dispurpose

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English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ purpose.

Verb

dispurpose (third-person singular simple present dispurposes, present participle dispurposing, simple past and past participle dispurposed)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To dissuade; to frustrate.
    • 1607, Thomas Tomkins, Lingua:
      So shee, but in a contrary manner, seeing her former plots dispurposed, sends me to an old Witch called Acrasia, to help to wreake her spight upon the Senses

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “dispurpose”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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