Dryden.
Dis`en*cum"brance (?), n. Freedom or deliverance from encumbrance, or anything burdensome or troublesome. Spectator.
Dis`en*dow" (?), v. t. To deprive of an endowment, as a church. Gladstone.
Dis`en*dow"ment (?), n. The act of depriving of an endowment or endowments.
[The] disendowment of the Irish Church.
G. B. Smith.
Dis`en*fran"chise (?), v. t. To disfranchise; to deprive of the rights of a citizen. -- Dis`en*fran"chise*ment (#), n.
Dis`en*gage" (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disengaged (#); p. pr. & vb. n. Disengaging.] [Pref. dis- + engage: cf. F. désengager.] To release from that with which anything is engaged, engrossed, involved, or entangled; to extricate; to detach; to set free; to liberate; to clear; as, to disengage one from a party, from broils and controversies, from an oath, promise, or occupation; to disengage the affections a favorite pursuit, the mind from study.
To disengage him and the kingdom, great sums were to be borrowed.
Milton.
Caloric and light must be disengaged during the process.
Transl. of Lavoisier.
Syn. -- To liberate; free; loose; extricate; clear; disentangle; detach; withdraw; wean.
Dis`en*gage", v. i. To release one's self; to become detached; to free one's self.
From a friends's grave how soon we disengage!
Young.
Dis`en*gaged" (?), a. Not engaged; free from engagement; at leisure; free from occupation or care; vacant. -- Dis`en*ga"ged*ness (#), n.
Dis`en*gage"ment (?), n. [Pref. dis- + engagement: cf. F. désengagement.] 1. The act of disengaging or setting free, or the state of being disengaged.
It is easy to render this disengagement of caloric and light evident to the senses.
Transl. of Lavoisier.
A disengagement from earthly trammels.
Sir W. Jones.