disendowment

English

Etymology

dis- +‎ endowment

Noun

disendowment (countable and uncountable, plural disendowments)

1. (dated) The ceasing of endowment or endowments, especially said of the church.
   • 1886, Gerald Slade, Spare Minutes:

     We, the Irish Protestant clergy, are working very hard to uphold the dear old Church of England in Ireland; and, thank God, our efforts have been wonderfully blest since the disestablishment and disendowment 14 years ago.

   • 1880, George Barnett Smith, The Life of the Right Honourable William Ewart Gladstone:

     He denied that the disendowment of the Irish Church would be dangerous to the English Establishment

References

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