disally

English

Etymology

dis- + ally: compare French désallier.

Verb

disally (third-person singular simple present disallies, present participle disallying, simple past and past participle disallied)

  1. (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
  2. (archaic) to break off or cancel

References

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