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Disafforest

Disafforest Meaning & Definition
Disafforest Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Disafforest?

[v] remove the trees from; "The landscape was deforested by the enemy attacks"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Disafforest: deforest | disforest

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Disafforest In Webster's Dictionary

\Dis`af*for"est\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disafforested}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Disafforesting}.] [Pref. dis- + afforest: cf. OF. desaforester.] (Eng. Law) To reduce from the privileges of a forest to the state of common ground; to exempt from forest laws. By charter 9 Henry III. many forests were disafforested. --Blackstone.

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