Definition of Dishouse

1. v. t. To deprive of house or home.

Definition of Dishouse

1. Verb. (transitive) To deprive of house or home. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dishouse

1. to deprive of housing [v DISHOUSED, DISHOUSING, DISHOUSES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dishouse

dishonoured bill
dishonoured bills
dishonourer
dishonourest
dishonoureth
dishonouring
dishonours
dishorn
dishorned
dishorning
dishorns
dishorse
dishorsed
dishorses
dishorsing
dishouse (current term)
dishoused
dishouses
dishousing
dishpan
dishpan fracture
dishpan hands
dishpans
dishrag
dishrags
dishstand
dishstands
dishtowel
dishtowels
dishumour

Literary usage of Dishouse

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Secret Memoirs of Princess Lamballe: Being Her Journals, Letters, and by Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh, Catherine Hyde Govion Broglio Solari (1901)
"His papers would have declared the history of every particular, and dishouse, not so large as one of the offices of his immense noble palace, ..."

2. The Dangers of Municipal Ownership by Robert Percival Porter (1907)
"The more poor they dishouse, the more they make homeless. This is a phase of the question which affects the social well-being of the poorest section of the ..."

3. On Municipal and National Trading by John Lubbock (1907)
"It would be less tempting if it were called what it is—a policy, not to house, but to dishouse the poor. Perhaps then it would not be quite so attractive. ..."

4. Journal of the Sanitary Institute by Sanitary Institute (Great Britain) (1898)
"Did he realise what it was to have to dishouse 15000 people? The enormous opposition that would be engendered by the very fact of issuing notices to quit ..."

5. The Municipal Year Book and Public Utilities Directory by Robert Donald (1903)
"... suit the persons dishouse'd bv tlio operations of the Corporation ' The scheme will be carried out m sections, so as to minimise the in convenience as ..."

6. Municipal Socialism a Series of Articles Reprinted from the Times. (1902)
"... that unless they fall back on the rates it is practically impossible for them to rehouse those whom they dishouse ; because, in order to meet all the ..."

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