Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DIS-AF-FOR'EST
DIS-AF-FIRM'INGDIS-AF-FOR'EST-ED
DIS-AF-FOR'EST, v.t. [dis and afforest.]
To reduce from the privileges of a forest to the state of common ground; to strip of forest laws and their oppressive privileges. By Charter 9 Hen. III many forests were disafforested. – Blackstone.
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