† deˈcourt, v. Obs.
[f. de- II. 2 + court n.]
trans. To expel or banish from court.
| c 1610 Sir J. Melvil Mem. (1683) 198 He was accused..and..for a time decourted. 1633 T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter ii. 4 If the king's favourite be forever decourted and banished. 1676 W. Row Contn. Blair's Autobiog. xii. (1848) 462 Middleton is thus decourted and all his places taken from him. |