2. Adjective. Deprived of furniture, accoutrements or belongings; stripped, destitute. ¹
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Definition of Disfurnished
1. disfurnish [v] - See also: disfurnish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disfurnished
Literary usage of Disfurnished
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Report of Some Proceedings on the Commission for the Trial of the Rebels by Michael Foster, Michael Dodson (1809)
"The court was of opinion, that the prosecutor having left his house, and disfurnished
it in the manner before-mentioned, without any settled resolution of ..."
2. A Complete Practical Treatise on Criminal Procedure, Pleading, and Evidence by John Frederick Archbold, John Jervis, William Newland Welsby, Thomas Whitney Waterman (1853)
"Being asked whether, at the time he so disfurnished his house, liu had any
intention of returning to reside there, ho declared that he had not como to any ..."
3. Essays on the Early Period of the French Revolution by John Wilson Croker (1857)
"But in whatever sense he meant to use the ambiguous term, the result to which he
comes is this—that the royal fortress of the Bastille was disfurnished, ..."
4. Military Dictionary: Comprising Technical Definitions; Information on by Henry Lee Scott (1864)
"The elementary tactics of infantry consists in securing its roar and its flanks ;
in never being entirely disfurnished of its fire ; in attacking with the ..."
5. A Treatise on Crimes and Indictable Misdemeanors by William Oldnall Russell (1828)
"Being asked whether, at the time he so disfurnished his house, he had any intention
of returning to reside there, he declared that he had not come to any ..."
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