discabinet

English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ cabinet.

Verb

discabinet (third-person singular simple present discabinets, present participle discabineting, simple past and past participle discabineted)

1. (transitive, rare) To reveal (something secret).
   • 1997, Anna R. Beer, Sir Walter Ralegh and His Readers in the Seventeenth Century: Speaking to the People, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Press Ltd.; New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 162:

     Thus, the Cabinet Council is not a true act of discabineting, and it is possible that Ralegh's status as truth-teller is being ironised, since any educated reader would recognise this as merely a collection of other people's ideas.

   • 2001 February, Paul Stevens, “Milton's "Renunciation" of Cromwell: The Problem of Raleigh's Cabinet-Council”, in Modern Philology, volume 98, number 3, Chicago, I.L.: The University of Chicago Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 386:

     Most important, he may have felt that while working through Machiavelli, Raleigh had discabineted a series of sentiments immediately relevant to his own understanding of the war.

Usage notes

• Now mainly used in reference to the works of English statesman Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618).

References

• “discabinet, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.