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Definition of Disfrock
1. v. t. To unfrock.
Definition of Disfrock
1. Verb. To remove from status as a member of a clergy; to unfrock. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Disfrock
1. to unfrock [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: unfrock
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disfrock
Literary usage of Disfrock
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. England in the Age of Wycliffe by George Macaulay Trevelyan (1920)
"If a King intends to disfrock all the monks of his kingdom, he must find reasons
that will apply to all. The charge of vice could never, we will be ready to ..."
2. The Papers of a Critic: Selected from the Writings of the Late Charles by Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke (1875)
"Why, again, should this emigrant for conscience sake disfrock himself, as Sir
David Brewster suggests, so soon as he had reached his selected country ? ..."
3. Epistolae Ho-Elianae: The Familiar Letters of James Howell, Historiographer by James Howell, Joseph Jacobs (1892)
"Pope Zachary did not exactly excommunicate him, but threatened to disfrock him
if he held there were men on the other side (Dict. ..."
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