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Definition of Disendowed
1. disendow [v] - See also: disendow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disendowed
Literary usage of Disendowed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"well as built by the munificence of wealthy Presbyterians— which is about to be
disendowed in common with the other religious communities of Ireland. ..."
2. The Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, K. G., and His Times by Alexander Charles Ewald (1882)
"Mr. Sinclair Aytoun proposed a resolution, that when " the Anglican Church iu
Ireland is disestablished and disendowed the grant to Maynooth and the ..."
3. The Miscellany of the New Spalding Club by Alexander Macdonald Munro, David Littlejohn, Alexander Emslie Smith (1908)
"... their congregations were devotedly attached to the Episcopal Communion, and,
although the Church had in 1689 been disestablished and disendowed, ..."
4. Notes from My Journal when Speaker of the House of Commons by John Evelyn Denison Ossington (1900)
"That it must be disendowed. That religious equality must be established. 2yd March,
1868.—Mr. Gladstone placed on the Table the terms of his notice about ..."
5. ... The French Revolution by Hippolyte Taine (1897)
"Uncompensated suppression of tithes.—Confiscation of ecclesiastical possessions.—Effect
on the Treasury and on disendowed ..."
6. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1879)
"If the Church were disendowed, as many of our opponents wish, then, as the Bishop
of Lincoln puts it, " the priesthood would be pauperised, ..."
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