Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—D

Disbar

(To). To deprive a barrister of his right to plead. The bar is the part barred off in courts of law and equity for barristers or pleaders.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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