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Disestablish

verb
1.
Deprive (an established church) of its status.



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"Disestablish" Quotes from Famous Books



... for local colour, for picturesqueness, don't you know. The Church of England's charmingly overgrown with ivy. And besides, they're going to disestablish it. One must make the most of it while it lasts. Tell me—why can you never get decent brioches ...
— Grey Roses • Henry Harland
... of Ireland at this moment with which you have to deal? There is not only the Church which it is proposed to disestablish, but you have the Regium Donum, which, if the Church be disestablished, must necessarily be withdrawn; and you have, if these two things happen, a grant to Maynooth, the Act conferring which must necessarily be repealed. Now, in doing these ...
— Speeches on Questions of Public Policy, Volume 1 • John Bright


Words linked to "Disestablish" :   deprive, church service, church, impoverish


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