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Definition of Disendowments
1. disendowment [n] - See also: disendowment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disendowments
Literary usage of Disendowments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Contemporary Review (1870)
"... the lesson "sic vos non vobis," taught by repeated disendowments, is hardly
likely to encourage liberality for the future ; tho ecclesiastical bees may ..."
2. Palmer's Index to "The Times" NewspaperTimes (London, England) (1874)
"... 20 / 9 d • Studs, 5 in 11 a1 Insurance Law, 18 то 11 d Irish Appeals, 8 a 9 <•
disendowments, 23 m 9 « Education Board, 2 j 9 4 Judicial Appointments, ..."
3. How to Work with the Microscope by Lionel Smith Beale (1880)
"... the philosophy of the past attribute them to exceptional mental defects and
disendowments such as distinguished from most of their contemporaries, ..."
4. The Irish Quarterly Review (1856)
"... it regards the State, by means of indiscriminate endowments, you should
accomplish it by means of impartial disendowments. (Loud cries of "Hear, hear. ..."
5. The approaching end of the age viewed in the light of history, prophecy and by Henry Grattan Guinness (1882)
"... truth and effort in the Protestant Church, and the consequent increase of
missionary effort; the separations of Church and State, and the disendowments ..."
6. Reminiscences of Twelve Years' Residence in Tasmania and New South Wales by Thomas Atkins (1869)
"In regard to the operation of disendowments of ecclesiastical establishments of
an exclusive character in Australia and in Canada, I will now mention the ..."
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