disendow

English

Etymology

dis- + endow

Verb

disendow (third-person singular simple present disendows, present participle disendowing, simple past and past participle disendowed)

  1. To deprive of an endowment.
    • 1868, a London rector, letter to William Ewart Gladstone:
      by law established, you cannot disestablish and disendow the Irish Branch without also disestablishing and disendowing the United Church

References

disendow”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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