disafforest

/ ˌdɪsəˈfɒrɪst /

verb

1. English law to reduce (land) from the status of a forest to the state of ordinary ground
2. to remove forests from (land)

Derived Forms

• ˌdisafˌforesˈtation, noun

Example Sentences

During the first few years, these disafforested lands are highly productive, the virgin soil, enriched by carbonized refuse, yielding as much as sixty bushels to the acre.

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To re-afforest the disafforested wilderness has of late occupied the thoughts of the thoughtful in our country.

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"Most happy he who hath fit place assigned To his beasts, and disafforested his mind; Can use his horse, goat, wolf, and every beast, And is not ape himself to all the rest."

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These latter are at once disafforested; but those of Henry II. only so far as they had been carried out to the injury of the landowners and outside of the royal demesne.”

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Among his good deeds he disafforested the royal hunting ground of Mendip, and thus did great service to the people, "beef," as Fuller has it, "being better pleasing to the husbandman's palate than venison."

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