disendow

dis·en·dow

(dĭs′ĕn-dou′)

tr.v. dis·en·dowed, dis·en·dow·ing, dis·en·dows

To deprive of financial endowment: disendowed the national church.

dis′en·dow′er n.

dis′en·dow′ment n.

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disendow

(ˌdɪsɪnˈdaʊ)

(tr) to take away an endowment from

ˌdisenˈdower n

ˌdisenˈdowment n

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disendow

Past participle: disendowed
Gerund: disendowing

Imperative
disendow
disendow

Present
I disendow
you disendow
he/she/it disendows
we disendow
you disendow
they disendow

Preterite
I disendowed
you disendowed
he/she/it disendowed
we disendowed
you disendowed
they disendowed

Present Continuous
I am disendowing
you are disendowing
he/she/it is disendowing
we are disendowing
you are disendowing
they are disendowing

Present Perfect
I have disendowed
you have disendowed
he/she/it has disendowed
we have disendowed
you have disendowed
they have disendowed

Past Continuous
I was disendowing
you were disendowing
he/she/it was disendowing
we were disendowing
you were disendowing
they were disendowing

Past Perfect
I had disendowed
you had disendowed
he/she/it had disendowed
we had disendowed
you had disendowed
they had disendowed

Future
I will disendow
you will disendow
he/she/it will disendow
we will disendow
you will disendow
they will disendow

Future Perfect
I will have disendowed
you will have disendowed
he/she/it will have disendowed
we will have disendowed
you will have disendowed
they will have disendowed

Future Continuous
I will be disendowing
you will be disendowing
he/she/it will be disendowing
we will be disendowing
you will be disendowing
they will be disendowing

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been disendowing
you have been disendowing
he/she/it has been disendowing
we have been disendowing
you have been disendowing
they have been disendowing

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been disendowing
you will have been disendowing
he/she/it will have been disendowing
we will have been disendowing
you will have been disendowing
they will have been disendowing

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been disendowing
you had been disendowing
he/she/it had been disendowing
we had been disendowing
you had been disendowing
they had been disendowing

Conditional
I would disendow
you would disendow
he/she/it would disendow
we would disendow
you would disendow
they would disendow

Past Conditional
I would have disendowed
you would have disendowed
he/she/it would have disendowed
we would have disendowed
you would have disendowed
they would have disendowed

Mentioned in ?

disendowment

References in periodicals archive ?

Lollards, to remake a corrupt church kingdom-wide, even to disendow it, presented a bill to parliament for action, only to be countered later by severe laws passed against them.

Multiple options: the world of the fifteenth-century church

His opponents will argue, he tells us, that if it is lawful for kings to disendow sinful priests in order to avert them from their sins, then it is all the more lawful to remove temporal goods from infidels, thereby turning them from the mortal sin of their infidelity.

John Wyclif: Christian patience in a time of war

antichrist: 'the curses of popes are the blessings of God' (97)), prelacy, priests, and sects (monks, friars, canons, and the pope and his clerks, all beset by avarice), lords and kings ('knights savour the gospel and want to read it in English' (157)), dominion, temporalities ('Lords have a duty to disendow, just as Christ cleansed the temple' (167)), and persecution.