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Definition of Dishouse
1. v. t. To deprive of house or home.
Definition of Dishouse
1. Verb. (transitive) To deprive of house or home. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dishouse
1. to deprive of housing [v DISHOUSED, DISHOUSING, DISHOUSES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dishouse
Literary usage of Dishouse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Secret Memoirs of Princess Lamballe: Being Her Journals, Letters, and by Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh, Catherine Hyde Govion Broglio Solari (1901)
"His papers would have declared the history of every particular, and dishouse,
not so large as one of the offices of his immense noble palace, ..."
2. The Dangers of Municipal Ownership by Robert Percival Porter (1907)
"The more poor they dishouse, the more they make homeless. This is a phase of the
question which affects the social well-being of the poorest section of the ..."
3. On Municipal and National Trading by John Lubbock (1907)
"It would be less tempting if it were called what it is—a policy, not to house,
but to dishouse the poor. Perhaps then it would not be quite so attractive. ..."
4. Journal of the Sanitary Institute by Sanitary Institute (Great Britain) (1898)
"Did he realise what it was to have to dishouse 15000 people? The enormous opposition
that would be engendered by the very fact of issuing notices to quit ..."
5. The Municipal Year Book and Public Utilities Directory by Robert Donald (1903)
"... suit the persons dishouse'd bv tlio operations of the Corporation ' The scheme
will be carried out m sections, so as to minimise the in convenience as ..."
6. Municipal Socialism a Series of Articles Reprinted from the Times. (1902)
"... that unless they fall back on the rates it is practically impossible for them
to rehouse those whom they dishouse ; because, in order to meet all the ..."
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