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Definition of Displume
1. Verb. Strip of honors, possessions, or attributes.
Generic synonyms: Despoil, Foray, Loot, Pillage, Plunder, Ransack, Reave, Rifle, Strip
2. Verb. Strip of feathers. "Pluck the capon"
Definition of Displume
1. v. t. To strip of, or as of, a plume, or plumes; to deprive of decoration; to dishonor; to degrade.
Definition of Displume
1. Verb. To deprive of feathers, plumes, awards. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Displume
1. to deplume [v -PLUMED, -PLUMING, -PLUMES] - See also: deplume
Medical Definition of Displume
1. To strip of, or as of, a plume, or plumes; to deprive of decoration; to dishonor; to degrade. "Displumed, degraded, and metamorphosed." (Burke) Origin: Pref. Dis- + plume: cf. OF. Desplumer, F. Deplumer. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Displume
Literary usage of Displume
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Minor Poets of the Caroline Period by George Saintsbury (1905)
"This in Florenza, who foresaw that nought But passions more than common could
have wrought So swift a change, works high ; who, that she might displume ..."
2. Greece: II. Grecian History to the Reign of Peisistratus at Athens by George Grote (1900)
"... on which the Lacedaemonians rested their displume n against Thebes, begin from
a time immediately succeeding the close of the war against Athens, ..."
3. The Monthly Magazine by Richard Phillips (1826)
"The most trifling caprice of a clerk in office, would send any person who happened
to displume him to ..."
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