discommission

English

Etymology

dis- +‎ commission

Verb

discommission (third-person singular simple present discommissions, present participle discommissioning, simple past and past participle discommissioned)

1. (transitive) To deprive of a commission or trust.
   • 1659, John Milton, letter to a friend concerning the ruptures of the Commonwealth

     discommissioning nine great officers in the army

   • a. 1645, William Laud, autobiography

     I shall take that for proof enough, and proceed to discommission your printer, and suppress his press

Related terms

• decommission

References

“discommission”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.