Word Meanings - DEGARNISHMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of depriving, as of furniture, apparatus, or a garrison.

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• DEPRIVEMENT
  Deprivation.
• DEPRIVER
  One who, or that which, deprives.
• DEPRIVATION
  the taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity. Note: Deprivation may be a beneficio or ab officio; the first takes away the living, the last degrades and deposes from the order. (more info) 1. The act of
• FURNITURE
  A mixed or compound stop in an organ; -- sometimes called mixture. (more info) 1. That with which anything is furnished or supplied; supplies; outfit; equipment. The form and all the furniture of the earth. Tillotson. The thoughts which make the
• DEPRIVE
  1. To take away; to put an end; to destroy. 'Tis honor to deprive dishonored life. Shak. 2. To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of. God hath
• APPARATUS
  A collection of organs all of which unite in a common function; as, the respiratory apparatus. (more info) 1. Things provided as means to some end. 2. Hence: A full collection or set of implements, or utensils, for a given duty, experimental or
• DEPRIVABLE
  Capable of being, or liable to be, deprived; liable to be deposed. Kings of Spain . . . deprivable for their tyrannies. Prynne.
• GARRISON
  A body of troops stationed in a fort or fortified town. A fortified place, in which troops are quartered for its security. In garrison, in the condition of a garrison; doing duty in a fort or as one of a garrison.
• OVERGARRISON
  To garrison to excess.
• ENGARRISON
  To garrison; to put in garrison, or to protect by a garrison. Bp. Hall.
• BUFFING APPARATUS
  See 1
• INDEPRIVABLE
  Incapable of being deprived, or of being taken away.
• DISGARRISON
  To deprive of a garrison. Hewyt.
• DISFURNITURE
  The act of disfurnishing, or the state of being disfurnished.