disally
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Verb
    
disally (third-person singular simple present disallies, present participle disallying, simple past and past participle disallied)
- (archaic) To separate
- 1868, Sir John Russell Reynolds, A System of Medicine:- chicken-pox and small-pox […] disallying the two diseases. Yet since that day there have never been wanting those who have disputed the validity of the distinction
 
- 1865, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Atalanta in Calydon (poem):- As one on earth disfleshed and disallied
 From breath or blood corruptible
 
 
- (archaic) to break off or cancel
- 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 63:- Nor both ſo looſly diſally'd / Thir nuptials,
 
 
References
    
- “disally”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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