单词	disendow
释义	disendow /dɪsɪnˈdaʊ / /dɪsɛnˈdaʊ/ verb [with object] Deprive (someone or something) of an endowment, in particular deprive (a Church) of the property and funds that it receives from the state: the state Church, the Church of Ireland, continued until 1869, when Gladstone disestablished and disendowed it... An Act of Parliament in 1920 disestablished and disendowed the Anglican Church within the Principality. Instead, a different settlement was reached: in effect, the Church in Wales was disendowed at that time. He also took steps to enforce the decrees of 1859 disestablishing and disendowing the church. Derivatives disendowment /ˌdɪsɪnˈdaʊm(ə)nt / noun ... But these were the one-off fruits of the disendowment of the Church (mainly the dissolution of the monasteries), a windfall which was unrepeatable on the same scale. The accompanying disendowment of church funds provided substantial sums for the relief of Irish poverty. From the 1370s onwards, Parliaments frequently complained that the clergy weren't paying their fair share towards the war effort with France - and some demanded disendowment of the clergy.
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