dister

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin dis- + terra (earth, country); compare Spanish and Portuguese desterrar.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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dister (third-person singular simple present disters, present participle disterring, simple past and past participle disterred)

  1. (obsolete) To banish or drive from a country.
    • March 1 1621, James Howell, letter to Dr. Francis Mansel
      many thousands were disterred and banished hence to Barbary

References

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dister”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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