disally

English

Etymology

dis- +‎ ally: compare French désallier.

Verb

disally (third-person singular simple present disallies, present participle disallying, simple past and past participle disallied)

1. (archaic) To separate
   • 1868, Sir John Russell Reynolds, A System of Medicine:

     chicken-pox and small-pox […] disallying the two diseases. Yet since that day there have never been wanting those who have disputed the validity of the distinction

   • 1865, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Atalanta in Calydon (poem):

     As one on earth disfleshed and disallied
     From breath or blood corruptible

2. (archaic) to break off or cancel
   • 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 63:

     Nor both ſo looſly diſally'd / Thir nuptials,

References

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