disafforest

English

Etymology

From Middle English disafforeten, from Anglo-Norman disaforester and its probable etymon Latin disafforestō.[1] By surface analysis, dis- +‎ afforest.

Verb

disafforest (third-person singular simple present disafforests, present participle disafforesting, simple past and past participle disafforested)

  1. To deforest.
  2. (UK, law) To change the status of land from that of a forest to ordinary land.
    Synonym: deafforest
    • 1760, Edmund Burke, “An Essay towards an Abridgment of the English History. […]”, in [Walker King], editor, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, new edition, volume X, London: […] [R. Gilbert] for C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […], published 1826, →OCLC, book III, page 534:
      The Charter of the Forests had for its object the disafforesting several of those tracts; the prevention of future afforestings: the mitigation and ascertainment of the punishments for breaches of the Forest Law.

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ “disafforest, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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