▪ I. disherison, n.
(dɪsˈhɛrɪzən)
Forms: α. 3–4 desertison, -tesoun, diserteisoun, 4–5 disheriteson, -itison, -etison, -yteson, desheryteson. β. 5– disherison.
[orig. disheriteson, a. OF. des(h)eriteisun, -eison, n. of action from des(h)eriter to disherit. (The full L. type was *dishērēditātiōn-em: the syllable ed was dropped in OF., the t before s in English.)]
The action of depriving of, or cutting off from, an inheritance; disinheritance.
| c 1290 Beket 1836 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 159 Þat it..were..with on-riȝte and a-ȝein lawe In desertison of mine churche to costome i-drawe. c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 214 To him and his heyres grete disheriteson. 1340 Ayenb. 48 Desertesoun of eyr and ualse mariages. 1399 Rolls of Parlt. III. 451/2 Forfaitures of heritages, and disheretisons. 1491 Act 7 Hen. VII, c. 18 The utter disheriteson of your seid Suppliant. 1495 Act 11 Hen. VII, c. 35. §9 To the hurte prejudice nor disherison of the seid George or of his heires. 1523 Act 14–15 Hen. VIII, c. 13 The saide hauen is..likely to be lost for euer, to the kynges disherison, and hurte of the common welth. 1607 Cowell Interpr. s.v. Contra formam collationis, The Abbot..hath made a feofment..to the disherison of the house or church. 1750 Carte Hist. Eng. II. 291 Pardoning them all as to life, limb, imprisonment and disherison. 1844 Williams Real Prop. (1879) 67 To prevent improvident alienations..of landed estates, by..dying persons, to the disherison of their lawful heirs. |
▪ II. † disˈherison, v. Obs. rare—1.
[f. prec. n.]
trans. To disinherit.
| 1654 Gayton Pleas. Notes iv. 212 To defraud rav'nous this expectant of his hopes, and to disherison his malignant issue. |