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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

disattire en · VERB

Etymology

From dis- + attire: compare Old French desatirier.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To undress.
    • There he was welcom'd of that honeſt ſyre, And of his aged Beldame homely well; Who him beſought himſelfe to diſattyre, And reſt himſelfe, till ſupper time befell. 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, page 470:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
disattired Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
disattired Tense=Past lexicographic
disattires Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
disattiring Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic