Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To disinherit.

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

  • transitive verb obsolete To disinherit; to cut off, or detain, from the possession or enjoyment of an inheritance.

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  • verb obsolete To disinherit.

Etymologies

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From Old French desheriter, from Vulgar Latin *desheretāre, from Latin dis- + hērēditāre.

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  • "I am, said she, a gentlewoman that am disherited, which was sometime the richest woman of the world. Damosel, said Sir Percivale, who hath disherited you? for I have great pity of you."

    - Thomas Malory, 'The Holy Grail'.

    September 10, 2009