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Disband   /dɪsbˈænd/   Listen
verb
Disband  v. t.  (past & past part. disbanded; pres. part. disbanding)  
1.
To loose the bands of; to set free; to disunite; to scatter; to disperse; to break up the organization of; especially, to dismiss from military service; as, to disband an army. "They disbanded themselves and returned, every man to his own dwelling."
2.
To divorce. (Obs.) "And therefore... she ought to be disbanded."


Disband  v. i.  To become separated, broken up, dissolved, or scattered; especially, to quit military service by breaking up organization. "When both rocks and all things shall disband." "Human society would in a short space disband."





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... passage, the vacant town of Melitene; and, without consulting the safety of his troops, boldly swam the Euphrates on the back of an elephant. After this unsuccessful campaign, the want of magazines, and perhaps some inroad of the Turks, obliged him to disband or divide his forces; the Romans were left masters of the field, and their general Justinian, advancing to the relief of the Persarmenian rebels, erected his standard on the banks of the Araxes. The great Pompey had formerly halted ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 4 • Edward Gibbon
... into an association called the "Combined Society," the members of which were bound to secrecy by oaths and other solemn pledges. The purpose of the Combined Society became known, and the force of public opinion compelled the members to disband. Some of them ...
— Stories Of Georgia - 1896 • Joel Chandler Harris
... de Marsac on the morrow, nor could I now bring myself to consider it with any degree of interest. I would communicate with Chatellerault to inform him that I accounted my wager lost. I would send him my note of hand, making over to him my Picardy estates, and I would request him to pay off and disband my servants both in Paris and ...
— Bardelys the Magnificent • Rafael Sabatini
... astonished at the moderation of the much-maligned proconsul. Caesar made it clear that he would stand on his rights as to the second consulship; but to withdraw possibilities of seeming to issue a threat, he would disband his entire army if Pompeius would only do the same, or, if preferred, he would retain simply Cisalpine Gaul and Illyria with two legions, until the consular elections were over. In either event it would ...
— A Friend of Caesar - A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. • William Stearns Davis
... the custom to disband during the summer months but the summer of 1914 the Political Equality League opened a class for the purpose of studying all the questions of the day and learning something about speaking extemporaneously. In response ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI • Various


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