disquantity, v.
(dɪsˈkwɒntɪtɪ)
[f. dis- 7 a + quantity n.]
1. trans. To lessen in quantity; to diminish.
| 1605 Shakes. Lear i. iv. 270 Be then desir'd By her..A little to disquantity your Traine. 1633 T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter iii. 9 [God] disquantitied his [Gideon's] forces from thirty-two thousand to three hundred. |
2. To deprive of metrical quantity.
| 1866 Lowell Swinburne's Trag. Prose Wks. 1890 II. 130 The Earl of Orford..used to have Statius read aloud to him every night for two hours by a tipsy tradesman..and found some strange mystery of sweetness in the disquantitied syllables. |