disendowment
nounEtymology From dis- + endowment.
1
Dated The ceasing of endowment or endowments, especially said of the church.
- We, the Irish Protestant clergy, are working very hard to uphold the dear old Church of England in Ireland; and, thank God, our efforts have been wonderfully blest since the disestablishment and disendowment 14 years ago.1886, Gerald Slade, Spare Minutes:
- He denied that the disendowment of the Irish Church would be dangerous to the English Establishment1880, George Barnett Smith, The Life of the Right Honourable William Ewart Gladstone: