Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To deprive of a garrison.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To deprive of a garrison.

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  • verb To deprive of a garrison.

Etymologies

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dis- +‎ garrison

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Examples

  • We linger our remove from thence till we have some certainty of that business, hoping, that if he concur with the committee of Derby and some others for disgarrison of that place, to have the favour to be admitted to that house, which we the more desire by reason that town is assigned to us for maintenance, which will yield very little, I fear, if it continue still a garrison.

    Three Hundred Years Hence 1836

  • We linger our remove from thence till we have some certainty of that business, hoping, that if he concur with the committee of Derby and some others for disgarrison of that place, to have the favour to be admitted to that house, which we the more desire by reason that town is assigned to us for maintenance, which will yield very little, I fear, if it continue still a garrison.

    The Concealed Fansyes: A Play by Lady Jane Cavendish and Lady Elizabeth Brackley Jane Cheyne 1644

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