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Definition of Disfurnishing
1. disfurnish [v] - See also: disfurnish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disfurnishing
Literary usage of Disfurnishing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ecclesiastical Memorials; Relating Chiefly to Religion, and the Reformation by John Strype (1822)
"The King's gold carried away in such quantities, that it was sensibly felt* to
the great disfurnishing of the realm. Which obliged the King to send forth a ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... the Jesuit, in 1508, " this liberty and lenity will effectuate in 20 days, lo
wit the disfurnishing of the seminaries, ..."
3. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1864)
"I trace her with malicious activity disfurnishing his house in Holborn, and at *
In the Lambeth manuscripts, 936, ..."
4. Tracts and Other Papers Relating Principally to the Origin, Settlement, and by Peter Force (1844)
"... (giuing bond for the same) prouided that it bee not to the disfurnishing of
any such Ship, whereby the Owner or Merchants be endangered for the Ship or ..."
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