DISCOMMON

Etymology

Verb

discommon (third-person singular simple present discommons, present participle discommoning, simple past and past participle discommoned)

To deprive of the right of common.

To deprive of privileges.

(legal) To deprive (lands etc.) of commonable quality, by enclosing or appropriating.

(transitive, UK, Oxford and Cambridge universities, historical) To deprive of the right to deal with undergraduates.

Source: Wiktionary


Dis*com"mon, v. t.

1. To deprive of the right of common. [R.] Bp. Hall.

2. To deprive of privileges. [R.] T. Warton.

3. (Law)

Definition: To deprive of commonable quality, as lands, by inclosing or appropriating. Burrill.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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