dister
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin dis- + terra (“earth, country”); compare (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Spanish and Portuguese desterrar.
Verb
dister (third-person singular simple present disters, present participle disterring, simple past and past participle disterred)
- (obsolete) To banish or drive from a country.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dister”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)