disendow

English

Etymology

dis- + endow

Verb

disendow (third-person singular simple present disendows, present participle disendowing, simple past and past participle disendowed)

  1. To deprive of an endowment.
    • 1868, a London rector, letter to William Ewart Gladstone
      by law established, you cannot disestablish and disendow the Irish Branch without also disestablishing and disendowing the United Church

References

disendow in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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