disman, v.
(dɪsˈmæn)
[f. dis- 7 + man n.]
† 1. trans. To undo as a man; to deprive of what constitutes the man. Obs.
| 1627–47 Feltham Resolves i. xlvii. 149 Man by death is absolutely divided and disman'd. 1633 Earl of Manchester Al Mondo (1636) 162 There is no spectacle..more terrible, than to behold a dying man, to stand by, and see a man dismanned. 1651 N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. ii. i. (1739) 6 All is faint in that man that hath once dismanned himself. |
2. To deprive (a country, etc.) of men.
| 1863 Kinglake Crimea I. xiv. 293 This is why I have chosen to say that France was dismanned. |