Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disestablish \Dis`es*tab"lish\, v. t.
To unsettle; to break up (anything established); to deprive,
as a church, of its connection with the state.
--M. Arnold.
Wiktionary
vb. To deprive (an established church) of its official status.
WordNet
v. deprive (an established church) of its status
Usage examples of "disestablish".
Having courteously deplored the necessity brought about by a new age virtually to disestablish the Royal Navy and reduce the Army, the suggestion was put forward that the time had come to combine all three Services in a Royal Defence Force.
He of course had been mistaken to give in to the brass and disestablish the Office of Strategic Services.
There, they were told, they would board a Naval Air Transport Command Douglas R5D, which would depart at 1400, and after several inter-mediate stops-Osaka, Kobe, and Sasebo-would deposit them at K-l Airfield, Pusan, South Korea, where they would be met by a Marine liaison officer who would get them to the First Marine Brigade (Provisional), where Aug9-2 would be disestablished, and they would be as-signed billets in the brigade according to the needs of the brigade at the moment.
He knew how the Church of England should be disestablished and recomposed.
No church got to be the established one, but you sure knew which ones were way more disestablished than others.
Redmoat--a corruption of Round Moat-- was formerly a priory, disestablished by the eighth Henry in 1536.