disendowment

1. (dated) The ceasing of endowment or endowments, especially said of the church.Examples: "We, the Irish Protestant clergy, are working very hard to uphold the dear old Church of England in Ireland; and, thank God, our efforts have been wonderfully blest since the disestablishment and disendowment 14 years ago."; "He denied that the disendowment of the Irish Church would be dangerous to the English Establishment"countabledateduncountable