Get Affordable VMs - excellent virtual server hosting


browse words by letter
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
disbanding

more about disbanding

disbanding


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Disband  \Dis*band"\  (?;  see  {Dis-}),  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p. 
  {Disbanded};  p.  pr  &  vb  n.  {Disbanding}.]  [Pref.  dis-  + 
  band:  cf  OF  desbander  F.  d['e]bander,  to  unbind,  unbend. 
  See  {Band},  and  cf  {Disbend},  {Disbind}.] 
  1.  To  loose  the  bands  of  to  set  free  to  disunite;  to 
  scatter;  to  disperse;  to  break  up  the  organization  of 
  especially,  to  dismiss  from  military  service;  as  to 
  disband  an  army. 
 
  They  disbanded  themselves  and  returned,  every  man  to 
  his  own  dwelling.  --Knolles. 
 
  2.  To  divorce.  [Obs.] 
 
  And  therefore  .  .  .  she  ought  to  be  disbanded. 
  --Milton. 




more about disbanding