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disally en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /dɪsˈælaɪ/
• /dɪsəˈlaɪ/

Etymology

From dis- + ally: compare French désallier.

Meanings

1. (archaic) To separate
   • As one on earth disfleshed and disallied From breath or blood corruptible 1865, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Atalanta in Calydon (poem):
   • chicken-pox and small-pox[…]disallying the two diseases. Yet since that day there have never been wanting those who have disputed the validity of the distinction 1868, Sir John Russell Reynolds, A System of Medicine:
2. (archaic) to break off or cancel
   • Nor both ſo looſly diſally'd Thir nuptials, 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 63:

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