The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disburthen \Dis*bur"then\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disburthened; p. pr. & vb. n. Disburthening.] [Cf. Disburden.] To disburden; to relieve of a load. [Archaic]
Usage examples of "disburthening".
Mabel wept bitterly at the ceremony, and she found relief in thus disburthening her sorrow.
But go with speed, And, what thy stores contain, bring forth, and pour Abundance, fit to honour and receive Our heavenly stranger: Well we may afford Our givers their own gifts, and large bestow From large bestowed, where Nature multiplies Her fertile growth, and by disburthening grows More fruitful, which instructs us not to spare.
One of them, in truth—it was he with the blood-stain on his band—seemed, unless his gestures were misunderstood, to hold the parchments in his immediate keeping but was prevented, by his two partners in the mystery, from disburthening himself of the trust.
But the Major’s wife kept her place, and he went away without disburthening himself of his speech.