Definition of "disafforest" []

• To deforest (verb)
• To change the status of land from that of a forest to ordinary land (verb)

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• "Lindsay therefore wrote to the king to try to "disafforest" the lands which were contiguous to the monastery, and he effected his object by payment of 1320 marks."
• "In order to execute the lesser charter, it was requisite, by new perambulations, to set bounds to the royal forests, and to disafforest all land which former encroachments had comprehended within their limits."