dissettlement
English
Etymology
dis- + settlement
Noun
dissettlement (plural dissettlements)
- (archaic) The act of unsettling, or the state of being unsettled.
- 1677, Andrew Marvell, An Account of the Growth of Popery and Arbitrary Government in England
- Never was so much sense contained in so few words. No conveyancer could ever in more compendious or binding terms have drawn a dissettlement of the whole birth-right of England.
- 1677, Andrew Marvell, An Account of the Growth of Popery and Arbitrary Government in England
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for dissettlement in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)