disinvolve

English

Etymology

dis- +‎ involve

Verb

disinvolve (third-person singular simple present disinvolves, present participle disinvolving, simple past and past participle disinvolved)

  1. (transitive) To uncover; to unfold or unroll; to disentangle.
    • 1672, Henry More, A brief Reply to a late Answer to Dr. Henry More his antidote against Idolatry:
      And for that second sense, it is indeed disinvolved of those former Difficulties

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “disinvolve”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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