dis armature (disarmatur)

[ On the universities which have illegally dropt philoso phy and its training from their course of discipline will lie the responsibility of this singular and dangerous dis armature. Sir W. Hamilton , disarmed (dis-ärmd'), p. a. [Pp. of disarm, t.] 11. Unarmed; without arms or weapons. I hold it good polity not to go disarmed. B. Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, iv. 5. 2. Stripped of arms; deprived of means of attack or defense. Elsewhere he saw where Troilus defy'd Achilles, and unequal combat try'd, Then where the boy disarm'd , with loosen'd reins, Was by his horses hurry'd o'er the plains. Dryden, Eneid, i.