disattire

English

Etymology

dis- +‎ attire: compare Old French desatirier.

Verb

disattire (third-person singular simple present disattires, present participle disattiring, simple past and past participle disattired)

1. (transitive) To undress.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, page 470:

     There he was welcom'd of that honeſt ſyre,
     And of his aged Beldame homely well;
     Who him beſought himſelfe to diſattyre,
     And reſt himſelfe, till ſupper time befell.

Anagrams

• stiriated