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Webster 1913 Edition


Disinter

Disˊin-ter′

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Disinterred
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Disinterring
.]
1.
To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up.
2.
To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view.
Addison.

Webster 1828 Edition


Disinter

DISINTER

,
Verb.
T.
[dis and inter.]
1.
To take out of a grave, or out of the earth; as, to disinter a dead body that is buried.
2.
To take out as from a grave; to bring from obscurity into view.
The philosopher--may be concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred. [Unusual.]