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disquantity

[ dis-kwon-ti-tee ]

verb (used with object)

Obsolete.
disquantitied, disquantitying.
  1. to diminish in quantity; make less.


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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of disquantity1

First recorded in 1595–1605; dis- 1 + quantity
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Up to the moment of its utterance Goneril has done no more than to require him 'a little to disquantity' and reform his train of knights.

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The shame itself doth speak      For instant remedy: be then desir'd      By her, that else will take the thing she begs,      A little to disquantity your train;      And the remainder, that shall still depend,      To be such men as may besort your age,      And know themselves and you.

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Be then desir'd By her, that else will take the thing she begges, A little to disquantity your Traine, And the remainders that shall still depend, To be such men as may besort your Age, Which know themselues, and you    Lear.

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The shame itself doth speak For instant remedy: be, then, desir'd By her that else will take the thing she begs A little to disquantity your train; And the remainder, that shall still depend, To be such men as may besort your age, Which know themselves, and you.

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