dister

English

Etymology

From Latin dis- + terra (“earth, country”); compare Spanish and Portuguese desterrar.

Verb

dister (third-person singular simple present disters, present participle disterring, simple past and past participle disterred)

(obsolete) To banish or drive from a country.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for dister in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

direst, disert, driest, drites, redist, ridest, stride

Latin

Verb

dister

first-person singular present passive subjunctive of distō

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