shal disenherite. 1548Hall Chron., Hen. V an. 2 (1809) 60 Shamefully to dishenerite ourselfe and the Croune of our Realme. 1577–87Holinshed Chron. III. 820/2 Yet had he sent his people to inuade the said dukes countrie..to destroie and dishinherit the said duke. 1653H. Cogan tr. Pinto's Trav. xxvii. 103 A very rich Woman, that had disinherited her kindred, and left her estate to the Pagod. 1718Lady M. W. Montagu Let. to C'tess Bristol (1887) I. 240 A child thus adopted cannot be disinherited. 1860Hook Lives Abps. (1869) I. 363 He was disinherited and turned out of his father's house.
†b. Const. of. Obs.
1548Hall Chron., Hen. VII an. 4 (1809) 444 Nor yet Entended to disheneryt the yonge Duke Phillippe of his Graundfathers inheritaunce. 1621State Trials, Abp. Abbot (R.) Some right of hunting, which the Archbishop was to disinherit his church of. a1716South (J.) Of how fair a portion Adam disinherited his whole posterity!
c. fig.
1634Milton Comus 334 And thou, fair moon..Stoop thy pale visage through an amber cloud, And disinherit Chaos, that reigns here. 1742Young Nt. Th. i. 246 God's image disinherited of day, Here, plung'd in mines, forgets a sun was made. 1840Mrs. Browning Drama of Exile Wks. 1889 I. 35 Earth, methinks, Will disinherit thy philosophy.
Hence disinˈherited ppl. a., disinˈheriting vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1583Exec. for Treason (1675) 42 The disinheriting of all the Nobility. 1635Earl of Strafford Lett. (1739) I. 471 Those disinherited Princes of the Palatinate. 1777Sheridan Sch. Scand. iv. i, An unforgiving eye, and a confounded disinheriting countenance! 1868Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) II. x. 486 A disinherited and dispossessed chieftain still looked on the land as his own. |