discouple, v.
(dɪsˈkʌp(ə)l)
[a. OF. descupler (12th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), descoupler (Cotgr.) to separate, uncouple, f. des-, dis- 4 + coupler to couple.]
trans. To separate or disunite what is coupled, to uncouple.
| c 1489 Caxton Sonnes of Aymon ix. 241 Now are dys⁓coupled the foure sones of Aymon, for I have slayne Richarde. 1549 Hooper Declar. Ten Commandm. x. Wks. (Parker Soc.) 384 Neither doth the magistrate dissolve that God hath bound, nor discouple that God coupled. 1883 W. S. Dugdale tr. Dante's Purgatorio xxv. 280 Ascending the steps whose narrowness discouples those who mount. |
b. intr. for refl.
| 1599 T. M[oufet] Silkwormes 66 When they die after discoupling. |