Definition of "disestablished" [disestablished]

• Simple past tense and past participle of disestablish. (verb)

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• "A new subsection has also been inserted to make it clear that all local government structures, which had already held elections, could not be "disestablished" or their powers changed without the consent of the Minister or Premier concerned."
• "One notes the contrast at the end of our century, when "disestablished" as a religion and its bonzes reduced to beggary, Hiyéi-san is used as the site of a Summer School of Christian Theology."
• "Labuan [15] at one time boasted a Colonial Chaplain and gave its name to the Bishop's See; but in 1872 or 1873, the Church was "disestablished" and the few European Officials who formed the congregation were unable to support a Clergyman."