disincorporate
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From dis- + incorporate.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (verb) IPA(key): /ˌdɪsɪŋˈkɔː(ɹ)pəɹeɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (anjective) IPA(key): /ˌdɪsɪŋˈkɔː(ɹ)pəɹət/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb
[edit]disincorporate (third-person singular simple present disincorporates, present participle disincorporating, simple past and past participle disincorporated)
- To deprive of corporate rights.
- (US) To revoke the charter of an incorporated town or city.
- Four towns in the Quabbin Valley were disincorporated, and their residents relocated, to create a reservoir.
Adjective
[edit]disincorporate (not comparable)
- Separated from, or not included in, a corporation; disincorporated.
- 1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC:
- So as it is a thing of great use well to define , what , and of what latitude those points are , which do make men merely aliens and disincorporate from the church of God
References
[edit]- Chambers's Etymological Dictionary, 1896, p. 130