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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: deprive (an established church) of its status

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb Date: 1598 to deprive of an established status; especially to deprive of the status and privileges of an established church • disestablishment noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. 1 deprive (a Church) of State support. 2 depose from an official position. 3 terminate the establishment of. Derivatives: disestablishment n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Disestablish Dis`es*tab"lish, v. t. To unsettle; to break up (anything established); to deprive, as a church, of its connection with the state. --M. Arnold.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(disestablishes, disestablishing, disestablished) To disestablish a church or religion means to take away its official status, so that it is no longer recognized as a national institution. (FORMAL) It would be right to disestablish the church. VERB: V n • disestablishment ...Welsh Anglican disestablishment.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. 1. (Rare.) Abolish, overthrow, annul, discontinue, abrogate, set aside, do away. 2. Deprive of public support, strip of State authority, abolish as a State institution.