dispurpose

verb

dispurpose

verb

Etymology From dis- + purpose.

1

Obsolete To dissuade; to frustrate.

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 […]1607, Thomas Tomkins, Lingua:

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