单词 | discommon |
释义 | discommonv. Now historical. 1. To cut off from the membership of a community. a. transitive. To deprive of citizenship; to disfranchise. rare after 17th cent. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > exclusion from society > exclude from society [verb (transitive)] > exclude from membership discommonc1450 discommunec1571 unmember1658 to read out1865 society > law > legal right > withdrawal or loss of legal rights > take away a right [verb (transitive)] > deprive of rights of citizen disfranchise1467 disnatural1588 discommona1600 forjure1647 unnaturalize1662 disenfranchise1664 disnaturalize1704 denaturalize1816 c1450 Assembly Bk. Norwich Guild of St. George in Middle Eng. Dict. at Discomined Yf hit happe that any..othir Citezen and brother of the seid Gyld be discharget of his aldermanschep or put out of the seid comyne councell or dyscomynyd ayen his wyll. 1478 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 303 In opyn Court, the Mayer and baylleffes..declared the said persones nott discomened nor disfraunchesid. 1588 L. Andrewes 96 Serm. (1843) V. 41 Every man doeth what in him lieth to discommon communities. a1600 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie (1648) viii. sig. T3 What though a man being severed by Excommunication from the Church, be not thereby deprived of freedom in the city, or being there discommoned, is therefore forthwith..excluded the Church? 1656 R. Vines Treat. Lords-supper (1677) 230 Ground to dis-common, or dis-franchize a reputed member. 2002 M. Hicks Eng. Polit. Culture in 15th Cent. 121 In 1439 they [sc. the Irish] were excluded from Bristol's corporation and the hopper's gild; they were re-admitted and discommoned in 1455. ΚΠ 1586 Praise of Musicke vi. 77 By a commission onely of Sic volumus, Sic iubemus, to discommon that which is the principall [music]. 1647 T. Fuller Good Thoughts in Worse Times iv. iii. 138 Must I be discommoned from my Husbands Devotion? ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > excommunication > excommunicate [verb (transitive)] waryc725 cursec1050 amanseOE accurselOE forcurse1154 mansec1175 ban1303 sequester1395 maledighta1400 anathematize?1473 excommune1483 excommenge1502 excommunicate1526 precide1529 aban1565 anathemize1585 malison1588 consecrate1589 inknot1611 shammatize1613 anathemate1615 unchurcha1620 innodate1630 discommon1639 to swear at ——1680 devote1749 maledict1780 comminate1801 fulminate1806 imban1807 dischurch1990 1639 R. Abbot Triall Church-forsakers xi. 117 Wee may not for their sakes discommon our selves from the table of the Lord. 1657 W. Morice Coena quasi Κοινὴ xiii. 179 This will be extra aleas, in respect to any defence of their way, who discommon men from the Sacrement. 2. British. a. transitive. At the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge: to ban (a tradesman) from trading with or supplying goods to the undergraduates. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > [verb (transitive)] > impede, restrict, or suspend trade > deprive privilege of student dealing discommon1530 discommune1677 discommons1823 discommonize1886 1530 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 80 The hedds of the Unyversite..dyscoumenyd hym, and commaunded all the mansebylls, cooks, and all others of the Unyversite that they shulde nother bye nor sell wt hym. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iii. 86 A civil penalty (equivalent to the Universities discommoning a Townsman in Cambridg). ?1690 Case City Oxf. 2 The University doth pretend to have a Power to Discommon Citizens at their pleasure. 1762 Gentleman's Mag. (1806) Feb. 91/2 An action depending in the vice-chancellor's court at Oxford against a tradesman of that place, was determined, when the defendant was publickly discommoned. 1858 J. Lang Will He marry Her? xv. 122 ‘Know you, sirrah,’ said the Master, ‘that if we think proper, we can discommon Mr. Jordan [sc. the keeper of a livery stable], and drive him from the town?’ 1908 Law Mag. & Rev. May 270 The statutes of the now dissolved Hertford discommoned any tradesman who allowed an undergraduate member of the college to obtain credit for more than five shillings. 2006 B. le Vay Eccentric Cambr. i. 16 In 1492..the university gained the power of discommoning townsmen, that is banning them from supplying the university with commons—foodstuffs, etc. b. transitive. Oxford University and Cambridge University. To deprive (a student) of commons (commons n. 5c) in a college. Also: (at the University of Oxford) to expel from college. Cf. discommons v. 2. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ society > education > educational administration > university administration > [verb (transitive)] > allowances or depriving of size1598 discommon1727 discommons1856 1727 Magna Britannia IV. 289/1 As to the Scholars they either discommoned them, or whipped them. 1825 C. M. Westmacott Eng. Spy I. 167 I was instantly expelled college, discommoned. 1909 Living Age 23 Oct. 221/2 ‘They discommoned you? the brutes!’ ‘They sent me down, man. Aye, in my last year too.’ 1989 T. Mayer T. Starkey & Commonw. (2002) i. 29 Baynthorpe was discommoned..for failure to progress academically. 3. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > withdrawal or loss of legal rights > take away a right [verb (transitive)] > deprive of other specific rights discommon1598 dispauper1631 dismarket1878 1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. v. iii. 74 Whiles thou discommonest thy neighbours keyne, And warn'st that none feed on thy field. b. transitive. To deprive of the character of a common (common n.1 3); to enclose (common land). Also in figurative contexts. Now rare. ΚΠ 1754 tr. L. J. Plumard de Dangeul Remarks France & Great-Brit. 71 The forrests..could not be discommoned [Fr. on n'a pû dénaturer] but by virtue of acts of Parliament. 1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Dis-common, to appropriate common land; to separate and inclose common. Cowel. 1865 J. R. Lowell New Eng. Two Cent. Ago in Prose Wks. (1890) II. 76 To develop the latent possibilities of English law and English character, by clearing away the fences by which the abuse of the one was gradually discommoning the other from the broad fields of natural right. 1896 Times 13 Mar. 6/3 Did this bill propose to discommon a metropolitan common? 1993 J. M. Neeson Commoners (1996) i. iii. 102 The procedure required an agreement..to discommon and to set up rights of way to the closes. Derivatives disˈcommoned adj. ΚΠ a1695 A. Wood Hist. & Antiq. Univ. Oxf. (1792) II. i. 309 The discommoned persons were freed and restored to their former state. 1864 J. H. Newman Apologia 173 I had been posted up by the marshal on the buttery hatch of every College of my University, after the manner of discommoned pastry-cooks. 2007 J. Miller Cities Divided v. 112 Once the ‘discommoned’ four had been reinstated, the city would give all reasonable satisfaction. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.c1450 |
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