disallow

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The two whose deaths it was impossible to disallow, as their mangled bodies gave evidence thereof, were foully butchered by these long-suffering Christians.

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  1. transitive verb To refuse to allow: "[The government] disallowed his aging and dying parents any reunion with their only child” (John Simon).
  2. transitive verb To reject as invalid, untrue, or improper.

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  • AEtat 29 That in this justly-celebrated poem may be found a few rhymes[1] which the critical precision of English prosody at this day would disallow, cannot be denied; but with this small imperfection, which in the general blaze of its excellence is not perceived, till the mind has subsided into cool attention, it is, undoubtedly, one of the noblest productions in our language, both for sentiment and expression. —  Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1
  • “Alas, of all the meat products we offer here at Canyon Con Carne, the only one we disallow is spam.” He smirked slightly. —  GUDMagazineIssue0::Spring2007
  • One thing the WAC could do is disallow scheduling games outside of the league in October and November; it causes a ripple effect of complications. —  Starbulletin Headlines
  • This will quickly open the entire ebola research sector in all collaborating countries and disallow any patenting. —  Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community
  • I have seen quite a few sites go down some because of server issues, others because they forgot to pay a hosting bill, others they accidentially disallow the entire site in robots. txt and I can't say most of these sites have risen above their previous positions. —  Search Engine Roundtable
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English disallowen, from Old French desalouer, to reprimand : des-, dis- + alouer, to approve; see allow.

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  1. from Middle English disalowen, from Old French desalouer, desalower, desaloer, from Middle Latin disallocare, mixed with *disallaudare, written (after Old French) disaloudare, disallow, from Latin dis- privative + Middle Latin allocare, assign, allow, Latin allaudare, praise, Middle Latin approve, allow, later Old French alouer, allow: see dis-and allow, allow.
 

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