disattire
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From dis- + attire: compare Old French desatirier.
Verb
[edit]disattire (third-person singular simple present disattires, present participle disattiring, simple past and past participle disattired)
- (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.