discommission
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From dis- + commission.
Verb
[edit]discommission (third-person singular simple present discommissions, present participle discommissioning, simple past and past participle discommissioned)
- (transitive) To deprive of a commission or trust.
- 1659, John Milton, letter to a friend concerning the ruptures of the Commonwealth
- discommissioning nine great officers in the army
- a. 1645, William Laud, autobiography
- I shall take that for proof enough, and proceed to discommission your printer, and suppress his press
- 1659, John Milton, letter to a friend concerning the ruptures of the Commonwealth
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]“discommission”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.