DISCOURSE 50 DISCRETION scenes. Discourse (dis-körs'), v.t. 1. To treat of; to Nothing discoverable in the lunar surface is ever Discreditably (dis-kred'it-a-bli), adv. In a covered. Bentley talk over; to discuss. discreditable manner. Let us discourse our fortunes. Shak. Discoverer (dis-kuv'ér-ér), n. 1. One who Discreditor (dis-kred'it-ér), n. One who discredits, 2. To utter or give forth. discovers; one who first sees or espies; one who finds out or first comes to the know- Discreet (dis-krēt), a. (Fr. discret, from L. It will discourse most eloquent music. Shak. ledge of something. "The discorerers and discretus, pp. of discerno, to separate, dis3. To talk or confer with. searchers of the land.' Sir W. Raleigh. — tinguish between, discern. See DISCERN.) I have spoken to my brother, who is the patron, to 2. † A scout; an explorer. 1. Distinct; distinguishable. discourse the minister about it. Evelyn. The waters' fall, with difference discreet, Shak. Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call. Spenser. courses; a speaker; a haranguer. Discovert (dis-kuv'ért), a. In law, not covert; 2. Prudent; wise in avoiding errors or evil, In his conversation he was the most clear dis. not within the bonds of matrimony; applied and in selecting the best means to accomcourser, Milward. either to a woman who has never been mar plish a purpose; circumspect; cautious; 2. The writer of a treatise or dissertation. ried, or to a widow. wary; not rash. Discoursive (dis-körs'iv), a. 1. Having the Discoverte,ta. (0. Fr.) Uncovered; naked; It is the discreet man, not the witty, nor the learned, character of discourse; reasoning; passing unprotected. nor the brave, who guides the conversation, and gives from premises to consequences; discursive. An idel man is like to a place that hath no walles; measures to society. Addison. Milton. -2. Containing dialogue or conver thereas deviles may Shoot at him discoverte by A room in a sober, discreet family, who would not sation; interlocutory. temptation on every side. Chaucer. be averse to admit a sober, discreet, virtuous, frugal, regular, good-natured man of a bad character. The epic is interlaced with dialogue or discoursive Discoverture (dis-kuv'ert-ūr), n. [Fr. dé Hume, Dryden. couvert, uncovered.) A state of being free 3. Civil; polite. (Scotch.) 3. Conversable; communicative. from coverture; freedom of a woman from I canna say I think it vera discreet o' you to keep He found him a complaisant man, very free and 1. The action pushing in before me in that way. Blackwood's Mag. discoursive. Discovery (dis-kuv'e-ri), n. -Cautious, Wary, Cire nspect, Prudent, Discourteous (dis-kör'tē-us), a. (Prefix dis, as, by the discovery of a plot the public Discreet. See under CAUTIOUS. priv., and courteous.) Wanting in courtesy; peace is preserved. -2. The act of revealing; Discreetly (dis-krētli), adv. Prudently; cir. uncivil; rude; uncomplaisant. a making known; a declaration; as, a bank- cumspectly; cautiously; with nice judgment He resolved to unhorse the first discourteous knight. rupt is bound to make a full discovery of of what is best to be done or omitted. Transl. of Don Quixote. his estate and effects. Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Discourteously (dis-kórtē-118-li), adv. In She dares not thereof make discovery. Shak. Could it be known what they discreetly blot l'aller. a rude or uncivil manner; with incivility. Then covenant and take oath Discreetness (dis-krét'nes), n. The quality Discourteousness (dis-kor' tē-us-nes), n. To my discovery. Chapman. of being discreet; discretion. Incivility; discourtesy. Discourtesy (dis-kör'tė-si), n. [Prefix dis, 3. The act of finding out or of bringing for Discrepance, Discrepancy (dis’krep-ans or priv., and courtesy. ] Incivility; rudeness of the first time to sight or knowledge. Har dis-krep'ans, dis’krep-an-si or dis-krep'anbehaviour or language; ill manners; act of vey's discovery of the circulation of the si), n. (L. discrepantiu, from discrepo, to disrespect. blood.' Sir W. Hamilton. "Territory ex give a different sound, to vary, to jar--dis, Be calm in arguing: for fierceness makes tended by a brilliant career of discovery and and crepo, to creak. See CREPITATE.) DifError a fault, and truth discourtesy. G. Herbert. conquest.' Prescott.-4. The act of espying; ference; disagreement; contrariety: appli cable to facts or opinions. Discourtship+ (dis-kört'ship), n. (Prefix first sight of. dis, priv., and courtship. ] Want of respect. On the discovery of land I ordered the lead to be There is no real discrepancy between these two Faber. kept going genealogies. Capt. Thomas. Monsieur, we must not so much betray ourselves to discour ship, as to suffer you to be longer un5. That which is discovered, found out, or Discrepant (dis'krep-ant or dis-krep'ant), a. saluted. B. Monson. revealed; that which is first brought to Different; disagreeing; contrary; dissimilar. Discous (disk'us), a. (From L. discus. ) light, seen, or known; as, the properties of As our degrees are in order distant, Disc-shaped; discoid. See DISCOID. the magnet were an important discovery. So the degrees of our strengths are discrepant, Heynecod. Discovenant (dis-kuv'en-ant), v.t. To dis- In religion there have been many discoveries, but Discrepantt (diskrep-ant or dis-krep'ant), solve covenant with, (in true religion, I mean) no inventions, n. One who disagrees or dissents from Discover (dis-kuv'èr), v. t. (Prefix dis, priv., Abp. Trench. another, especially in religious belief; a and cover (which see)) 1. To uncover; to lay 6. In the drama, the unravelling of a plot, dissenter. open to view; to disclose: to make visible; or the manner of unfolding the plot or fable If you persecute heretics or discrepants, they unite hence, to show; to exhibit; to let be seen of a comedy or tragedy. -7. In law, the act themselves as to a common defence. Jer, Taylor. and known. of revealing or disclosing any matter by a Go, draw aside the curtains, and discover defendant in his answer to a bill of chan Discrete (dis’krēt), a. (L. discretus. See The several caskets to this noble prince. Shak. cery.-Invention, Discovery. See INTENTION. DISCREET.] 1. Separate; distinct; disjunct. A short time I hope will discover the generosity of Discradle + (dis-krā'dl), v. i. (Prefix dis, The parts are not discrete or dissentany. Milton. his sentiments and convince you that my opinion of and cradle.) To come forth from, or as him has been more just than yours, 2. Disjunctive; as, I resign my life, but not Goldsmith. from a cradle; to emerge or originate. The truth reveals itself in proportion to our patience my honour, is a discrete proposition.-3. In and knowledge, discovers itself kindly to our plead This airy apparition first discradled music, applied to a movement in which ing, and leads us, as it is discovered, into deeper From Tournay into Portugal. Ford. each successive note varies considerably in truths. Ruskin. Discrase (dis'krās), n. (Gr. dis, double, and pitch: opposed to concrete (which see). - Dis2. To reveal; to make known; to tell. 'Dis krasis, mixture.) A rare but valuable ore of crete proportion, proportion where the ratio cover . . . what cause that was.' Shak. silver, consisting of antimony and silver. of two or more pairs of numbers or quantities Then. Joan, discover thine infirmity; It occurs in hexagonal prisms, massive, dis- is the same, but there is not the same proThat warranteth by law to be thy privilege. seminated or granular. It is found in meta- portion between all the numbers; as, Shak. morphic strata, alone or associated with 3:6::8:16, 3 bearing the same proportion 3. To espy; to have the first sight of; as, a other ores. to 6 as 8 does to 16. But 3 is not to 6 as man at the mast-head discovered land. Discredit (dis-kred'it), n. [Prefix dis, priv., 6 to 8 It is thus opposed to continued or When we had discovered Cyprus we left it on the and credit.] 1. Want of credit or good re- continual proportion; as, 3:6:: 12: 24.-A left hand. Acts xxi. 3. putation; some degree of disgrace or re- discrete quantity, a quantity which is not 4. To find out; to obtain the first knowledge proach; disesteem: applied to persons or continued and joined together in its parts, of; to come to the knowledge of something things; as, frauds in manufactures bring as any number, since a number consists of sought or before unknown; as, Columbus them into discredit. units : opposed to continued quantity, as discovered the variation of the magnetic It is the duty of every Christian to be concerned duration or extension. needle; we often discover our mistakes too for the reputation or discredit his life may bring on Discretet (dis'krēt), v.t. To separate; to dislate. Some to discover islands far away.' his profession. Rogers. continue. Shak.-5. To find out, as something con- 2. Want of belief, trust, or confidence; dis- Discretion (dis-kre'shon), n. (Fr. discretion, cealed; to detect; as, we discovered the arti- belief; as, later accounts have brought the from L. discretio, a separating; discretus, fice; the thief, finding himself discovered, story into discredit.-SYN. Disesteem, dis- discerno. See DISCREET) 1. Disjunction; attempted to escape.-6. To make anything repute, dishonour, unbelief, disbelief, dis- separation. Mede.-2. The quality of being cease to be a covering. trust. discreet; prudence; that discernment which The voice of the Lord maketh the hinds to calve Discredit (dis-kred'it), v.t. 1. To disbelieve; enables a person to judge critically of what and discovereth the forests. Ps. xxix. 9. to give no credit to; not to credit or believe; is correct and proper, united with caution; For the greatness of thy iniquity are thy skirts dis- as, the report is discredited.–2. To deprive nice discernment and judgment, directed covered and thy heels made bare. Jer. xiii. 22. of credit or good reputation; to make less by circumspection, and primarily regarding -Discover, Invent. Both agree in signifying reputable or honourable; to bring into dis- one's own conduct; sagacity; circumspecto find out; but we discover what before esteem; to bring into some degree of dis- tion; wariness; caution. existed, though to us unknown; we invent grace or into disrepute. Discretion is the victor of the war, what did not before exist. See INVENTION. He least discredits his travels who returns the Valour the pupil. Massinger. SYN. To disclose, exhibit, show, manifest, same man he went. Wotton, The better part of valour is discretion. Shak. reveal, communicate, impart, tell, espy, find Myself would work eye dim, and finger lame, The happiness of life depends on our discretion. out, detect. Far liefer than so much discredit him. Tennyson. Young: Discovert (dis-kuv'èr), v.i. To uncover; to 3. To deprive of credibility; to destroy con 3. Liberty or power of acting without other unmask one's self. This done they discover.' fidence or trust in. control than one's own judgment; as, the Decker. He had fram'd to himself many deceiving promises management of affairs was left to the disDiscoverable (dis-kuv'èr-a-bl), a. 1. That of life, which I have discredited to him, and now is cretion of the prince; he is left to his own may be discovered; that may be brought to he resolved to die. Shak. discretion; hence, to surrender at discrelight, seen, or exposed to view; that may be Discreditable (dis-kred'it-a-bl), a. Tending tion, is to surrender without stipulation or found out or made known; as, many minute to injure credit; injurious to reputation; terms, and commit one's self entirely to the animals are discoverable only by the help of disgraceful; disreputable. power of the conqueror. It is a rule of the the microscope; the Scriptures reveal many This point Hume has laboured, with an art which law of England, that where anything is things not discoverable by the light of reais as discreditable in a historical work as it would be left to another to be done according to his son. ---2. Apparent; exposed to view. adınirable in a forensic address. Macaulay. discretion it must be done with sound dis DISCRETIONARILY 51 DISDAIN cretion and according to law. This rule is Take heed of abetting any factions, or applying Discuss(dis-kus'), v. t. [L.discutio, discussum, also fully recognized in the law of Scotland. any public discriminations in matters of religion. to shake or strike asunder, break up, scat Bp. Ganden, ter, dissipate-dis, asunder, and quatio, to shon-a-ri-li, dis-kre'shon-al-li), adv. At discretion; according to discretion. acuteness, acumen, judgment, distinction. shake, strike, drive.] 1. To shake or strike Discretionary, Discretional (dis-kreshon asunder; to break up; to disperse; to scatter; Discriminative (dis-krim'in-at-iv), a. 1. That makes the mark of distinction; that consti to dissolve; to repel; as, to discuss a tumour. a-ri, dis-kre'shon-al), a. Left to discretion; tutes the mark of difference; characteristic; A pomade ... of virtue to discuss pimples.' unrestrained except by discretion or judgas, the discriminative features of men. Rambler. ment; that is, to be directed or managed by 2. That observes distinction. • Discrimina Consider the threefold effect of Jupiter's trisulk, discretion only. Thus, an ambassador at a to burn, discuss, and terebrate. Sir T. Browne. tive Providence.' More. foreign court is in certain cases invested with discretionary powers, to act according 2. To shake off; to put away. Dis All regard of shame she had discust. Spenser to circumstances. Discretive (ilis-krēt'iv), a. (See DISCREET Discriminator (dis-krim'in-at-ér), n. One criminatirely used.' Mede. 3. To debate; to agitate by argument; to clear of objections and difficulties, and DISCRETE.) 1. Disjunctive; noting who discriminates. with a view to find or illustrate truth; to separation or opposition. A discretive Discriminatory (dis-krim'in-ā-to-ri), a. conceptualist.' Coleridge. (Rare. )-2. Sepa sift; to examine by disputation; to ventiDiscriminative. late; to reason on, for the purpose of separate; distinct. (Rare or obsolete.) Dis Discriminoust (dis-krim'in-us), a. Hazard- rating truth from falsehood. We might discuss the Northern sin, Which made a selfish war begin. Tennyson. tion, or variety, by means of but, though, criminous state. Harvey. yet, &c.; as, travellers change their climate, 4. To speak; to declare; to explain. but not their temper; Job was patient, Discrown (dis-kroun'), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv., Discuss unto me; art thou officer, though his grief was great. -Discretive disand crown.) To deprive of a crown. Or art thou base, common, and popular? Shak, tinction, in gran a distinction implying The chief Discuss the same in French to him, Shak. opposition as well as difference; as, not a Seems royal still, though with her head discrowned. 5. To make an end of, by eating or drinking; man, but a beast. to consume; as, to discuss a fowl; to discu88 Discretively (lis-krēt'iv-li), adv. In a dis- Discubitory (dis-kū bi-to-ri), a. [L.L. discubitorius, from L. discumbo, to lie down, re a bottle of wine. (Colloq.)-6. In Scots law, cretive manner. cline-dis, and cubo, to lie down or lean.) (a) to do diligence against a principal Discriminable (dis-krim'in-a-bl), a. That Leaning: inclining;fitted to a leaning posture. debtor, under any obligation, before promay be discriminated. Bailey. (Rare or obsolete.] Disculpate (dis-kul'pāt), v.t. pret. & pp. ceeding against his cautioner or cautioners, Discriminal (dis-krim'in-al), a. (L. discrim. disculpated; ppr. disculpating. [Prefix dis, in a case where the parties were not bound inalis, that serves to divide, from discrimpriv., and L. culpare, to blame, from culpa, jointly and severally. (6) To sue an heir for any debt due by his ancestor, in respect ino. See DISCRIMINATE.) In palmistry, a a fault.) To free from blame or fault; to term applied to the line marking the separexculpate; to excuse. of the particular subject inherited, before proceeding against any of the other heirs; ation between the hand and the arm, called How hast thou escaped from above? thou hast corrupted thy guards, and their lives shall answer it. also, to do diligence against an heir who also the Dragon's-tail. My poverty, said the peasant calmly, will disculpate has been burdened with a special debt, beDiscriminate (dis-krim'in-āt), y.t. pret. & them. Horace l'alpole, fore insisting against the heir-at-law. pp. discriminated; ppr. discriminating: [L Disculpation (dis-kul-pā'shon), n. Excul Discussable (dis-kus'a-bl), a. That may be dixcrunino, discriminatum, to divide, distin pation. guish, from discrimen, discriminis, that Disculpatory (dis-kul'pa-to-ri), a. Tending Discusser (dis-kus'ér), n. One who discusses; discussed, debated, or reasoned about. J. which separates or divides, from dis,asunder, to exculpate. and root kri, separation, knowledge, the Discumbency (dis-kum'ben-si), n. [L. dis one who sifts or examines. same root as cer in cerno. See CRIME.) 1 To cumbens, ppr of discumbo. See DISCUBI Discussion (dis-ku'shon), n. 1. The act or distinguish; to observe the difference be TORY.] The act of leaning at meat, accord- process of discussing, breaking up, or retween; as, we may usually discriminate true ing to the manner of the ancients. (Rare.) solving; dispersion, as of a tumour, coagufrom false modesty. lated matter, and the like. -2. Debate; dis The Greeks and Romans used the custom of disWhen a prisoner first leaves his cell he cannot bear cumbency at meals, Sir T. Browne. quisition; the agitation of a point or subject the light of day; he is unable to discrunmate colours with a view to elicit truth; the treating of or recognize faces. Macaulay. a subject by argument to clear it of diffi2. To separate; to select; as, in the last priv., and cumber.) To unburden; to throw culties and separate truth from falsehood. judgment the righteous will be discriminoff anything cumbersome; to disengage from The authority of law and the security of property ated from the wicked. --3. To mark with any troublesome weight or impediment; to notes of difference; to distinguish by some disencumber. His limbs discumber'd of the were found to be compatible with a diberty of discus. sion and of individual action never before known. Macaulay. note or mark; as, we discriminate animals clinging vest.' Pope (Rare or obsolete.) 3. In Scots law, a technical term signifying by names, as nature has discriminated them Discuret (dis-kūr), v.t. [Contr. from 0. É. by different shapes and habits. discouere for discover.) To discover; to the doing diligence against a principal reveal. In out ward fashion debtor in a cautionary obligation before .. discriminated from all “The plain truth unto me discure.' the nations of the earth. Hammond. proceeding against the cautioners, or against Discurrentt (dis-kurrent), a. (Prefix dis, an heir for a debt due by his ancestor in reDiscriminate (dis-krim'in-át), v.i. Το make a difference or distinction; to observe Discursion (dis-kér'shon), n. [L. discurro, neg., and current.] Not current. spect of the subject to which he has suc ceeded before proceeding against the other or note a difference; to distinguish; as, in to run different ways-dis, apart, and curro, heirs, &c. See Discuss, 6. the application of law and the punishment to run.) 1. A running or rambling about.- Discussional (dis-ku'shon-al), a. Of or perof crimes the judge should discriminate between degrees of guilt; in judging of evi2. Rambling or desultory talk; expatiation. taining to discussion. Edin. Rev. Discussive (dis - kus'iv), a. 1. Having the Because the word discourse is commonly taken for dence, we should be careful to discriminate the coherence and consequence of words, I will, to power to discuss, resolve, or disperse tumbetween probability and slight presumption. avoid equivocation, call it discursion. Hobbes. ours or coagulated matter.--2. Having the Discriminate (dis-krim'in-át), a. Distinguished; having the difference marked. 3. The act of discoursing or reasoning. power to settle or bring to a conclusion; deColeridge. No discriminate sex.' Bacon. terminative; decisive. Unless the spirit of God comes in by its undeniable witness to Discriminately (dis-krim'in-at-li), adv. Dis-Discursistt (dis-kers'ist), n. (See DISCURtinctly; with ininute distinction; particuSION.) A disputer. silence all its objections, and to resolve all larly. Great discursists were apt ... to dispute the its doubts by a kind of peremptory and disDiscriminateness (dis-krim'in-at-nes), n. prince's resolution and stir up the people. cussive voice.' Hopkins. L. Addison Discussive (dis-kus'iv), n. A medicine that Distinctness; marked difference. Discursive (dis-kérs'iv), a. [Fr. discursis, discusses; a discutient. Discriminating (dis-krim'in-at-ing), p. and from L. discursus. See DISCOURSE.] 1. Pass- Discutient (dis-kūʻshent), a. (L. discutiens, 1 Separating; distinguishing; marking with notes of difference. -2. Serving to dis ing rapidly from one subject to another; ppr. of discutio. See DISCUSS.) Discussing; criminate; distinguishing; peculiar; characdesultory; rambling; digressional. dispersing morbid matter. Into these discursive notices we have allowed our. Discutient (dis-kū’shent), n. A medicine or terized by peculiar differences; distinctive; selves to enter. De Quincey. application which disperses a tumour or any as, the discriminating doctrines of the gospel. coagulated fuid in the body. 2. Argumentative; reasoning; proceeding Souls have no discriminating hue, Disdain (dis-dān), v.t. [0. Fr. desdaigner; regularly from premises to consequences; Cowper. Alike important in their Maker's view. rational. Sometimes written Discoursive. Fr. dédaigner; It disdegmare, from L. dis, priv., and dignor, to deem worthy, from 3. That discriminates; able to make nice Whence the soul dignus, worthy. See DEIGN.) To think distinctions; as, a discriminating mind. Discursive or intuitive. Milton. unworthy; to deem worthless; to consider Discrimination (dis-krim'in-a"shon), n. to be unworthy of notice, care, regard, 1. The act of distinguishing; the act of Discursively (dis-kérs'iv-li), adv. Argumenmaking or observing a difference; distinctatively; in the form of reasoning or argu esteem, or unworthy of one's character; to ment. scorn; to contemn; to reject as unworthy tion; as, the discrimination between right and wrong.-2. The faculty of distinguishDiscursiveness (dis-kers’iv-nes), n. Range of one's self; as, the man of elevated mind ing or discriminating; penetration; judg. or gradation of argument. disdains a mean action; Goliath disdained David. ment; as, a man of nice discrimination. Discursory (dis-ker'so-ri), a. Having the Whose fathers I would have disdained to set with Their own desire of glory would so mingle with the dogs of iny flock. Job xxx, I. what they esteemed the glory of God, as to baffle argumentative. (Rare.) 'Tis great, 'tis manly, to disdain disguise. Young. their discrimination. Milman, Here your Majesty will find ... positive theology 3. The state of being discriminated, distin with polemical, textual with discursory. Bp. Hall Disdain (dis-dân'), v.i. To be filled with guished, or set apart. Discursus (dis-kers'us), n. (L.) Ratiocina scorn, anger, or impatience; to be indig nant. There is a reverence to be showed them on the tion; argumentation; discourse. Ajax, deprived of Achilles's armour, which he account of their discrimination from other places, Discus (diskus), n. [L. "See Dish and DISC ) hoped from the suffrage of the Greeks, disdains; and separation for sacred uses, Stilling flect. 1. A quoit; a piece of iron, copper, or stone. and, growing impatient of the injury, rageth and runs 4. That which discriminates; mark of dis- to be thrown in play, used by the ancients, mad. B. Fonsor. tinction. See cut DISCOBOLUS.—2. A disc (which see). Disdain (dis-dân), n. 1. A feeling of conDISDAINED 52 DISENGAGE tempt, mingled with aversion, abhorrence, fected or afflicted with disease; disordered; the bowels; to eviscerate. -2. To take or or indignation; the looking upon anything deranged; distempered; sick. draw from the bowels, as the web of a spider. as beneath one; contempt; scorn. “Pride, lle was diseased in body and mind. Macaulay. Disembowelled web.' Philips. haughtiness, opinion and disdain.' Shak. Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth ReHow my soul is moved with just disdain. Pope. Shak. moved from a bower, or deprived of a Diseasedness (diz-ez'ed-nes), n. You sought to prove how I could love, The state bower. And my disdain is my reply. Tennyson. of being diseased; a morbid state; sickness. Disembranglet (dis-em-brang'gl), v.1. [Dis, 2. + State of being despised; the state of Diseaseful (diz-ěz'ful), a. 1. Abounding priv., em for en, verb-forming prefix, and feeling one's self disgraced; ignominy; dis- with disease; producing disease; as, a dis brangle.) To free from litigation; to free grace. easeful climate. -2. Occasioning uneasiness; from dispute, squabbling, and quarrelling. They say he yesterday cored Hector in the battle troublesome. Bacon For God's sake disenbrangle these matters, that and struck him down, the disdain and shame whereof Diseasefulness (diz-ēz'fyl-nes), n. State of I may be at ease to mind my own affairs. hath ever since kept Hector fasting and waking, Bp. Berkeley. being diseaseful; trouble; trial. Sir P. SidShak Disembroil (dis-em-broil'), 0.t. (Prefix dis, ney. 3. That which is worthy of disdain. Most Diseasement (diz-ēz'ment), n. Uneasiness; priv., and embroil.) To disentangle; to free loathsome, filthy, foul, and full of vile disinconvenience. from perplexity; to extricate from confudain.' Spenser. -SYN. Scorn, scornfulness, Disedge (dis-ej'), v.t. (Prefix dis, priv., and sion. Addison. contempt, arrogance, haughtiness, pride, superciliousness. edge. To deprive of an edge; to blunt; to Disemploy (dis-em-ploi'), r.t [Prefix dis, make dull. (Rare.) neg., and employ.) To throw out of emDisdained (dis-cland'), p. anda. 1. Despised; Served a little to disedge ployment; to relieve or dismiss from busicontemned; scorned. -2. Disdainful. The sharpness of the pain about her heart. ness, Revenge the jeering and disdain'd contempt Tennyson. If personal defailance be thought reasonable to disof this proud king: Shak. Disedify + (dis-ed'i-fī), v.t. [Prefix dis, neg., onploy the whole calling, then neither clergy nor laity should ever serve a prince. Disdainful (ilis-dān'ful), a. Full of or ex Fer. Taylor. and edity.) To fail of edifying. Warburton. pressing disdain; contemptuous; scornful; Disembark (dis-em-bark'), v. t. (Prefix dis, Disenable (dis-en-a'hl), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv., haughty; indignant; as, disdainful soul; a priv., and embark.) To land; to debark; to and enable. ] To deprive of power, natural disdainful look. 'A disdainful smile.' remove from on board a ship to the land, to or moral; to disable; to deprive of ability or Gray. means. landing of troops and munitions of war; as, The sight of it may damp me and disenalle me to Turning disdainful to an equal good. Akenside. the general disembarked the troops at sun speak State Trials. Disdainfully (dis-dān'fyl-li), adv. Contemp- rise. Disenamoured (dis-en-am'érd), p. and a. tuously: with scorn; in a haughty manner. Go to the bay and disembark my coffers. Shak. [I'retix dis, priv., and enamoured.) Freed Disdainfulness (dis-dān'ful-nes), n. Con- Disembark ('lis-em-bark'), v.i. To land; to from the bonds of love. Don Quixote dixtempt; contemptuousness; haughty scorn. debark; to quit a ship for residence or ac enamoured of Dulcinea del Toboso.' SkelDisdaining (dis-dän'ing), n. Contempt; tion on shore. ton. scorn. There is a report current to the effect that the next Disenchant (dis-en-chant), v.t. (Prefix dis, Say her disdainings justly must be gracid division will not diseinbark at Malta, priv., and enchant.] To free from enchantWith name of chast. Donne. W. H. Russell. ment; to deliver from the power of charms Disdainous, + Disdeinoust (dis-dān'us), a. Disembarkation (dis-em bärk-ä''shon), n. or spells; to free from fascination or deluDisdainful Chaucer. The act of disembarking. sion. Disdainouslyt (dis-dän'us-li), adv. Disdain Disembarkment (dis-em-bärk'ment), n. Haste to thy work; a noble stroke or two fully. Ends all the charms, and disenchants the grove. Dryden. or that which disenchants. the quadruple ratio of 4:1 or 8: 2. embarrassment or perplexity; to clear; to Disenchantment (dis-en-chant'ment), n. extricate. Disease (diz-ez'), n. [Prefix dis, priv., and We have disembarrassed it of all the intricacy Act of disenchanting, or state of being disease] 1.7 Lack or absence of ease; pain; which arose from the different forins of declension, enchanted. uneasiness; distress; trouble; trial; discom- of which the Romans had no fewer than five, Blair. Disencharm (dis-en-chärm), v. t. (Prefix dis, fort. Disembarrassment (dis-em-ba'ras-ment), priv., en, verb-forming prefix, and charm.) All that night they past in great disense n. The act of extricating from perplexity. To free from incantation; to disenchant. Till that the morning, bringing early light To guide men's labours, brought them also ease. Disembay (dis-em-ba'), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv., Fear of sin had disencharmed him, and caused him Spenser. and embay) To navigate clear out of a bay. to take care lest he lose the substance out of greedi. ness to possess the shadow. Disembellish (dis-em-bel'ish), v. t. (Prefix Five days we do allot thee, for provision Fer. Taylor. To shield thee from diseases of the world. dis, priv., and embellish.) To deprive of Disencrese, t n. [Dis, priv., and 0.E. en Shak. crese, E. increase.) Diminution. Chaucer. 2. Any morbid state of the body generally, Disembitter (dis-em-bit'ter), v. t. [Prefix Disencrese, t v.i. (Fr.) To decrease. Chauor of any particular organ or part of the dis, priv., and embitter.) To free from bit- cer. body; the cause of pain or uneasiness; dis terness; to clear from acrimony; to render Disencumber (dis-en-kum'bėr), v.t. [Prefix temper; malady; sickness; disorder; any sweet or pleasant. dis, priv., and encumber.) To free from enstate of a living body in which the natural Encourage such innocent amusements as may dis. cumbrance; to deliver from clogs and imfunctions of the organs are interrupted or embuter the minds of men. Addison, pediments; to disburden; as, to diseneumdisturbed, either by defective or preter; Disembodied (dis-em-bo'did), a. 1. Di- ber troops of their baggage; to disencumber natural action, without a disruption of vested of the body. the mind of its cares and griefs; to disenparts by violence, which is called a wound. cumber the estate of debt. How shall I know thee in the sphere that keeps Diseases may be local, constitutional, spe The disembodied spirits of the dead? Bryant, cific, idiopathic, symptomatic or sympa Ere dim night had disencumbered Heaven. Milion. thetic, periodical, acute, chronic, sporadic, 2. Discharged from military incorporation. I have disencumbered myself from rhyme, epidemic, endemic, intercurrent, contagious Disembodiment ( dis-em-bo'di -ment), n. Dryden. or infectious, congenital, hereditary, ac 1. The act of disembodying.-2. The condi- Disencumbrance (dis-en-kum'brans), n. quired, sthenic, asthenic. The word is also tion of being disembodied. Freedom or deliverance from encumbrance applied to the disorders of other animals, as Disembody (dis-em-bo'di), v.t. [Prefix dis, or anything burdensome or troublesome; well as to those of man; and to any de priv., and embody.] 1. To divest of body; release from debt; as, the disencumbrance rangement of the vegetative functions of to free from flesh.-2. To discharge from of an estate. plants. military incorporation; as, the militia was Disendow (dis-en-dou'), v.t. [Prefix dis, The shafts of disease shoot across our path in such disembodied. neg., and endow.) To deprive of an endowa variety of courses, that the atmosphere of human Disembogue (dis-em-bog'), v.t. pret. & np. ment or endowments, as a church or other life is darkened by their number, and the escape of disembogued; ppr. disemboguing. [Prefix institution. an individual becomes almost miraculous. dis, and einbogue. See EMBOGUE.) To pour Disendowment (dis-en-dou'ment), n. The Buckminster. out or discharge at the mouth, as a stream; act of depriving or divesting of an endow3. Any disorder, or depraved condition or to vent; to discharge into the ocean or a ment or endowments. element, moral, mental, social, political, lake. Disenfranchise (dis-en-fran'chiz), v.t. [Pre&c. Rolling down the steep Timavus raves, fix dis, priv., and enfranchise.) To deprive An't please you, it is the disease of not listening, the malady of not marking, that I am troubled And through nine channels disembogues his waves. of privileges or rights; to disfranchise. withal Shak. Addison Disenfranchisement (tis- en -fran'chiz 1. To flow Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet ment), n. The act of disenfranchising; disout, as at the mouth; to become discharged; they are good for us, because they discover to us our franchisement. disease and tend to our cure. Tillotson. to gain a vent; as, innumerable rivers disThe instability, injustice, and confusion introduced embogue into the ocean. Disengage (dis-en-gāj), v.t. pret. & pp. dis engaged; ppr, disengaging. [Prefix dis, priv., into the public councils have, in truth. been the Volcanoes bellow ere they disembogue. Young. mortal diseases under which popular governinents and engage.] 1. To separate, as a substance have everywhere perished. Madison. 2. Naut. to pass across, or out of the mouth from anything with which it is in union; to Syn. Distemper, ailment, malady, disorder, Disemboguement (dis-em-bogʻment), 1. of a river, gulf, or bay, as a ship. free; to loose; to liberate; as, to disengage a metal from extraneous substances. sickness, illness, indisposition, complaint, infirmity. Discharge of waters into the ocean or a Caloric and light must be disengaged during the lake. Disease 1 (diz-ēz'), v.t. To pain; to make process. Latvisier, Disembosom (dis-em-bö'zum), v.t. [Prefix uneasy; to distress dis, priv., and embosom.] To separate from 2. To separate from that to which one adHis double burden did him sore disease. Spenser. heres or is attached; as, to disengage a man the bosom. Though great light be insufferable to the eyes, yet from a party.-3. To disentangle; to extrithe highest degree of darkness does not at all dis Uninjur'd from our praise can He escape, cate; to clear from impediments, difficulties, Who, disonhosoni'd from the Father, bows ease them. Locke. The heaven of heavens, to kiss the distant earth. or perplexities; as, to disengage one from Diseased (diz-ēzd'), p. and a. 1. Ill at ease. Young. broils or controversies. 4. To detach; to Disembowel (dis-em-bou'el), v.t. pret. & withdraw; to wean; as, to disengage the Would on her own palfrey him have eased, For pitty of his dame whom she saw so disca sed. pp. disembouelled; ppr. disembowelling. heart or affections from early pursuits. Spenser. (Prefix dis, priv., and embowel.) 1. To de- 5. To free from anything that commands 2. Having the vital functions deranged; af. prive of the bowels or of parts analogous to the mind or employs the attention; as, to DISENGAGE 53 DISGLORIFY disengage the mind from study; to disengage All the while the disentrayled blood or oppose by disapprobation. 'Countenanced one's self from business.-6. To release or Adowne their sides like little rivers stremed. or disfavoured according as they obey.' Spenser. Swift. Disfavourable (dis-fā'ver-a-bl), a. Unfamen who were enlisted are now disengaged; vourable. trance or from deep sleep; to arouse from a Fortune disfavourable.' Stowo. the lady who had promised to give her hand reverie; to free from a delusion. Disfavourably (dis-fā'vér-a-bli), adv. Unin marriage is disengaged. --Sex. To separate, favourably. Mountague. Ralpho, by this time disentrancd, liberate, free, loose, extricate, clear, disen Upon his bum himself advanced. Hudibras. Disfavourer (dis-fa'vér-ér), n. One who tangle, detach, withdraw, wean. discountenances. ] free from the state featured; ppr. dixfeaturing. [Prefix dis, untwist. Shelley. priv., and feature.] To deprive of features; to disfigure. from dis, and sero, to connect.] Eloquent. DISFIGURE.) 1. The act of disfiguring or (Rare.] Disengaged (dis-en-gājd), p. and a. 1. Se Disesperaunce,t n. [Prefix dis, priv., marring external form; defacement. -2. The and state of being disfigured; disfigurement; deparated; detached; set free; released; dis- Fr. espérance, hope.] Despair. formity. joined; disentangled.-2. Vacant; being at Send me such penance leisure; not particularly occupied; not hav As liketh thee, but from me disesperannce. Disfigure (dis-fi'gūr), v.t. pret. & pp. disChaucer. figured; ppr. disfiguring. (Prefix dis, priv., ing the attention confined to a particular Disespouse + (dis-es-pouz'), v.t. [Prefix dis, and figure.) To change to a worse form; to object. -3. Expressive of freedom from care priv., and espouse.) To separate after es- mar the external figure of; to impair the or attention; easy. pousal or plighted faith; to divorce. shape or form of; to injure the beauty, Everything he says must be in a free and disen. Rage symmetry, or excellence of; to deface; to gaged minner. Spectator. of Turnus for Lavinia disespoused. Milton. deform. Disfiguring not God's likeness but Disengagedness (dis-en-gāj'ed-nes), n. Disestablish (dis-es-tab'lish), v.t. (Prefix their own.' Milton.-SYN. To deface, de1. The quality or state of being disengaged; dis, priv., and establish.] 1. To remove from form, mar, injure. freedom from connection, disjunction. establishment; to cause to cease to be esta Disfiguret (dis-fl'gūr), n. Deformity. Chau2. Freedom from care or attention. cer. blished; specifically, to withdraw, as a Disengagement (dis-en-gāj'ment), n. 1. The church, from its connection with the state. Disfigurement(dis-fi'gūr-ment), n. 1. The act act or process of disengaging or setting free; 2. To unsettle; to break up. of disfiguring or state of being disfigured; Separation; extrication. Disestablishment (dis-es-tab'lish-ment), n. change of external form to the worse. It is easy to render this disengagement of caloric and light evident to the senses. The act of depriving, or the condition of *Their foul disfigurement.' Milton.-2. That Lavoisier being deprived, of the position and privi which disfigures. 2. The state of being disengaged or set free. leges of an established body; specifically, Uncommon expressions ... are a disfigurement rather than any embellishment of discourse. Hume, The disengagement of the spirit is to be studied the act of withdrawing a church from its and intended. Montagu. connection with the state. Disfigurer (dis-fi'gūr-ér), n. One who dis3. Liberation or release from obligation. -- The earnest and active attention of the Society is figures. 4. Freedom from engrossing occupation; directed to procure not only the repeal of the Blas. Disflesh (dis-flesh'), v.t. (Prefix dis, priv., vacancy; leisure. bersama we as a speci matter affecting its mem. and flesh.) To deprive of flesh; to render and the disestablishment and disendowment of less obese. Skelton Disengagement is absolutely necessary to enjoy. all State Churches, but also the redistribution of real Same as Disafment, Bp. Butler. Disforest (dis-foʻrest), v. t. and personal property, the regulation of wages, and Disennoble (dis-en-nobl), v.t. (Prefix dis, the abolition of the House of Lords. Sat. Rev. forest. priv., and ennoble.) To deprive of title or of Disesteem (dis-es-tēm'), n. [Prefix dis, neg., Disfranchise (dis-fran'chiz), v.t. pret. & pp. that which ennobles; to render ignoble; to disfranchised; ppr. disfranchising. (Prefix and esteem.] Want of esteem; slight dislike; degrade. dis, priv., and franchise.) To deprive of the disregard. rights and privileges of a free citizen; to An unworthy behaviour degrades and disennobles They go on in opposition to general disesteem. deprive of chartered rights and immunities; Taller. to deprive of any franchise, as of the right of voting in elections, &c. fix dis, priv., and enrol.] To erase from a a moderate degree; to consider with disre Disfranchisement (dis-fran'chiz-ment), 1. roll or list. gard, disapprobation, dislike, or slight con The act of disfranchising, or state of being Disensanity (dis-en-san'i-ti), n. [Prefix dis, tempt; to slight. disfranchised; deprivation of the privileges priv., en, in, and sanity.) Insanity; folly. But if this sacred gift you disesteem. Denham. of a free citizen, or of some particular imWhat tediosity and disensanity 2. To bring into disrepute or disfavour; to munity. Is here among you? Beau. & FI. lower in esteem or estimation; to detract Disfriart (dis-fri'er), v.t. (Prefix dis, priv., Disenslavet (dis-en-sláv'), v.t. (Prefix dis, from the worth of. and friar.) To depose from being a friar; priv., and enslave.] To free from bondage. What fables have you vexed, what truth redeemed, to divest of the office and privileges of a friar; to unfrock. Şir T. More. B. Jonson. Disfurnish (dis-fér'nish), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv., and furnish.) To deprive of furnidis, priv., and entangle. ] 1. To unravel; to esteem; bad repute. ture; to strip of apparatus, habiliments, or untwist; to loose, separate, or disconnect Three kinds of contempt; disestimation, disap equipage; to divest. from being interwoven or united without pointment, calumny. Bp. Reynolds. I am a thing obscure, disfurnish'd of order; as, to disentangle net-work; to dis. Disexerciset (dis-eks'ér-siz), v.t. [Prefix dis, All merit. Massinger. entangle a skein of yarn. -- 2. To free; to priv., and exercise.) To deprive of exercise; Disgaget (dis-gāj'), v.t. (Prefix dis, priv., extricate from perplexity; to disengage from to cease to use. By disexercising our abili- and gage.] To free, relieve, or release complications; to set free; to separate; as, ties.' from pledge or pawn; to redeem. He taketh those who had liever lay to gage and political affairs, or from the cares and temp- and fancy.) Not to fancy; not to be pleased pawn their goods, and remain under the burden of tations of life. *To disentangle truth from with; to dislike. usury, than to sell up all and disgage themselves at llolland. error.' D. Stewart.-SYN. To unravel, un- Those are titles that every man will apply as he twist, loosen, extricate, disembarrass, disem- lists, the one to himself and his adherents, the other Disgallant + (dis-gallant), v.t. [Prefix dis, to all others that he disfancies. Hammond. broil, clear, disengage, separate. priv., and gallant.) To strip or divest of Disentanglement (lis-en-tang'gl-ment), n. Disfashiont (dis-fa'shon), v. t. [Prefix dis, gallantry or courage. Sir, let not this discountenance or disgallant you culty or shape; to disfigure. It (gluttony). a whit; you must not sink under the first disaster. Disenter (dis-en-tér), v.t. Same as Disinter. disfashioneth the body.' Sir T. More. B. Jonson. Disenthrall (dis-en-thral'), v.t. [Prefix dis, Disfavour (dis-fa'vėr), n. (Prefix dis, neg., Disgarland 1 (dis-gärland), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv., and enthrall . ] To liberate from slavery, and favour.) 1. Dislike; slight displeasure; priv., and garland.) To divest of a garland. bondage, or servitude; to free or rescue from discountenance; unfavourable regard; dis- Forsake thy pipe, a sceptre take to thee, Drummond. Thy locks disgarland. oppression esteem; as, the conduct of the minister inIn straits and in distress curred the disfavour of his sovereign. Disgarnish (dis-gär'nish), v.t. (Prefix dis, Thou didst me disentirall. Milton. Those same misdeeds have raised an energetic priv., and garnish.] 1. To divest of garniDisenthralment (dis-en-thral'ment), n. sentiment of disfavour against its ally. Gladstone. ture or ornaments. 'Not disgarnished nor Liberation from bondage; emancipation from 2. A state of unacceptableness; a state in unprovided of the same. Bp. Hall.--2. To slavery. which one is not esteemed or favoured, or deprive of a garrison, guns, and military Disenthronet (dis-en-thron'), v.t. (Prefix not patronized, promoted, or befriended; Disgarrison (dis-ga'ri-son), v.t. [Prefix dis, apparatus; to degarnish. priv., and garrison.) To deprive of a garri- Disgavel (dis-ga'vel), v.t. pret. & pp. dis- gavelled; ppr. disgavelling. (See GAVEL He might dispense favours and disfavours. and entitle.) To deprive of title or claim. Clarendon. KIND) In law, to take away the tenure of (Rare.) -To speak, insinuate, dic., in disfavour of gavel-kind from: said of lands. Every ordinary offence does not disentitle a son to a person, to speak, insinuate, &c., to his dis. Disgestt (dis-jest'), v. t. To digest. Bacon. the love of his father. South advantage, and with the view of putting him Disgestion t (dis-jest'yon), n. Digestion. Bacon. Disglorify (dis-glõ'ri-fī), v.t. [Prefix dis, to disinter. Those enemies of Joseph insinuated to her a thou priv., and glorify.) To deprive of glory; to Disentrail, Disentraylet (dis-en'tral), v.t. sand things in his disfavour. Fielding treat with indignity. (Very rare.] [Prefix dis, priv., and entrail.) To deprive Disfavour (dis-fä'vėr), v.t. To discounte So Dagon shall be magnified, and God, Besides whom is no God, compar'd with idols, of the entrails or bowels; to disembowel; nance; to withdraw or withhold from one Shall be disglorified, blasphem'd, and had in scorn. to draw forth, favour, friendship, or support; to check Milton. once. son. DISGLORY 54 DISHERISON In & ration. Disglory + (dlis-glo'ri), n. (Prefix dis, priv., grex, gregis, a flock.] To separate; to dis- taste; nauseous; exciting aversion in the and glory.) Deprivation of glory; dis- perse. natural or moral taste. honour. * To the disglory of God's name.' Disguise (dis-giz'), v. t. pret. & pp. disguised; The crooked, curving lip by instinct taught, Northbrooke. ppr. disguising. (O. Fr. desguiser, to coun- In imitation of disgustful things. 7 Baillie. Disgorge (dis-gorj),v.t. pret. & pp. disgorged; terfeit or put a false coat or gloss on; Fr. Disgustfulness (dis-gust'fyl-nes), n. State ppr. disgorging. [0. Fr. desgorger, to vomit; déguiser--prefix dis, and guise, way, fancy, of being disgustful. Fr. dégorger, to clear-L dis, from, and gorge, manner. See GUISE! 1. To conceal the the throat. See GORGE) 1. To eject or guise or appearance of by an unusual habit Disgustingly (dis-gust'ing-li), ado. manner su as to give disgust. discharge from, or as from, the stomach, or mask. Dish (dish), n throat, or mouth; to vomit; to discharge; (A. Sax. disc, a plate, table, Bunyan was forced to disguise himself as a wagto give up. • To see his heaving breast dish; like D. disch, G. tisch, a table, goner. Macaulay. disgorge the briny draught. Dryden. 2. To hide by a counterfeit appearance; to from L. discus, Gr. diskos, a quoit or flat The deep-drawing barks do there disgorge cloak by a false show, by false language, or circle of stone, wood, or metal, hence, a trencher, a dish. Their warlike fraughtage. an artificial manner; as, to disguise anger, See DESK, DISC.] 1. A Snak. broad open vessel made of various materi2. To throw out with violence; to discharge sentiments, or intentions. als, used for serving up meat and various violently; as, volcanoes disgorge streams of They agree in another respect, as well as in style. kinds of food at the table. It is sometimes burning lava, ashes, and stones. All are either ruins, or fragments disguised by resto used for a deep hollow vessel for liquors. Rusku. 2. The meat or provisions served in a dish; Into the burning lake their baleful streams. Milton. They saw the faces, which too well they knew, hence, any particular kind of food; as, a dish of veal or venison; a cold dish; a 3. To yield, as what has been taken wrong. Though then disguised in death. Dryden. warm dish; a delicious dish.-3. In mining, fully: to give up; to surrender; as, to disgorge 4. To change in manners or behaviour by his ill-gotten gains. a trough in which ore is measured, about the use of spirituous liquor; to intoxicate. 28 inches long, 4 deep, and 6 wide. Disgorgement (dis-gorj'ment), n. The act I have just left the right worshipful, and his myrof disgorging Loathsome disgorgements 4. In agri a hollow place in a field in which midons, about a sneaker of five gallons; the whole water lies. --5. The state of being concave of their wicked blasphemies.' Bp. Hall. magistracy was pretty well disguised before I gave Disgospelt (dis-gos'pel), v. i. (Prefixdis, priv., them the slip. Spectator. or like a dish; concavity; as, the dish of a wheel. and gospel.) To be inconsistent with the It is most absurdly said of any man that he is disprecepts or doctrines of the gospel; to perguised' in liquor: for, on the contrary, most men are Dish (dish), v.i. To be concave or have disguised by sobriety, . . and it is when they are a form resembling that of a dish: said of vert or abuse the gospel. Milton. drinking that men display themselves in their com. wheels; as, this wheel dishes very much. Disgrace (lis-grăs'), n. [Prefix dis, priv., plexion of character. De Quincey. (See Dish, v. t.) and grace.) 1. A state of being out of favour; Conceal, Hide, Disguise, Secrete. See Dish (dish), v.t. 1. To put in a dish; as, the disfavour; disesteem; as, the minister reunder CONCEAL. meat is all dished and ready for the table. tired from court in disgrace.-2. State of Disguise (dis-giz'), n. 1. A counterfeit habit; ignominy; dishonour; shame. For conspiracy a dress intended to conceal the person who I know not how it tastes; though it be disk'd These old pheasant lords, wears it; as, by the laws of England persons For me to try. Shak, Who had mildew'd in their thousands, doing nothing Since Egbert-why, the greater their disgrace! doing unlawful acts in disguise are subjected 2. In mech. to make concave. A carriage Tennyson. to heavy penalties, and in some cases de- wheel is said to be dished when the spokes 3. Cause of shame; as, every vice is a dis clared felons.--2. A false appearance; a are inclined to the nave, so that the wheel grace to a rational being. counterfeit show; artificial or assumed lan- is concave on one side, or of the form of a And is it not a foul disgrace guage or appearance intended to deceive; dish, while the other side, which is placed To lose the boltsprit of thy face? Baynard. as, a treacherous design is often concealed next the carriage, is convex. - To dish out, 4. Want of grace of person; physical de- under the disguise of great candour. to form coves by wooden ribs. 3. To frusformity: Praise undeserved is scandal in disguise. Pope. trate or disappoint; to render useless; to Their faces damage; to ruin; to cheat. To dish the Most foule and filthie were, their garments yet, 3. Change of manners and behaviour by Being all rag'd and tatter'd, their disgraces drink; intoxication. (Colloq.) Whigs.' Lord Derby. (Slang.) Where's Brummell? Dished. Byron. 5.1 Act of unkindness. tongue Dishabilitate (dis-ha-bil'i-tāt), v.t. (Prefix Splits what it speaks: the wild disguise hath almost The interchange continually of favours and dis. Antickt us. Spenser. dix, priv., and habilitate.) To disqualify; to graces. Bacon. disentitle. 4.1 A masque; an interlude. '(He) that Syn. Disfavour, disesteem, opprobrium, re Dishabilitation (dis-ha-bil'it-ă"shon), n. made dixquises for the king's sons.' B. Jonproach, discredit, disparagement, ignominy, Disqualification: a term used by old Scots 80n. dishonour, shame, infamy. law authorities to signify the corruption of O, what a mask was there, what a disguisel Milton. Disgrace (dis-grās'), v. t. pret. & pp.disgraced; blood consequent upon a conviction for With dis- treason. ppr. disgracing. 1. To put out of favour: Disguisedly (dis-giz'ed-li), adv. to dismiss with dishonour. Flatterers of guise. Dishabille (dis'a-bil), n. An undress; desthe disgraced minister.' Macaulay.--2. To Disguisedness (dis-giz'ed-nes), n. The state habille (which see). treat ignominiously; to do disfavour to; to of being disguised. Bp. Hall. (Rare.) We have a kind of sketch of dress, if I may so call Act of bring shame or reproach on; to sink in Disguisementt (dis-giz'ment), n. it, among us. called a dishabille; everything is esteem or estimation; to dishonour. disguising; dress of concealment; false ap- thrown on with a loose and careless air, Guardian. pearance. Spenser. Shall heap with honours him they now disgrace. Dishabit + (dis-hab'it), v.t. (Prefix dis, priv., Disguiser (dis-giz'er), n. 1. One who con and habit for inhabit.] To drive from a His ignorance disgraced him. Fohnson ceals another by a disguise; a disfigurer. habitation; to dislodge. 3. To revile; to upbraid; to heap reproaches ‘Death's a great disguiser.' Shak.--2. One Those stones . . . from their fixed beds of lime upon. Had been dishabited. Shah. dexterous disguiser.' Swift. The goddess wroth 'gan foully her disgrace. Spenser. Disguising (dis-giz'ing), n. 1. The act of Dishable, + v. t. (L. dis, priv., and hable, an Syn. To degrade, humiliate, humble, dis- giving a false appearance. --2. Theatrical old form of E. able.] 1. To disable. — 2. To parage, defame, dishonour. mummery or masking. disparage. Disgraceful (dis-gras'fyl), a. Shameful; re At such a time Spenser proachful; dishonourable; procuring shame; As Christmas, when disguising is o' foot. B. Jonson. sinking reputation. Disgust (dis-gust'), n. [0. Fr. desgoust; Fr. Disharmonious (dis-här-mo'ni-us), a. (PreTo retire behind their chariots was as little dis. d goût, from L. dis, priv., and gustus, taste.] fix dis, neg., and harmonious. ] Incongruous; inharmonious graceful then, as it is now to alight from one's horse 1. Disrelish; distaste; aversion to the taste in a battle. Pope. of food or drink; an unpleasant sensation ex Disharmony (dis-härmo-ni), n. [Prefix dis, Disgracefully (dis-grās'fyl-li), adv. In a cited in the organs of taste by something neg., and harmony.) Want of harmony; disgraceful manner; with disgrace; as, the disagreeable, and when extreme producing discord; incongruity. troops fled disgracefully. loathing or nausea.--2. Repugnance to any- A disharmony in the different impulses that conthing offensive or loathsome; unpleasant stitute it (our nature). Coleridge. The senate have cast you forth disgracefully. B. Jonson. sensation in the mind excited by something Dishaunt (dis-hant'), v. t. [Prefix dis, priv., SYN. Shamefully, ignominiously, dishonour- offensive in the manners, conduct, language, and haunt.) To cease to haunt; to quit; to ably, basely, vilely. or opinions of others; dislike or aversion leave. Disgracefulness (dis-grās'fyl-nes), n. Ig- arising from satiety, disappointment, and Dish-catch (dish'kach), n. A rack for nominy; shamefulness. the like. dishes. Disgracer (dis-grās'ér), n. One who or that In a vulgar hack-writer such oddities would have Dish-cloth, Dish-clout (dishkloth, dish'which disgraces, or exposes to disgrace; one excited only disgust. Macaulay. klout), n. A cloth used for washing and who or that which brings into disgrace, SYN. Aversion, distaste, disrelish, loathing, wiping dishes. shame, or contempt. repugnance, dislike. Dishearten (dis-härt'n), v. t. (Prefix dis,priv., Disgracioust (dis-grā'shus), a. (Prefix dis, Disgust v.t. 1. To excite aver- and he ten. To discourage; to deprive of neg., and gracious.] Ungracious; unpleasing. sion in the stomach of; to offend the taste of. courage; to depress the spirits of; to deject; 'If I be so disgracious in your sight. Shak. 2. To displease; to offend the mind or moral to impress with fear; as, it is weakness to Disgracivet (dis-gras'iv), a. Tending to taste of: with ator with, formerly with from; be disheartened by small obstacles. -- SYN. disgrace. Every disgracive word which he as, to be disgusted at foppery or with vulgar To dispirit, discourage, depress, deject, dehears is spoken of him.' Feltham. manners. ter, terrify Disgradation (dis-gra-da'shon), n. In Scots What disgusts me from having anything to do Disheirt (dis-ar), v.t. (Prefix dis, priv., laro, degradation; deposition; specifically, with this race of answer-jobbers is, that they have no and heir, to inherit.] To debar from inthe stripping of a person of a dignity or de sort of conscience. Swifi. heriting. gree of honour, and taking away the title, 3. + To taste with dislike; to feel a distaste Dishelm (dis-helm'), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv., badge, and privileges thereof. for; to have an aversion to; to disrelish. and helm, helmet.) To divest of a helmet. Disgradet (dis-grád), v.t. To degrade. By our own fickleness, and inconstancy, disgust. When she saw me lying stark, Foxe. ing the deliverance now it is come, which we so Dishelm'd and mute, and motionlessly pale. Disgregatet (dis'grē-gāt), v.t. (L. disgrego, earnestly desired before it came. Abp. Tillotson. Tennyson. disgregatum, to separate-dis, asunder, and Disgustful (dis-gust'ful), a. Offensive to the Disherisont (dis-heʼri-son), n. (See Dis Pope. |