Discommon

Quick meaning: Discommon is a verb meaning To exclude from using a commonable resource, such as land.

Meaning

To exclude from using a commonable resource, such as land.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, UK, Oxford and Cambridge universities, historical) To deprive of the right to deal with undergraduates.
2. (historical, UK) To deprive of the privilege of citizenship of a town or city.
3. (historical, law) To deprive (lands etc.) of commonable quality, by enclosing or appropriating.

Example Sentences

Whiles thou discommonest thy neighbours keyne, And warn'st that none feed on thy field saue thine;."

[…]acres had already been discommoned – that is, they were no longer available to tenants, cottagers and freeholders[…]

[…] persons violating the above statute are liable to a fine for the first offence, and to be discommoned for the second.

Let them be separated, let not me separate myself; Let the wicked be discommon'd, not the godly, for the godly are in the right, and may stand in it as a man at his own table in his own house, or in his own ground;

Word Forms

• discommons
• discommoning
• discommoned

Synonyms for discommon

Depending on context, synonyms include discommons.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include uncity, decitizenize, disenfranchise, decitizenise, dispatch, disfranchise.

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