Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To diminish the quantity of; lessen.
- To deprive of quantity or metrical value, as a syllable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To diminish the quantity of; to lessen.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete to
diminish ,lessen
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Examples
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'Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend!', he lashes out at Goneril when she demands that he 'disquantity' his retinue of a hundred followers.
Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002
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Up to the moment of its utterance Goneril has done no more than to require him 'a little to disquantity 'and reform his train of knights.
Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth 1893
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