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Disherited

disherit \dis*her"it\ (d[i^]s*h[e^]r"[i^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disherited; p. pr. & vb. n. Disheriting.] [F. d['e]sh['e]riter; pref. d['e]s- (L. dis-) + h['e]riter to inherit. See Inherit, and cf. Dusheir, Disinherit.] To disinherit; to cut off, or detain, from the possession or enjoyment of an inheritance. [Obs.]
--Spenser.

Usage examples of "disherited".

I am, said she, a gentlewoman that am disherited, which was sometime the richest woman of the world.

And then he would not suffer me to be any longer in his company, and so drove me from mine heritage, and so disherited me, and he had never pity of me nor of none of my council, nor of my court.

Then she made sorrow and said: Ah, Lord God, wherefore granted ye to hold my land, whereof I should now be disherited without reason and right?

The pride and might and vivid strength of things still fluttered their uneasy flags of spirit, moved disherited wings!

Of stree first ther was leyd ful many a lode, But how the fyr was maked upon highte, Ne eek the names that the trees highte, As, ook, firre, birch, aspe, alder, holm, popeler, Wylugh, elm, plane, assh, box, chasteyn, lynde, laurer, Mapul, thorn, bech, hasel, ew, whippeltre, How they weren fild shal nat be toold for me, Ne how the goddes ronnen up and doun Disherited of hir habitacioun, In whiche they woneden in reste and pees, Nymphes, Fawnes, and Amadrides.