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Disendow

Disendow \Dis`en*dow"\, v. t. To deprive of an endowment, as a church.
--Gladstone.

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disendow

vb. To deprive of an endowment.

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In Italy arose the Fraticelli, a sect of the Franciscan Order, in another of the poverty-embracing movements that periodically tormented the Church by wanting to disendow it.