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Definition of Disafforest
1. Verb. Remove the trees from. "The landscape was deforested by the enemy attacks"
Generic synonyms: Clear
Derivative terms: Deforestation, Deforestation, Disforestation
Definition of Disafforest
1. v. t. To reduce from the privileges of a forest to the state of common ground; to exempt from forest laws.
Definition of Disafforest
1. Verb. To deforest ¹
2. Verb. (UK legal) To change the status of land from that of a forest to ordinary land ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disafforest
Literary usage of Disafforest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the Forest Or Chace, Known by the Name of Cranborn Chace by William WEST (1816)
"This indifference respecting the disafforest at kms, combining with the earl's
influence, we may, therefore, be the leu surprised at a measure ensuing, ..."
2. Studies and Notes Supplementary to Stubbs' Constitutional History Down to by Charles Petit-Dutaillis, Georges Lefebvre (1915)
"... dated March and May 1204, which disafforest the New Forest of Staffordshire,
the Forest of Brewood in Shropshire, nearly all Cornwall and Devon, ..."
3. The Judicial Dictionary, of Words and Phrases Judicially Interpreted: To by Frederick Stroud (1903)
"To disafforest is to deprive a FOREST of its peculiar character and privileges.
Vh. 4 Encyc. 265. DISAGREEABLE. —A Boys' School is likely to cause a ..."
4. The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine by Edward Hungerford Goddard (1884)
"It was'accordingly determined, first, to ascertain what additions had been made :
then, to disafforest such parts and reduce the forests to their original ..."
5. A Perambulation of the Antient and Royal Forest of Dartmoor and the Venville by Samuel Rowe (1896)
"The great Charter of John, promulgated 1215, contained a promise to disafforest
all forests of recent creation, and in that year writs were issued to the ..."
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