disally
verb/dɪsəˈlaɪ/ · /dɪsˈælaɪ/
Etymology From dis- + ally: compare French désallier.
1
Archaic To separate
- chicken-pox and small-pox[…]disallying the two diseases. Yet since that day there have never been wanting those who have disputed the validity of the distinction1868, Sir John Russell Reynolds, A System of Medicine:
- As one on earth disfleshed and disallied From breath or blood corruptible1865, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Atalanta in Calydon (poem):
2
Archaic to break off or cancel
- Nor both ſo looſly diſally'd Thir nuptials,1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 63: