DISCAL 45 DISCHARGE B made through two parallel lines of puncta- Discase (dis-kās), v.t. (Prefix dis, priv., and Discernibly (diz-zèrn'i-bli), adv. In a man- visibly. Piscase thee instantly, and change garments with Discerning (diz-zèrn'ing), p. and a. 1. Diswhole surface of a leaf. this gentleman. Shak. tinguishing; seeing; discovering; knowing; (c) The central part of Disc-coupling (disk'ku-pl-ing), n. In mach. judging.-2. Having power to discern; capà radiate compound a kind of permanent coupling consisting of able of seeing, discriminating, knowing, and flower. (d) A projec two discs keyed on the connected ends of judging; sharp-sighted; penetrating; acute; tion or cup at the base the two shafts, In one of the discs are two as, a discerning man or mind. This hath been maintained not only by warm entakes & variety of thusiasts, but by cooler and more discerning heads. forms. The disc con- Flower of Common Daisy Bp. Atterbury. sists in some cases of The act or (Bellis perennis). Discerning (diz-zérn'ing), n. power of discerning; discernment. Where are his eyes, fied receptacle. Epigynous disc is on the Either his inotion weakens, or his discernings Shak. Discerningly (diz-zérn'ing-li), adv. With disc is under the ovary. Perigynous disc, discernment; acutely; with judgment; skilfully. Discernment (diz-zern'ment), n. 1. The act of discerning. -- 2. The power or faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes one thing from another, as truth from falsehood, virDisc-coupling tue from vice; acuteness of judgment; power of perceiving differences of things or ideas, jections on the other disc are received, and and their relations and tendencies; as, the thus the two discs become locked together. This kind of coupling wants rigidity, and errors of youth often proceed from the want of discernment. must be supported by a journal on each The third operation of the mind is discernment, side, but it possesses the double advantage which expresses simply the separation of our ideas. Epigynous and Hypogynous Discs.-A, Umbelli- of being easily adjusted and disconnected. 7. D. Morell ferous flower: d, Disc; o, Ovary. B, Flower of the Disceptationt (dis-sep-tā'shon), n. [L. dis- SYN. Judgment, acuteness, discrimination, orange family: d, Disc; o, Ovary. ceptatio, from discepto, to settle a dispute, acumen, clear-sightedness, penetration, sa to dispute-dis, and capto, to catch at, from gacity. Discerpt (dis-sérp), v.t. (L. discerpo, to The proposition is such as ought not to be ad. pluck-dis, asunder, and carpo, to pluck.] mitted in any science or any disceptation, Barrow. i. To tear in pieces; to rend. Disceptator (dis'sep-tāt-ér), n. [L. See This (sedition) divides, yea, and discerps a city. Dr. Griffith. 2. To separate; to select; to disjoin. Warceatus, unshod-dis, priv., and calceus, a The inquisitive disceptators of this age would, at burton. shoe ] To pull or strip off shoes or sandals the persuasion of illiterate persons, turn their ergo into amen to the evangelical philosopher. Cowley. Discerpibility, Discerptibility (dis-serp'ifrom Cockeram. Discalceationt (dis-kal-sé-a'shon), n. bil''i-ti, dis-sérp'ti-bil"i-ti), n. Capability or The Discern (diz-zérn'), v.t. (L. discerno-dis, liableness to be torn asunder or disunited. dis-ser/ti-), a. [L. discerpo, to pluckshoes at meals, is conceived to have been done, as by that means keeping their beds clean. the difference between two or more things; dis, asunder, and carpo, to seize, to tear. ) Sir T. Browne. to discriminate; as, to discern the blossom That may be torn asunder; separable; capDiscampt (dis-kamp), v.t. To force from a buds from the leaf-buds of plants. able of being disunited by violence. camp. Holland The act of Discerption (dis-sérp'shon), n. Gen, xxxi. 32. pulling to pieces or of separating the parts. 2. To constitute the difference between. See DI CANDY Discerptive (dis-sérp'tiv), a. Capable of Discandy (dis-kan'di), v.i. (Prefix dis, and We are so good, or bad, just at a price; separating or dividing. N. B. Rev. For nothing else discerns the virtue or the vice, candy.) To melt; to dissolve. (Obsolete Discessiont (dis-ses'shon), n. [L, discessio, B. Forson. and American.] a separation, departure-dis, asunder, and 3. To discover; to see; to distinguish by the cedo, cessum, to go.) Departure. My brave Egyptians all, eye. By the discandying of this pelleted storm, Discharge (dis-chärj), v.t. pret. & pp. dis I discerned among the youths a young man void of Shak. Proy, vii. 7. charged; ppr. discharging. [Prefix dis, and [This is the common reading of this passage: charge. Fr. décharger, to discharge.] 1. To 4. To discover by the intellect; to distinthe old editions, followed by Knight, have unload, as a ship; to take out, as a cargo: guish; hence, to have knowledge of; to discandering.) applied both to the ship and the loading. We judge. Discapacitate (dis-ka-pas'i-tāt), v.t. (Pre say, to discharge a ship; but more generally, fix dis, priv., and capacitate.] To incapaci. So is my lord the king to discern good and bad. to discharge a cargo or the lading of the ship 2 Sam. xiv. 17. 2. To free from any load or burden; to throw Discard (dis-kärd), v.t. (Prefix dis, priv., Eccl. viii. 5. off or exonerate; as, discharged of business. and card. The Sp. descartar is to throw SYN. To distinguish, discover, see, perceive, 3. In arch. to relieve a beam or any other cards out of one's hands at certain games; behold, recognize, mark, espy, descry, dis- piece of timber too much loaded by an inhence, to put away, to reject.] 1. To throw criminate. cumbent weight of building, in which case out of the hand, applied to such cards as Discern (diz-zern'), v.i. 1. To see or under the weight is said to be discharged; to disare not played in the course of the game.-- stand the difference; to make distinction; tribute or relieve the pressure of.-4. To 2. To dismiss from service or employment, as, to discern between good and evil, truth free of the missile with which anything is or from society; to cast off. and falsehood. "To discern between a sub- charged or loaded; to make the charge of to They blame the favourites, and think it nothing ject and a rebel.' Locke.-2. To have judi tly off; fire off; as, to discharge a bow, a extraordinary that the queen should ... resolve to cial cognizance. catapult, a pistol. Swift. The galleys also did oftentimes out of their prows 3. To thrust away; to reject; as, to discard stellionate, &c. Bacon. discharge their great pieces against the city, prejudices. Discernable, a. Knolles. Discern- 5. To let fly; to shoot; to emit, or send out; to give vent to; as, to discharge a ball or Sex. To dismiss, reject, cast off, discharge, Discerner (diz-zern'er), n. 1. One who sees, ment. grape-shot; a pipe discharges water; an cashier. Discard (dis-kard'), v.i. In card-playing, to discovers, or distinguishes; an observer. ulcer discharges blood; to discharge fury or throw out of the hand such cards as are 2. One who knows and judges; one who has yengeance: applied also to an electrical jar, battery, &c., charged with electricity, to signify the removing of the charge. They do discharge their shot of courtesy. Shak. natures and humours. Clarendon. Eng. Ency. 6. To deliver the amount or value of to the Discard (dis - kärd'), n. In card - playing, person to whom it is owing; to pay; as, to discharge a debt, a bond, a note. I will discharge my bond. Shak. Heb. iv. 12. 7. To satisfy, as a person to whom anything the deal, the non-dealer leads any card he deems fit. Discernible (diz-zèrn'i-bl), a. That may be is due; to pay one's debt to; as, he discharged Eng. Ency. seen distinctly; discoverable by the eye or his creditors.--8. To free from claim or de the understanding; distinguishable; as, the mand; to give an acquittance, or a receipt in The discard must be placed face downwards on the star is discernible by the eye; the identity full to, as to a debtor; as, the creditor distable, apart from the stock and from the adversary's discard. Cavendish or difference of ideas is discernible by the charged his debtor.-9. To free from an obDiscardure (dis-kård'ūr), n. Dismissal; understanding. ligation, duty, or labour; to relieve; as, to rejection. Too many traces of the bad habits the soldiers had discharge a man from further duty or ser contracted were discernible till the close of the war. vice; to discharge a surety. Macaulay. It is when Milton escapes from the shackles of the dialogue, when he is discharged from the labour of Discarnate + (dis-kär'nāt), a. (L. dis, priv., distinguishable, apparent, visible, evident, uniting two incongruous styles, when he is at liberty and caro, carnis, flesh. ] Stripped of flesh. manifest. to indulge his choral raptures without reserve, that A load of broken and discarnate bones.' Discernibleness (diz-zérn'i-bl-nes), n. Vis he rises even above himself. Macaulay. Glanville, ibleness. 10. To clear from an accusation or crime; to tate. DISCHARGE 46 DISCIPLINE Grindal ... his see. acquit; to absolve; to set free: with of; as, of the barrel of the air-pump and opens That better were in vertues discipled, to discharge a man of all blame.--11. To upwards. It prevents the water which is Than with vaine poemes weeds to have their fancies fed. Spenser. perforın or execute, as a duty or office forced through it on the ascent of the piston considered as a charge; as, one man dis- from returning (In this extract discipled is pronounced dis'. charges the office of a sheriff, another that Discharging Arch (dis-chärj'ing ärch), n. si-pled. 1-2. To make disciples of; to conof a priest In arch. an arch formed in the substance of vert to doctrines or principles. The sun will set before I shall discharge a wall to relieve the part which is below it This authority he employed in sending missionaries What I must strive to do. Shak. to disciple all nations. E. D. Griffin. 12. To divest of an office or employment; to 3. To punish; to discipline. dismiss from service; as, to discharge a But for your carnival concupiscence Her will I disciple. steward or a servant; to discharge a soldier B. Jonson. or seaman; to discharge a jury. Disciple-like (dis-si'pl-lik), a. Becoming a was discharged the government of disciple. A son-like and disciple-like rev. Vilton. erence. Milton. 13. To release; to liberate from confinement; Discipleship (dis-si'pl-ship), n. The state as, to discharge a prisoner.--14. To clear of being a disciple or follower in doctrines and precepts. one's self of, as by explanation; to account for. Disciplinable (dis'si-plin-a-bl), a. (See Dis. At last he bade her (with bold stedfastnesse) CIPLINE.) 1. Capable of instruction and innCease to molest the Moone to walke at large, provement in learning. Humble and disOr come before high Jove her doings to discharge. ciplinable.' Hale.-2. That may be made Spenser. matter of discipline;as, a disciplinable offence Discharge (dis-chärj), v.i. To break up. in church government.-3. Subject or liable The cloud, if it were oily or fatty, would not dis. to discipline, as the member of a church. charge, Bacon. Disciplinableness (dis'si-plin-a-bl-nes), n. Discharge (dis-chärj'), n. 1. The act of unfroin the superincumbent weight. Such 1. Capacity of receiving instruction by eduloading; as, the discharge of a ship; the act arches are commonly used over lintels and cation.-2. The state of being subject to of taking out; as, the discharge of a cargo. flat-headed openings. discipline. 2. The act of freeing of the missile with which anything is loaded; the act of firing Discharging Rod (dis-chärj'ing-rod), n. Disciplinal (dis'si-plin-al), a. Relating to In elect, same as Discharger. discipline; disciplinary: (Rare.] off or unloading; as, a discharge of fire-arms. Discharity (dis-cha'ri-ti), n. Want of cha- Disciplinant (dis'si-plin-ant), n. One of a 3. A throwing out; vent; emission: applied rity. (Rare.) religious order, so called from their practice to a fluid, a flowing or issuing out, or a of scourging themselves, or undergoing throwing out; as, the discharge of water When devotion to the Creator should cease to be other rigid discipline. from a spring or from a spout: applied testified by discharity towards his creatures. Brougham. Disciplinarian (dis'si-plin-ā"ri-an), a. Peralso to an electrical jar, battery, &c., to signify the removal of the charge by Dischevele, pp. With the head uncovered. taining to discipline. Disciplinarian (dis'si-plin-à"ri-au), n. 1. One Chaucer. forming a communication between the positive and negative surfaces. - 4. That Dischidia (dis-ki'di-a), n. [Gr. dis, twice, who disciplines; one versed in rules, prinwhich is thrown out; matter emitted; as, a and schizó, to split, from an obscure process ciples, and practice, and who teaches them in the conformation of the flower.) A genus with precision; one who instructs in milithin serous discharge; a purulent discharge. tary and naval tactics and maneuvres; one 5. Dismissal from office or service; or the of Asclepiadaceæ found in India, the Indian who enforces rigid discipline; a martinet. writing which evidences the dismissal; as, He, being a strict disciplinarian, would punish the soldier obtained his discharge.-6. Re their vicious manners. Fuller lease from obligation, debt, or penalty; or 2. ^ A Puritan or Presbyterian: so called from the writing which is evidence of it; an ac his rigid adherence to religious discipline. quittance; as, the debtor has a discharge. Bp. Sanderson. Secure of our discharge from penalty.' Disciplinary (dis'si-plin-a-ri), a. 1. PertainMilton.-7. Absolution from a crime or ac ing to discipline; intended for discipline or cusation; acquittance. government; promoting discipline; as, cerWhich word imports an acquittance or discharge tain canons of the church are disciplinary, of a man upon , : . full trial and cognizance of his The evils of life, pain, sickness, losses, sorrows, South, dangers, and disappointments, are disciplinary and 8. Ransom; liberation; price paid for deliv remedial Buckminster erance. 2. Relating to a regular course of education. Death, who sets all free, Hath paid his ransoin now, and full dischirge. Studies, wherein our noble and gentle youth ought Milton. to bestow their time in a disciplinary way. Milton. 9. Performance; execution: applied to an Discipline (dis'si-plin), na (L. disciplina, office, trust, or duty; as, a good man is from discipulus, from disco, to learn.) faithful in the discharge of his duties. 1. Education; instruction; the cultivation 'Indefatigable in the discharge of business.' of the mind and formation of the manners; Motley.-10. Liberation; release from im training. prisonment or other confinement.-11. Pay. He openeth also the ear to discipline. Job xxxvi, 10. ment, as of a debt. Wife and children are a kind of discipline of huma. nity. Bacon. My lord of Somerset will keep me here, Without discharge, money, or furniture. Shak. 2. Instruction and government, compre hending the communication of knowledge 12. In arch. the relief given to a beam or and the regulation of practice; the training other piece of timber when too much loaded Dischidia Rafflesiana. to act in accordance with rules; drill; as, by a superincumbent weight. -13. sul). military discipline. stance, such as chloride of lime or nitric Archipelago, and Australia. They are herbs acid, used by calico printers to remove a or under shrubs, with small white or red Their wildness lose, and, quitting nature's part, Obey the rules and discipline of art. Dryden. colour from the parts on which the dis- flowers. One species, D. Rafflesiana, is recharge is printed. It acts either upon the markable for its numerous pitcher-like ap 3. Rule of government; method of regulatcolouring matter directly or upon the mor- pendages. ing principles and practice; as, the discidant before the cloth is exposed to the Dischurch (dis-cherch'), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv., pline prescribed for the church. – 4. Subjeccolouring matter. - Discharge of fluids, the and church. (To deprive of the rank of a tion to rule; submissiveness to control. name given to that branch of hydraulics church The most perfect, who have their passions in the which treats of the issuing of water through Discidet (dis-sid'), v.t. [L. dis, asunder, and best discipline. Kogers. apertures in the sides and bottoms of vessels. scindo, scidi, to split.] To divide; to cut in 5. Correction; chastisement; punishment Discharge style, a method of calico printing pieces; to cleave in two. inflicted by way of correction and training; in which a piece of cloth is coloured, and Her lying tongue was in two parts divided, instruction by means of misfortune, sufferfrom parts of And both the parts did speake, and both contended; ing, and the like. it - forming a And as her tongue so was her hart discided, Without discipline, the favourite child, pattern the And never thought one thing, but doubly stil was Like a neglected forester, runs wild. Cowper, colour is after guided. Spenser A sharp discipline of half a century had sufficed wards removed Disciform (dis'si-form), a. (L. discus, a to educate us. Macaulay. by a discharge. quoit, and forma, form.] Resembling a disk 6. In R. Cath Ch. (a) chastisement or Discharger or quoit in shape. bodily punishment inflicted on a delinquent; (dis-charj'er), Discinct (dis-singkt'), a. [L. dis, asunder, or that chastisement or external mortificaп. 1. He who or and cinctus, pp. of cingo, to gird. ] Ungirded. tion which a penitent inflicts on himself. that which disDiscindt (dis-sind'), v. t. [L. dis, asunder, (6) The scourge a delinquent uses in selfcharges; spe and scindo, to cut.] To cut in two. Nations chastisement; or that wielded by his concifically, (a) in discinded by the main.' Howell, fessor or his confessor's substitute.--7.7 Any. elect, an instru Disciple (dis-si'pl), n. [L. discipulus, from thing taught; branch of knowledge ; art. ment for dis disco, to learn.] 1. A learner; a scholar; one Mechanical disciplines.' Wilkins. —8. Eccles. charging a Ley who receives or professes to receive instruc- the application in a church of those prinden phial, jar, Leyden Jar with Discharger. tion from another; as, the disciples of Plato. ciples and rules which regard the purity. &c., by making 2. A follower; an adherent to the doctrines order, and peace of its members. -- Books of a connection between the two surfaces. of another; as, the disciples of Christ. -SYN. discipline, in the Scotch Church, two books (6) In cilico printing, a discharge. See Dis- Learner, scholar, pupil, follower, adherent. drawn up for the reformation of the church CHARGE, 13. Disciple (dis-si'pl), v. t. pret. & pp. discipled; and the uniformity of its discipline and Discharge - valve (dis-chärj'valv), n. In ppr. discipling. 1. To teach; to train or policy- the first by Knox and four other steam-engines, a valve which covers the top bring up ministers in 1560, in which rules for the elec cause. DISCIPLINE 47 DISCOMFORT tion of ministers, elders, and deacons, and to bring to light; as, events have disclosed of the body, by means of which the fishes the examination of the first, and especially the designs of the ministry. are enabled to hold on upon the points of for dealing with persons guilty of offences, How softly on the Spanish shore she plays, rocks, and there catch their food. The lumpare laid down. The second was compiled Disclosing rock, and slope, and forest brown! fish (Cyclopterus Lumpus) is a good example by a committee of Assembly of 1578, in which Byron. of the group. Andrew Melville took a leading part. It is 3. To make known; to reveal; to tell; to utter; Discocarp, Discocarpium (disk'o-kärp, still appealed to as the most complete and as, to disclose the secret thoughts of the disk-o-kärp'i-um), n. (Gr. diskos, a disc, and heart. authoritative exhibition of Scottish Pres "She that could think and ne'er dis karpos, fruit.] In bot. a collection of fruit byterianism.-Syn. Education, instruction, close her mind.' Shak. in a hollow receptacle, as in many roseculture, correction, chastisement, training, If I disclose my passion worts. drill. Our friendship's at an end. Addison. Discoherentt (dis-ko-hē'rent), a. [Prefix Discipline (dis'si-plin), v.t. pret. & pp. dis- 4. To open; to hatch. dis, neg., and coherent.} Incoherent. ciplined; ppr. disciplining. ` 1. To instruct The ostrich layeth her eggs under sand, where the Discoid, Discoidal (disk'oid, disk'oid-al), a. or educate; to inform the mind of; to pre heat of the sun discloseth them. Bacon. (Gr. diskos, a quoit, and eidos, resemblance.) pare by instruction; to train; as, to discipline SYN. To uncover, unveil, discover, reveal, i. Having the form of a disk.-2. In conch. youth for a profession or for future useful- divulge, tell, utter. applied to certain univalve shells. See the ness. Disclose (dis-klóz), v.i. To burst open; to noun.-Discoid or discous flowers, compound They were with care prepared and disciplined for open; to gape. Thomson. flowers not radiated, but with florets all confirination, Addison. Discloset (dis-kloz'), n. Disclosure; disco- tubular, as the tansy, southern-wood, &c.2. To accustom to systematic action; to teach very. The disclose of fine-spun nature.' Discoid pith is when there are numerous air rules and practice, and accustom to order Young. cavities dividing the pith into compartments and subordination; to drill; as, to discipline Disclosed (dis-klözd'), p. which are separated by disc-like partitions, troops. His mind . :. imperfectly disci- and a. 1. Uncovered; ex as in the walnut.-Discoidal placentæ, plaplined by nature.' Macaulay. – 3. To cor- posed to view ; made centae or after-births which have the form rect; to chastise; to punish. known; revealed; told; of a circular flattened cake, as that of man, Has he not disciplined Aufidius soundly? Shak. uttered.-2. In her a term the quadrumana, bats, insectivora, and the rodents. 4. To execute the laws of a Church on with applied to tame fowls to a view to bring to repentance and reformadenote that the wings are Discoid (disk'oid), . Something in the tion of life.-5. To keep in subjection; to spread open or expanded form of a discus or disc; specifically, a uniregulate; to govern. valve shell whose whorls are disposed verDisciplining them on each side, but with (appetites) with fasting.' Scott.-Syn. To their points downwards. A dove disclosed, tically on the same plane, so as to form a Disclosed elevated is train, form, educate, instruct, drill, regulate, disc, as the Planorbis. correct, chastise, punish. when the wings are spread out in such a Discolith (dis'ko-lith), n. (Gr. diskos, a Discipliner (dis'si-plin-ér), n. One who dis- way that the points are elevated. round plate, and lithos, a stone.) A calcaciplines or teaches. Discloser (dis-kloz'ér), n. One who discloses reous body with an organic structure found Disclaim (dis-klām), p.t. [Prefix dis, and or reveals. embedded in bathybius (which see).. claim.] 1. To deny or relinquish all claim Disclosure (dis-klāʻzhūr), n. 1. The act of Discolor (disko-lor), a. (L., particoloured.] to; to reject as not belonging to one's self; disclosing; an uncovering and opening to In bot. applied to parts, one of whose surto renounce; as, he disclaims any right to view; discovery; exposition; exhibition. faces has one colour and the other another colour. interfere in the affairs of his neighbour; he An unseasonable disclosure of Aashes of wit may disclaims all pretension to military skill. sometimes do a man no other service, than to direct | Discoloration (dis-kul'ér-ā"shon), n. 1. The his adversaries how they may do him a mischief. act of discolouring, or state of being disHere I disclaim all my paternal care. Shak. Boyle. coloured ; alteration of colour.–2. That 2. To deny responsibility for or approval of; 2. The act of making known or revealing; which is discoloured; a discoloured spot; to disavow; to disown. utterance of what was secret; a telling. "A stain; as, spots and discolorations of the He calls the gods to witness their offence, sudden mutability and disclosure of the skin.-3. Alteration of complexion or apDisclaims the war, asserts his innocence. Dryden. king's mind.' Bacon.-3. That which is dis pearance of any; as, the discoloration of Each disclaimed all knowledge of us. Tennyson. closed or made known; as, these disclosures ideas. 3. To refuse to acknowledge; to renounce; are afterwards told to the king. Discolour (dis-kul'èr), v.t. [L. discoloro-to reject. (Prefix dis, dis, and coloro, from color, colour.] 1. To priv., and cloud.) To free from clouds; to He disdaims the authority of Jesus. Farmer. alter the natural hue or colour of; to change free from whatever obscures. Had dis to a different colour or shade; to stain; to 4. In law, (a) to deny or disavow, as another's clouded his darkened heart.' Feltham. claim. tinge; as, sea-water discolours silver. Discloutt (dis-klout'), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv., A vassal who deliberately disclaims his superior and clout.] To divest of a clout or covering. Drink water, either pure, or but discoloured with malt. Sir W. Temple. on frivolous grounds incurs á forfeiture of the fee. Bp. Hall. 2. To alter the complexion of; to change the (6) To decline accepting, as an estate, ina separation, from discludo, disclusum, to appearance of; to give a false tinge to; as, to terest, or office.-Syn. To disown, disavow, discolour ideas. separate-dis, priv., and claudo, to shut. ] deny, reject, renounce. An emission; a throwing out. (Rare.) Jealousy with jaundice in her eyes, Disclaim (dis-klām'), v.i. To disavow all Discoast t (dis-kost'), v. i. Discolouring all she view'd. Dryden. [Prefix dis, and claim, part, or share. (Rare.) coast.) To depart; to quit the coast; to quit Discoloured (dis-kul'érd), p. and a. 1. AlNature disclaims in thee. Shak. the neighbourhood of any place or thing; to tered in colour; stained. - 2. Variegated; Disclaimer (dis-kläm'èr), n. 1. A person be separated. being of diverse colours. In this use inwho disclaims, disowns, or renounces. To discoast from the plain and simple way of speech. fluenced by L. discolor, particoloured.) 2. Act of disclaiming; abnegation of preten Barrow. Menesthius was one sions or claims. As far as Heaven and earth discoasted lie. That ever wore discolour'd arms. Chapman, G. Fletcher. I think the honour of our nation to be somewhat Discobolus(dis-koʻbo-lus), n. pl. Discoboli Discomfit (dis-kum'fit), v.t. [0.Fr. disconcerned in the disclaimer of the proceedings of this society. confire, disconfit; Fr. déconfire – L. dis, Burke. (dis-ko'bo-lī). [L. discobolus; Gr. diskobolos- priv., and conficere, to finish, complete, 3. In law, (a) a renunciation, by plea or 1. In class. antiq. a thrower of the discu3 or achieve-con, intens., and facere, to do.] otherwise, of any trust, interest, or estate, 1. To rout; to defeat; to scatter in fight; to as an executor under a will or trustee under cause to flee; to vanquish. a deed. (6) In equity proceedings, a plea by Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with a defendant renouncing all claim upon or the edge of the sword. Ex. xvii, 13 interest in the subject of the demand made He, fugitive, declined superior strength, by the plaintiff, and thus barring the action Discomfited, pursued. Philips. as against him. (c) An express or implied 2. To disconcert; to foil; to frustrate the denial by a tenant that he holds an estate of plans of; to throw into perplexity and dehis lord; a denial of tenure, by plea or other jection. wise. Well, go with me, and be not so discomfited. Shak. Disclamation (dis-klam-a'shon), n. The act of disclaiming; a disavowing: specifi Discomfit (dis-kum'fit), n. 1. Rout; dispercally, in Scots law, the act of a vassal disavow sion; defeat; overthrow. ing or disclaiming a person as his super Dagon must stop, and shall ere long receive ior, whether the person so disclaimed be the Such a discomfit, as shall quite despoil him. Milton. superior or not. Discomfiture (dis-kum'fit-ūr), n. 1. Rout; Disclamet (dis-klām), v. t. To refuse to defeat in battle; dispersion; overthrow. have anything to do with; to disavow. Every man's sword was against his fellow, and Money did love disclame.' Spenser. there was a very great discomfiture. 1 Sam. xiv. 20. Disclander, t v.t. (Prefix dis, intens., and 2. Defeat; frustration; disappointment. elander. ] To slander. Chaucer. After five days' exertion, this man of indomitable Disclandert(dis-klan'dér), n. Slander. Hall. will and invincible fortune, resigns the task in dis. Disclanderoust (dis-klan'dér-us), a. Slan comfiture and despair. Disraeli. derous. Fabyan. Discomfort (dis-kum'fert), n. [Prefix dis, Discloak (dis-klok), v.t. To uncloak; to dis priv., and comfort.] 1. Absence or opposite cover. (Rare.) Disclose (dis-klóz), v. t. pret. & pp. disclosed; Discobolus throwing the Discus.--Townley Marbles, of comfort or pleasure; uneasiness; disturb. ance of peace; pain; grief; sorrow; inquieppr. disclosing. (Prefix dis, and close. See tude. CLOSE.] 1. To uncover; to lay open; to requoit; a quoit-player.—2. pl. The name given What mean you, sir, move a cover from, and lay open to the view. by Cuvier to his third family of soft-finned To give them this discomfort! Look, they weep. Shak. The shells being broken, the stone included in them teleostean fishes with the ventrals under the is disclosed. Woodward. I will strike him dead pectorals. They are so called from the ven For this discomfort he hath done the house. 2. To cause to appear; to allow to be seen; tral fins forming a disc on the under part Tennyson. DISCOMFORT 48 DISCONTINUITY cer Discomfort (dis-kum'fert), r.t. To disturb Discomposition + (dis-kom-poz-i'shon), n. easiness or inquietude of mind; dissatisfacpeace or happiness: to make uneasy; to Inconsistency; incongruity. tion at any present state of things. pain; to grieve; to sadden; to deject. O perplexed discomposition, O riddling distcmper, Now is the winter of our discontent Her champion went away discomforted as much as O miserable condition of man! Dune Made glorious summer by this sun of York. Skak. discomated. Sir P. Sidowy Discomposure (dis-kom-pö’zhur), n. 1. The 2 One who is discontented; a malcontent. Discomfortable (dis-kum'fërt-a-bl), a. state of being discomposed; disorder; agi- * Fickle changelings and poor discontents. 1. Causinz uneasiness; unpleasant; giving tation; disturbance; perturbation; as, dis. Shak pain; inaking sad. Yo other news but composure of mind – 21 Inconsistency; Discontent (dis-kon-tent), a. I'neasy; disdiwomfortable. Sir P. Sidney.--2. + l'neasy; incongruity; disagreement. satisfied More mistrable than discontent.' melancholy; refusing comfort ‘Discom How exquisite a symmetry ... in the Scripture's Shak. fortable cousin' Shak.-3. Wanting in com- method in spite of those seeming discomyasure that Discontent (dis-kon-tent), r. To make fort; discommodious; uncomfortable. now puzzle me Bryle. uncasy at the present state; to dissatisfy. labyrinth of little discomfortable garrets.' Discompt(dis-kount), t.t. To discount Those tha: were there thought it not fit Thackeray. Hudibras. To discutent so ancient a wit. Suckling Discomforten, t r.t. To discourage. Chau- Disconcert (dis-kon-sert), t.t. Prefix dis. Discontented (dis-kon-tent'ed). p. and a priv,, and concert.] 1. To throw into disorder Discommend (dis-kom-mend), r.t. (Prefix "A or confusion; to undo, as a scheme or plan: Uneasy in mind; dissatisfied; unquiet. dix, nez, and commend' ] 1. To blame; to diseased body and a discontented mind to defeat; to frustrate; as, the emperor dis- Tillotson. censure; to mention with disapprobation concerted the plans of his enemy; their Discontentedly (dis-kon-tent'ed-li), adr. I do not discommend the lofty style in tragedy. schemes were disconcerted.–2. To unsettle 1 In a discontented manner or mood. Dryten. the mind of; to discompose; to disturb the Discontentedness (dis-kon-tent'ed-nes), n. 2. To put out of favour with; to expose to self-possession of; to confuse. censure or bad feeling U neasiness of mind; inyuietude; dissatisfac The embrace disconcerted the daughter-in-law tion. A compliance will discommend me to Mr. Coventry. somewhat, as the carusses of oil gentlemen unsh.mn Discontentful (dis-kon-tent'ful), a. Full Peps. and perfumed with totacco might well do. Thackeray. of discontent. Discommendable (dis-kom-menda-bí), a. Horde. Bi amable; censurable, deserving disappro Sex. To discompose, derange, ruffle, confuse, Discontentingt (dis-kon-tent’ing), a. 1. Giv disturb, defeat, frustrate. bation ing uneasiness. Discommendableness (dis-kom-menda-bl Disconcert+ (dis-kon'sért), n. Disunion; How un, leasing and discontenting the society of disagreement. body must teeds be between those whose minds nes), n Blamableress; the quality of be Disconcertion (dis-kon-ser'shon), n. The inz worthy of disapprobation. cannot be sociable. Malson. act of disconcerting; the state of being disDiscommendation dis-kom'mend-a"shon), 2. + Discontented: feeling discontent. Your Blame; censure; reproach. concerted, confusion, dejection. n. dicontenting father.' Shak. Discommender (dis-kom-mend'ér), n. One If I cal! entertain a hope of finding refuge for the Discontentment (dis-kon-tent'ment)n. who discommends; a dispraiser. disconcertion of my mind in the perfect composure The state of being uneasy in mind, uneasi. of yours. Discommission (dis-kom-mi'shon), rt (Pre State Trials. | ness; inquietude; discontent. fix dis, prie, and comininsion) To deprive Disconducive (dis-kon-dus’iv), a. [Prefix The politic and artificial nourishing of hopes is of a commission Abp. Laud, dis, neg, and conducire.) Sot conducive; one of the best antidotes against the poison of dis conientmeni. disadvantag: ous; obstructive; impeding. Discommodatet (dis-kom mo-dat), rt (L. Bacon. dis, priv., and commodo, commodatum, to Disconformable(dis-kon-form'a-bi),a. (Pre- Discontiguous (dis-kon-tig'ü-us), a. [Prefix make fit or suitable, from commodus, fit) fix dix, nes, and conformable.) Not con- ! dis, nes, and contiguous.) Not contiguous; formable. To incommode as, discontiguous lands. Discommode (dis-kom-mód), rt pret & Disconformity (dis-kon-form'i-ti), n. [Pre- Discontinuable (dis-kon-tin'ü-a-bl), a. That pp. dixcom moded; ppr. discommoding. (L. fix dis, prir., and conformity.) Want of may be discontinued. dis, priv., and commodo, to make suitable. Discongruity (dis-kon-grū'i-ti), na agreement or conformity; inconsistency. Discontinuance (dis-kon-tin'ū-ans). n. To put tó inconvenience; to incommode; to (Prefix (See DISCUNTINCE.) Want of continu. molest; to trouble. dis, priv., and congruity ] Want of congru- ance; cessation; intermission; interruption Discommodious (dis-kom-modi-us), a. In ity; incongruity; disagreement; inconsist- of continuance. • Long discontinuance of convenient, troublesome. ency our conversation with him.' Atterbury.Disconnect (dis-kon-nekt), et (Prefix dis, 2. Want of continued connection or coDiscommodiously (dis-kom- mõ'di - us - li), ade. In aiiscommodious manner. neg., and connect] To separate; to disunite; hesion of parts: solution of continuity; to dissolve connection. Discommodiousness (dis- kom- mö'di - us want of union; disruption. * Round drops, Inconvenience; disadvantage; The commonwealth would, in a few generations, nes) n which is the figure that saveth the body crum'le away, be desannected into the dust and trouble. * The discominodiousness of the (water) most from discontinuance.' Bacon powder of individua ity. Burke place' North (Rare or obsolete. H3. In lau, a breaking This restriction disconnects bank paper and the Discommodity (dis-kom-modi-ti). n. In off or interruption of possession, as where precious metais. a tenant in tail makes a feoffment in feeconvenience; trouble; hurt; disadvantage. - To disconnect an engine, in mach. to re- simple, or for the life of the feoffee, or in You go about ia rain or fine, at all hours, without move the connecting-rod. discommodity. tail, which he has not power to do. In this C. Lark. Discommon (dis-kom'mon), e.t. (Prefix dis, The act of separating, or disuniting, or state of the life of the feoffor; but if he retain pospriv., and common.) 1 To make to cease to be common land; to appropriate, as common being disunited; separation; want of union. session after the death of the feoffor it is an land, by separating and inclosing. -2. To Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordi- injury, which is termed a discontinuance, deprive of the right of a common Date members tut weakness, disconnection, and con the legal estate of the heir in tail being dis continued till a recovery can be had in law. Whiles thou discommronest thy neighbour's kyne. Disconsecrate (dis-kon'sė-krāt), r.t. [Prefix - Discontinuance of a suit, the termination By Hal!. 3. To deprive of the privileges of a place, as dis, priv., and consecrate.) To deprive of of a suit by the act of the plaintiff, as by of a university. sacredness; to desecrate. (Rare.) notice in writing, or by not continuing the Disconsent (dis-kon-sentri [Pr fir dis, suit from day to day. Bishop King, then Vice-chancellor, discommoned three or four towrsmes together. neg., and consent.] To differ; to disagree; Discontinuation dis-kon-tin'ü-ā"shon), n. State Tris. not to consent Breach or interruption of continuity; disDiscompanied (dis-kum'pan-ed), a. (Pre If therefore the tradition of the Church were now ruption of parts; separation of parts which fix dix, priv., and company. ) Free from grown so ridiculous and disconsenting from the form a connected series. Discontinuation company; unaccompanied If she be doctrine of the Apostles, even in those points which of parts." Teuton. alone now, and discompanied' B. Jonem. were of least moment to men's particular min is, hew Discomplexion + (dis-kom-plek'shon), rt we may we be assured it was much more degener Discontinue (dis-kon-tin'ü), et pret. & pp. ated in point of Episcopacy. discontinued; ppr. discontinuing. (Prefix (Pretie dis and complerion.) To change the complexion or colour of. dis, neg., and continue.] 1. To leave off, to Beau. d Fi. Disconsolacy + (dis-kon'ső-la-si), n. DisconDiscompliance (dis-kom-pli'ans), n. (Prefix solateness * Penury, baseness, and discon cause to cease, as a practice or habit; to dis, neg., and compliance. ] Non-compliance. solacy.' Barrou. stop: to put an end to; as, to discontinue the intemperate use of spirits. 'A discompliance (will discommend me) to Disconsolance, | Disconsolancy (dismy lord-chancellor.' Pepys kon'ső-lans, dis-kon'sô-lan-si), n. Discon The depredations on our commerce were not to be discontinued. T. Pickering Discompose (dis-kom-póz'), v. t. pret & pp. solateness discomixed; ppr. discoiporing (Prefix dis, Disconsolate (dis-kon’so-lát), a. [L dis, 2. To break off; to interrupt; to break the prir., and compose. ) 1 To unsettle: to dis- priv., and consolatus, pp. of consolor, to con- continuity of; to intermit. order; to disturb: to disarrange; to interfere sole, to be consoled. See CONSOLE.) 1. Des. They modify and discriminate the roice without titute of comfort or consolation; sorrowful; appearing to discontinue it. with; to break up. Holder. A great impiety 3. To cease to take or receive; to give up; hath stained the honour of hopeless or not expecting comfort; sad, dea far y, and discomposed its title to the disiae jected; melancholy; as, a parent bereaved to cease to use; as, to discontinue a daily Fer. Taylor. of an only child and disconsolate. paper. Now Betty from her master's bed had flown, One morn a Peri at the gate Taugbt the Greek tongue, discontinued before in And softy stcle to discompose her 071. Stei. Of Eden stood dissonsolzte. Moore. these parts the space of seven hundred years. Daniel. 2. To disturb peace and quietness in; to agi- 2 Not affording comfort; cheerless: sadden- Discontinue (dis-kon-tin'u), r.: 1. To cease; tate: to ruffle: applied to the temper or ing: gloomy. • The disconsolate darkness of to leave the possession, or lose an established mind our winter nights' Ray. ID in death it shows, or long-enjoyed right. In Thyself shall discontinue from thine heritage. a disconsolate manner; without comfort. Jer. xvii. 4. 3. * To displace; to discard; to discharge. Disconsolateness (dis-kon'so-lat-nes), 11. 2. To lose the cohesion of parts: to suffer dis He nerer pat d or disemposed counselor, or The state of being disconsolate or com- ruption or separation of substance Bacon near serat, sare ony Star.ey. Bacon. i fortless. (Rare.) STX. To disorier deranze, unsettle, disturb, Disconsolation (dis-kon'ső- lä" shon), n. Discontinuee (dis-kon-tin'ü-ė), n. In law, disconcert, azitate, ruffle, fret, vex. Want of comfort. Disconsolation and one of whom something is discontinued. Discomposedness (dis-kom-pöz'ed-nes), n. heavinese' Bp. Hall. [Rare or obsolete. ) Discontinuer (dis-kon-tin'ūér), n. One who The state of being discomposed; disquiet- Discontent (riis-kon-tent), n. (Prefix dis, discontinues a rule or practice. ude. | pris., and content. ] 1. Want of content; un- Discontinuity (dis-kon'tin-ū"i-ti), n. Want merges DISCONTINUOR 49 DISCOURSE able paper. of continuity or uninterrupted connection; Discordantness (dis-kord'ant-nes), 12. The One who discourages by cold treatment, disunion of parts; want of cohesion. state of being discordant; inharmoniousness. frowns, censure, or expression of disapproBoth may pass for one stone and be polished without Discordful (dis-kord'ful), a. Quarrelsome; bation; one who checks or depresses by any blemishing discontinuity of surface. Boyle. contentious. ‘Stirred by his discord full unfriendly regards. Milton, in regard to the discontinuity of agency, dame. Spenser. Discounter (dis kount-ér), n. One who ad is in the same predicament as Homer. Landor Discordoust (dis-kord'us), a. Discordant; vances money on discounts. Discontinuor (dis-kon-tin'ū-ér), n. In law, dissonant. *Discordous jars.' Bp. Hall. Discourage (dis-ku'rāj), v.t. pret. & pp. disone who discontinues. Discorporatet (dis-kor’por-at), a. (Prefix couraged; ppr. discouraging. (Prefix dis, Discontinuous (dis-kon-tin'ū-us), a. 1. Bro- dis, priv., and corporate.] Deprived of cor- priv., and courage; Fr. décourager. See ken off: interrupted. “A path that is zigzag, porate privileges. COURAGE.] 1. To extinguish the courage of; discontinuous, and intersected.' De Quincey. Discounselt (dis-koun'sel), v.t. To dissuade. to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to 2. Separated; wide; gaping. ‘Discontinu Him the Palmer from that vanity deject; to deprive of confidence. Orls wound.' Millon. With temperate voice discounselled. Sponser. Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest Disconveniencet (dis-kon- vē'ni-ens), n. Discount(dis kount), n. (Prefixdis, neg., and they be discouraged. Col. iii. 21. A necessary disconvenience, where anything is payment; an allowance or deduction from courage an effort. Fotherby. a sum due or from a credit; a certain rate The apostle discourages too unreasonable a preDisconvenient (dis-kon-vē'ni-ent), a. Inper cent. deducted from the credit price of sumption. Rogers. convenient; incongruous. goods sold on account of prompt payment, Syn. To dishearten, dispirit, depress, deject, Discophora (dis-kof'o-ra), n. pl. [Gr. diskos, or any deduction from the customary price, discountenance. a quoit, and phero, to carry. ] 1. A sub-class or from a sum due or to be due at a future Discourage (dis-ku'rāj), n. Want of courage; of the Hydrozoa, comprising most of the time. Thus the merchant who gives a credit cowardice. Elyott. organisms known as sea-jellies, jelly-fishes, of three months will deduct a certain rate Discouragement (dis-ku'rāj-ment), n. 1. The or sea-nettles, the last name being derived per cent. for payment in hand, and the act of disheartening or depriving of courage; from the power which they possess, in holder of a note or bill of exchange will the act of deterring or dissuading from an common with all members of the class, of deduct a certain rate per cent. of the amount undertaking; the act of depressing confiatinging by means of their thread-cells. of the note or bill for advanced payment, dence.- 2. That which discourages; that The body is composed of a soft gelatinous which deduction is called a discount -2. In which abates or depresses courage, confitissue, but contains so little solid matter banking, a charge made for interest of dence, or hope; that which deters or tends that a medosa weighing several pounds when money advanced on a bill or other docu- to deter from an undertaking, or from the alive is reduced nearly to as many grains ment not presently due. The discounts at prosecution of anything. • Persevering to when dried From the centre of the um- banking institutions are usually the amount the end under all discouragements.' Clarke. brella-like disc a single polypite or digestive of legal interest paid by the borrower and The books read at schools and colleges are full of individual is suspended. -2. A name some- deducted from the sum borrowed at the incitements to virtue and discouragements froin vice. times given to the order of annelids, Hirucommencement of the credit.-3. The act Swift. dinea, to which the leech belongs. See of discounting; as, a note is lodged in the 3. The state of being discouraged; depresLEECH. bank for discount; the banks have suspended sion. Discopodium (dis-ko-po'di-um), n. (Gr. discounts.- At a discount, below par; oppo Over-great discouragement might make them desperate. State Trials. diskos, a quoit, a disc, and pous, podos, a site at a premium; hence, in low esteem; in foot.] In bot. the foot or stalk on which One who disfavour; as, alchemy is now at a discount. Discourager (dis-ku'rāj-ér), n. or that which discourages; one who or that Discord (dis'kord), n. (Fr. discorde; L. a certain sum or rate per cent. from the which disheartens, or depresses the courage; discordia, disagreement, from discors, dis- principal sum; as, a merchant discounts 5 or one who impresses diffidence or fear of succordant --dis, and cor, cordis, the heart. ] 6 per cent. for prompt or for advanced pay cess; one who dissuades from an undertak1. Disagreement; want of concord or har- ment-2. To lend or advance the amount Discouraging (dis-ku'rāj-ing), a. Tending ing to dishearten or to depress the courage ; disheartening; as, discouraging prospects. agreement which produces angry passions, notes and bills of exchange on good security. Discouragingly (dis-ku’rāj-ing-li), adv. In contest, disputes, litigation, or war. a discouraging manner. Walsh. discursus, a running about, a conversation, from discurro, to ramble--dis, and curro, to 2. In music, disagreement of sounds; disson His application is to be discounted, as here irrele. run; It. discorso.) 1.7 Lit. a running about; Sir W. Hamilton, ance; a union of sounds which is inharmo hence, a shifting of ground, and traversing 4. To estimate a matter or take it into account to and fro as a combatant. nious, grating, and disagreeable to the ear, beforehand; to enjoy or suffer anything by or an interval whose extremes do not coal At last the caytive after long discourse, anticipation; to discuss and form conclu- When all his strokes he saw avoyded quite, esce. Thus the key-note and the second, when sounded together, make a discord. sions concerning any event before it occurs; Resolved in one to assemble all his force. Spenser as, he discounted all the pleasure of the 2. † The act of the understanding by which it passes from premises to consequences; the to the interval, but more properly to the Speculation as to the political crisis is almost at an end, and the announcement to be made to-morrow in act which connects propositions, and demixed sound of dissonant tones. It is the House of Commons has been already so fully dis. duces conclusions from them; reasoning; opposed to concord. counted that it is shorn of much of its interest. reason; an act or exercise of reason. Arins on armour clashing bray'd Scotsmar newspaper. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Milton. Discount (dis-kount'), v.i. To lend or make Looking before and after, gave us not a practice of lending money, deducting the That capability and godlike reason To rust in us unused. Shak. Difficult, strange, and harsh to the discourses of natural reason. South. for longer terms. Syy. Disagreement, discordance, variance, Discountable (dis - kount'a-bl), a. That 3. A running over a subject in speech; hence, difference, opposition, dissension, conten may be discounted; as, certain forms are a communication of thoughts by words; tion, strife, rupture, clashing, dissonance. necessary to render notes discountable at expression of ideas; mutual intercourse; Discord + (dis-kord'), v.i. To disagree; to jar; a bank; a bill may be discountable for talk; conversation. Filling the head with to clash; not to suit; not to be coincident. more than sixty days. variety of thoughts, and the mouth with * The one discording with the other.' Bacon. Discount-broker (dis'kount-brök-ėr), n. One copious discourse.' Locke. Discordablet (ilis-kord'a-bl), a. Discordant. who cashes bills of exchange, and makes The vanquished party with the victors joined, Chaucer, Gower. advances on securities. Nor wanted sweet discourse, the banquet of the Discordance, Discordancy (dis-kord'ans, Discountenance (dis-kount'ten-ans), , v. t. mind. Dryden. dis-korid'an-si), 11. [See DISCORDANT.) Dis 4. A written treatise; a formal dissertation; (Prefix dis, priv., and countenance ] 1. To agreement; opposition; inconsistency. The abash; to ruffle or discompose the coun a homily; a sermon; as, the discourse of Pludiscordance of these errors.'_Bp. Horsley. Discordancies of interest.' tarch on garrulity; of Cicero on old age; an T. Warton. tenance; to put to shame; to put out of eloquent discourse. -5.7 Intercourse; dealcountenance. Discordant (dis-kord'ant), a. [L. discordans, ing; transaction. Beau. & Fl. How would one look from his majestic brow ... ppr. of discordo, to be at variance, to disagree, Discountenance her despised. Discourse (dis-kors'), v.i. pret. & pp. dis Millon. from discorx, disagreeable. See DISCORD.) coursed; ppr. discoursing. 1. To communi The hermit was somewhat discountenanced by this 1. Disagreeing; incongruous; contradictory; observation. Sir F. Scott. cate thoughts or ideas orally, especially in a being at variance; as, discordant opinions; 2. To set one's countenance against; to formal manner; to treat upon in a solemn, discordant rules or principles. testify disapprobation of; to discourage; to set manner; to hold forth; to expatiate; to The discordant elements out of which the em. check; to restrain by frowns, censure, argu converse; as, to discourse on the properties peror had compounded his realm did not coalesce. Motley. of the circle; the preacher discoursed on the nature and effect of faith. Thu How likes she my discourse? Pro. III, when you talk of war. who was willing to serve them. Shak. son; not harmonious; not accordant; harsh; Be careful to discountenance in children anything that looks like rage and furious anger. Tillotson. 2. To treat of or discuss a subject in a jarting; as, discordant notes or sounds. formal manner in writing. Sex. Disagreeing, incongruous, contradic Discountenance (dis-kount' ten-ans), n. tory, repugnant, opposite, contrary, contra- Cold treatment; unfavourable aspect; un- The general maxims we are discoursing of are not rious, dissonant, harsh, jarring. friendly regard; disapprobation; whatever known to children, idiots, and a great part of mankind. Locke. Discordantly (dis-kord’ant-li), adv. Distends to check or discourage. 3. To reason; to pass from premises to con sonantly; in a discordant manner; incon- He thought a little discountenance on those persistently; in a manner to jar or clash; in sons would suppress that spirit. sequences. Clarendon. Brutes do want that quick discoursing power. disagreement with another or with itself. Discountenancer (dis-kount'ten-ans-ér), n. Shak. ch, chain; ch, Sc. loch; & go; j, job; fi, Fr. ton; ng, sing; TH, then; th, thin; w, wig, wh, whig; zh, azure. --See KEY. vant. |