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Definition of Disarmed
1. a. Deprived of arms.
Definition of Disarmed
1. Verb. (past of disarm) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Disarmed
1. disarm [v] - See also: disarm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disarmed
Literary usage of Disarmed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"CUPID disarmed. TO THE PRINCESS D'AUVERGNE. ... BACCHUS disarmed. TO MRS.
LAURA DILLON, NOW LADY FALKLAND. BACCHUS to arms! the enemy's at hand, ..."
2. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1860)
"... has been aiding and abetting the cursed plans of a tyrannical ruler, and an
abandoned ministry, should be disarmed and rendered as incapable as possible ..."
3. The Life of Petrarch: Collected from Memoires Pour la Vie de Petrarch by Dobson (Susannah) (1807)
"They made the emperor presents, but exacted that he should not enter Milan ; and
that the troops that followed him should be disarmed. ..."
4. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"... scene of action,Windham volunteered to keep open the lines of communication
if given the services of some of the disarmed regiments of the Bengal army. ..."
5. The life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1883)
"Narrative continued—Insolence of three of the Englishmen to the Spaniards—They
are disarmed and brought to order—A great body ol savages land upon the ..."
6. The Confessions of an English Opium-eater by Thomas De Quincey (1913)
"Just so helpless did I feel, disarmed into just the same languishing impotence
to face (or make an effort at facing) the difficulty before me, ..."
7. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1909)
"... of winter in the Jura Mountains, Bourbaki had no choice but to cross the
frontier, within which on February 2 over 80000 men were disarmed by the Swiss. ..."
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