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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
disbranch .
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Examples
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** The trunk of a tree, disbranched, and then set up in the ground, seems to me the origin of the Osirian emblem called
History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12) M. L. McClure 1881
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Long since one graft of me disbranched, and bore 980
Erechtheus A Tragedy (New Edition) Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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The Church a naked Andromeda, with dishevelled hair, fastened to the trunk of an ancient disbranched tree.
English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4 James Anthony Froude 1856
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The lines "Friend to the friendless" &c. which you may think "rudely disbranched" from the Chatterton will patch in with the Man of Ross, where they were once quite at Home, with 2 more which I recollect "and o'er the dowried virgin's snowy cheek bad bridal love suffuse his blushes meek!" very beautiful.
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb Mary Lamb 1805
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