Past tense of 'dispost'; to strip of weapons or defensive equipment (archaic).
From dis- (meaning to reverse) + post (meaning position or stance, from Latin postis). An archaic military term rarely used in modern English.
This is a word so old it's nearly fossilized—you'd need to dig into 16th-century military texts to see it, making it a linguistic artifact from when detailed armor and weapons terminology filled battle narratives.
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