discommission
English
Etymology
dis- + commission
Verb
discommission (third-person singular simple present discommissions, present participle discommissioning, simple past and past participle discommissioned)
- (transitive) To deprive of a commission or trust.
- 1659, John Milton, letter to a friend concerning the ruptures of the Commonwealth
- a. 1645, William Laud, autobiography
- I shall take that for proof enough, and proceed to discommission your printer, and suppress his press
Related terms
- decommission
References
discommission in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913