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Disallow   /dˌɪsəlˈaʊ/   Listen
verb
Disallow  v. t.  (past & past part. disallowed; pres. part. disallowing)  To refuse to allow; to deny the force or validity of; to disown and reject; as, the judge disallowed the executor's charge. "To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God." "That the edicts of Caesar we may at all times disallow, but the statutes of God for no reason we may reject." Note: This verb was sometimes followed by of; as, "What follows, if we disallow of this?" See Allow.
Synonyms: To disapprove; prohibit; censure; reject.






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"Disallow" Quotes from Famous Books



... people do not vote in mass for anything; they pick out captains of thought, they pick out the men that do know, and they send them to the Legislature to think for them, and then the people afterward ratify or disallow them. ...
— The Art of Public Speaking • Dale Carnagey (AKA Dale Carnegie) and J. Berg Esenwein

... which, if thou be a severe sour-complexion'd man, then I hereby disallow thee to be ...
— General Bramble • Andre Maurois

... Social Will, that the individual, the family, the tribe, the nation, have any ethical justification for being at all. Sometimes it is very profitable for the individual, or for some group of human beings, to disallow this obligation to be moral. We treat the individual as a robber; why not admit that there ...
— A Handbook of Ethical Theory • George Stuart Fullerton

... mouldering page or fading scroll Outface the charter of the soul? Shall priesthood's palsied arm protect The wrong our human hearts reject, And smite the lips whose shuddering cry Proclaims a cruel creed a lie? The wizard's rope we disallow Was justice once,—is ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

... Bacchus, later born, The old world was sure forlorn Wanting thee, that aidest more The god's victories than before All his panthers, and the brawls Of his piping Bacchanals. These, as stale, we disallow, Or judge of thee meant; only thou His true Indian conquest art; And, for ivy round his dart, The reformed god now weaves A finer thyrsus of ...
— The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 • Charles Lamb


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