disquantity

[ dis-kwon-ti-tee ]

verb (used with object)

, Obsolete.

, dis·quan·ti·tied, dis·quan·ti·ty·ing.

1. to diminish in quantity; make less.

Word History and Origins

Origin of disquantity¹

First recorded in 1595–1605; dis- ¹ + quantity

Example Sentences

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg