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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

dispurpose en · VERB

Etymology

From dis- + purpose.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To dissuade; to frustrate.
    • So shee, but in a contrary manner, seeing her former plots dispurposed, sends me to an old Witch called Acrasia, to help to wreake her spight upon the Senses […] 1607, Thomas Tomkins, Lingua:

Forms

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dispurposed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
dispurposed Tense=Past lexicographic
dispurposing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
dispurposes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic