Word Meanings - DISWONT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To deprive of wonted usage; to disaccustom. Bp. Hall.

Related words: (words related to DISWONT)

• DEPRIVEMENT
  Deprivation.
• WONTED
  Accustomed; customary; usual. Again his wonted weapon proved. Spenser. Like an old piece of furniture left alone in its wonted corner. Sir W. Scott. She was wonted to the place, and would not remove. L'Estrange.
• DISACCUSTOM
  To destroy the force of habit in; to wean from a custom. Johnson.
• USAGE
  1. The act of using; mode of using or treating; treatment; conduct with respect to a person or a thing; as, good usage; ill usage; hard usage. My brother Is prisoner to the bishop here, at whose hands He hath good usage and great liberty. Shak.
• WONT
  Using or doing customarily; accustomed; habituated; used. "As he was wont to go." Chaucer. If the ox were wont to push with his horn. Ex. xxi. 29. (more info) akin to D. wonen, OS. wun, OHG, won, G. wohnen, and AS. wund, gewuna, custom, habit;
• DEPRIVER
  One who, or that which, deprives.
• WONTEDNESS
  The quality or state of being accustomed. Eikon Basilike.
• USAGER
  One who has the use of anything in trust for another. Daniel.
• WONTLESS
  Unaccustomed. Spenser.
• DEPRIVE
  1. To take away; to put an end; to destroy. 'Tis honor to deprive dishonored life. Shak. 2. To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of. God hath
• UNWONTED
  1. Not wonted; unaccustomed; unused; not made familiar by practice; as, a child unwonted to strangers. Milton. 2. Uncommon; unusual; infrequent; rare; as, unwonted changes. "Unwonted lights." Byron. -- Un*wont"ed*ly, adv. -- Un*wont"ed*ness, n.
• HOUSAGE
  A fee for keeping goods in a house. Chambers.
• DISWONT
  To deprive of wonted usage; to disaccustom. Bp. Hall.
• DISUSAGE
  Gradual cessation of use or custom; neglect of use; disuse. Hooker.
• SPOUSAGE
  Espousal. Bale.
• ESPOUSAGE
  Espousal. Latimer.
• MISUSAGE
  Bad treatment; abuse. Spenser.
• SAUSAGE
  1. An article of food consisting of meat minced and highly seasoned, and inclosed in a cylindrical case or skin usually made of the prepared intestine of some animal. 2. A saucisson. See Saucisson. Wilhelm.
• UNUSAGE
  Want or lack of usage. Chaucer.
• SUPERPLUSAGE
  Surplusage. "There yet remained a superplusage." Bp. Fell.