disherit
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French desheriter, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Vulgar Latin *desheretō, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin dis- + hērēditō.
Verb
disherit (third-person singular simple present disherits, present participle disheriting, simple past and past participle disherited)
- (obsolete) To disinherit.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xxvij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book IV::
- So there were in the countrey two knyȝtes that were bretheren / and they were called two peryllous knyghtes / the one knyghte hyght syre Edward of the reed castel / the other syr Hue of the reed castel / And these two bretheren had disheryted the lady of the roche of a Baronry of landes by their extorsion