Only, if you had seen that eminent scholar when he got outside his library by accident and wanted to get back, you wouldn't have thought he was the anybody, and would probably have likened him to a disestablished hermit-crab-in respect, that is, of such a one's desire to disappear into his shell, and that respect only.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
The Italian state has, in fact, so far taken the matter in charge as to have established a secular holiday, coming once a week, which has almost disestablished the holidays of the Church, formerly of much more frequent occurrence.
"Roman Holidays and Others"
W. D. Howells
At last in 1785 Madison won the crowning victory in the Religious Freedom Act, by which the Church of England was disestablished and all parish rates abolished, and still more, all religious tests were done away with.
"The Critical Period of American History"
John Fiske