discommon

verb

1. To deprive of the privilege of citizenship of a town or city.

   historical

   Let us not leave our fellowship, and estrange our selves from Gods people[…]To be discommoned a Town, or for a Citizen to be banished a city, is a great evill: But to be an exile from Gods city, and discommoned [i.e. excommunicated] from the communion of Saints, this is lamentable indeed.

2. To deprive (lands etc.) of commonable quality, by enclosing or appropriating.

   historical

   She saw in front of her a two-storey house, standing back from the gravel pathway, on the edge of a triangular piece of turf which represented, no doubt, a more extensive village green, now discommoned and taken in by the private dwellings scattered around.

3. To exclude from using a commonable resource, such as land.

   I know we may by way of admonition, before hand, tell them of the danger, and by way of perswasion presse them better to prepare themselves: but wee may not for their sakes discommon our selves from the table of the Lord .

4. To deprive of the right to deal with undergraduates.

   historical, transitive

   […] persons violating the above statute are liable to a fine for the first offence, and to be discommoned for the second.

Where it comes from

From Middle English discomyned, discomynned, dyscomynyd (participle); equivalent to dis- + common.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry discommon (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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