disyoke

English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ yoke.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊk

Verb

disyoke (third-person singular simple present disyokes, present participle disyoking, simple past and past participle disyoked)

1. (transitive, poetic) To free (someone or something) from a yoke; to disjoin, to unyoke.
   • 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Part II”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 30:

     Deep, indeed, / Their debt of thanks to her who first had dared / To leap the rotten pales of prejudice, / Disyoke their necks from custom, and assert / None lordlier than themselves but that which made / Woman and man.

   • 1875, Robert Browning, “Herakles”, in Aristophanes’ Apology […], London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 319:

     O me, my wife, my boys— / And—O myself, how, miserably moved, / Am I disyoked now from both boys and wife!

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “disyoke”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)