disprovide

English

Etymology

dis- +‎ provide

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪspɹəˈvaɪd/

Verb

disprovide (third-person singular simple present disprovides, present participle disproviding, simple past and past participle disprovided)

1. (obsolete, transitive) Not to provide; to fail to provide.
   • 1663, Robert Boyle, “(please specify the page)”, in Some Considerations Touching the Vsefulnesse of Experimental Naturall Philosophy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Hen[ry] Hall printer to the University, for Ric[hard] Davis, →OCLC, part I:

     sea disprovided of sea-charts, and mariner's compasses

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “disprovide”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)