disgown

dis- +‎ gown

disgown (third-person singular simple present disgowns, present participle disgowning, simple past and past participle disgowned)

1. (transitive) To divest of a gown of office; to defrock.
   • 1868, The Northern Monthly Magazine (volume 2, page 354)

     The boldness with which Dr. Canfield defied Bishop Potter when the latter threatened to disgown him for such transgressions was simply an expression of a right to individual action under the impulse of conviction of duty to the truth.

• dowsing