discase

verb — 2 senses

discase

verb

Etymology From dis- + case.

1

Archaic To strip; to undress (remove cclothes)

  • I will discase me, and myself present, As I was sometime Milan.1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
2

Archaic To remove; to lay bare

  • discasing the hearts of all the families within their sphere of influence1809, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Friend:

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