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单词 dismail
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dismailv.

Etymology: < Old French desmaille-r, < des- , dis- prefix 1d + maille mail n.3, armour; compare Italian dismagliare, obsolete Spanish desmallar.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: disˈmail.
archaic.
transitive. To divest of mail or armour; to break or strip the mail off.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > of armour: protect [verb (transitive)] > divest of armour
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unarmc1386
undighta1400
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unharnessa1500
devest1582
unbelt1815
1485 W. Caxton tr. Thystorye & Lyf Charles the Grete sig. diij/2 Hys helme was desmaylled & broken.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin xiv. 207 Thei perced haubrekes, and dismailed, and many ther were throwen to grounde.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. vi. sig. R6 Their mightie strokes their haberieons dismayld.
1848 J. A. Carlyle tr. Dante Inferno 353 O thou..who with thy fingers dismailest thyself.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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