† disquarterv.1
Obsolete. rare.
intransitive. To leave one's quarters.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > logistics > quartering > take up quarters [verb (intransitive)] > leave quarters
disquarter1654
1654 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. Bentivoglio Compl. Hist. Warrs Flanders 65 In their quartering and disquartering, and particularly upon occasion of forrage, there happened almost continually some skirmishes between the soldiers of the two Armies.
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† disquarterv.2
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To halve or divide the quarters of.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eight > [verb (transitive)] > divide into eight
disquarter1632
1632 F. Quarles Divine Fancies (1660) iii. lxxviii. 132 If then, at most, the measur'd life of Man Be counted but a span, Being half'd, and quarter'd, and disquarter'd thus, What, what remains for us?
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