DISHERIT 55 DISINTEREST HERIT.] The act of disinheriting or cutting ful; reproachful; base; vile; bringing shame rous acid, chloride of lime, carbolic acid, &c. off from inheritance. on; staining the character and lessening As disinfectants, ammonia, camphor, musk, Many a one here is born to a fair estate, and is reputation; as, every act of meanness and and volatile oils are of doubtful efficacy; stripped of it, whether by the just disherison of his every vice is dishonourable.-2. Destitute of they, for the most part, merely disguise father, or else loy the power or circumvention of an honour; unhonoured; as, a dishonourable odours by substituting a more pleasant and adversary or by his own misgovernment and un. man. powerful smell for an unpleasant one. thriftiness. Bp. Hall. PurificaDisherit (dis-he'rit), v.t. (Fr. déshériter, to We petty men ... find ourselves dishonourable Disinfection (dis-in-fek'shon), n. graves, Shak. tion from infecting matter. disinherit-des for dis, priv., and heriter, to 3. In a state of neglect or disesteem. Disingenuity (dis-in'je-nü"i-ti), n. (Prefix inherit. See INHERIT, HEIR.) To disinherit; He that is honoured in poverty, how much more in dis, neg., and ingenuity.) Disingenuousness; to cut off from the possession or enjoyment riches, and he that is dishonourable in riches, how unfairness; want of candour. of an inheritance. Southey. much inore in poverty. Ecclus X. 31. A habit of ill nature and disingenuity necessary to their affairs. Clarendon. of disheriting or state of being disinherited. Quality of being dishonourable. Beau. . Fl. Dishonourably (dis-on’ér-a-bli), ado. Re- Disingenuous (dis-in-jen'ū-us), a. (Prefix Disheritor (dis-he'rit-ér), n. One who puts proachfully; in a dishonourable manner. dis, neg., and ingenuous.] 1. Not ingenuanother out of his inheritance. Dishonourer (dis-on’ér-ér), n. One who ous; not open, frank, and candid; meanly artful; illiberal: applied to persons. Dishevel (di-she'vel), v.t. pret. & pp. dishe- dishonours or disgraces; one who treats telled; ppr. dishevelling. (O. Fr. descheveler, another with indignity. Persons entirely disingenuous who do not believe Fr. déchereler, to put the hair out of order, Dishorn (dis-horn'), v.t. the opinions they defend. Hume. [Prefix dis, priv., des for dis, priv., and 0. Fr. chevel, Fr. cheveu, and horn.) To deprive of horns. Shak. 2. Not open or high-toned; unbecoming true hair, from L. capillus, the hair of the head. Dishorse (dis-hors), v.i. To dismount from honour and dignity; as, disingenuous conTo spread the locks or tresses of loosely and horseback. duct; disingenuous schemes. ---SYN. Unfair, negligently; to suffer to hang negligently Thrice uncandid, insincere, hollow, crafty, sly, cunand uncombed : said of the hair, and used They clash'd together, and thrice they brake their ning. chiefly in the passive participle. spears. Disingenuously (dis-in-jen'ū-us-li), adv. In Tennyson. a disingenuous manner; unfairly; not openly Dishevel (di-she'vel), v.i. To be spread or Dishumour (dis-u'mër), n. (Prefix dis, priv.: Disingenuousness (dis-in-jen'u-us-nes), n. and candidly; with secret management. to hang in disorder. and humour.) Peevishness; ill humour. Spectator. The state or quality of being disingenuous; unfairness; want of candour; low craft; as, Dishevele,+ pp. (Fr.) Dishevelled. Chau- of humour. the disingenuousness of a man or of his B. Jomson. mind or conduct. The disingenuousness of embracing a profession to which their own hearts have an inward reluctance. will hold. pied wagtail. Dr. H. More. Dishonest (dis-on'est), a. (Prefix dis, priv., Dish-water (dish'wa- tér), n. Water in Disinhabited t (dis-in-hab'it-ed), p. and a. and honest, L honestus, honourable. ] which dishes are washed. [Prefix dis, priv., and inhabited.) Deprived 1. Void of honesty; destitute of probity, in- Disillusionize (dis-il-lū'zhon-iz), v.t. Prefix of inhabitants. tegrity, or good faith; faithless; fraudu- dis, priv., and illusion.) To free from illulent; knavish; having or exercising a dispo Exceeding rough mountains ... utterly disin. sion; to disenchant. habited and void of people. Hackluyt. sition to deceive, cheat, and defraud: applied Disimpark (dis-im-pärk), v.t. [Prefix dis, Disinherison (dis-in-he'ri-son), n. [Prefix to persons; as, a dishonest man.--2. Propriv., and impark.) To free from the dis, priv., and inherit.] 1. The act of cutting ceeding irom fraud or marked by it; fraudu. barriers of a park; to free from restraints lent; knavish; as, a dishonest transaction.--- or seclusion. (Rare.) off from hereditary succession; the act of 3. Disgraced; dishonoured: from the sense Disimprove (dis-im-pröv), v.t. (Prefix dis, disinheriting.-2. The state of being disin herited. Disinherit (dis-in-he'rit), v. t. [Prefix dis, Dryden. load the tree and disimprove the fruit. Jer. Taylor. 4. Disgraceful; ignominious: a Latinism. tary right; to deprive of an inheritance; to Disimprove (dis-im-pröv'), v.i. To grow prevent, as an heir, from coming into posInglorious triumphs, and dishonest scars. Pope. worse. session of any property or right which by 5. Unchaste; lewd. Disimprovement (dis-im-pröv'ment), n. law or custom would devolve on him in the I hope it is no dishonest desire, to desire to be a Reduction from a better to a worse state: course of descent; as, a father sometimes woman of the world (that is to be married). Shak. the contrary to improvement or melioration. disinherits his children by will; in England, Syx. Unfaithful, faithless, fraudulent, knav- * An utter neglect and disimprovement of the crown is descendible to the eldest son, ish, perfidious. the earth.' Norris. [Rare.) who cannot be disinherited by the will of Dishonest t (dis-on'est), v.t. To disgrace; Disincarcerate (dis-in-kär'sé-rāt), v. t. (Pre the parent. to dishonour. fix dis, priv., and incarcerate.) To liberate Disinheritance (dis-in-he'rit-ans), n. 1. Act I will no longer dishonest my house. Chapman. from prison; to set free from confinement. of disinheriting.–2. State of being disinDishonestly (dis-on'est-li), adv. 1. In a dis (Rare.) herited. honest manner; without good faith, pro Disinclination (dis-in klin-a"shon), n. [Pre- | Disinhume (dis-in-hūm'), v.t. (Prefix dis, bity, or integrity; with fraudulent views; fix dis, neg., and inclination.) Want of in priv., and inhume.) To disinter. (Rare.) knavishly.--2. Lewdly; unchastely. clination; want of propensity, desire, or Disintegrable (dis-in'tė-gra-bl), a. (See Dis affection; slight dislike; aversion; expressing INTEGRATE.) That may be separated into particles; capable of disintegration. 'Dis- Disappointment gave him a disinclination to the Argillo-calcite is readily disintegrable by exposure fair sex, Sir T. Elyot. Arbuthnot. honestly slain to the atmosphere. kirwan. Dishonesty (dis-on'est-i), n. 1. Want of Syn. Unwillingness, dislike, aversion, repug. Disintegrate (dis-in'tē-grāt), v.t. (L. dis, probity or integrity in principle; faithless- nance. priv., and integro, integratum, to renew, to ness; a disposition to cheat or defraud, or Disincline (dis-in-klīn), v.t. (Prefix dis, make sound or whole, from integer, entire, to deceive and betray: applied to persons.priv., and incline.] To excite dislike or whole.). To separate the component par2 Violation of trust or of justice; fraud; slight aversion; to make disaffected or un ticles of; to reduce to powder or to fragtreachery; any deviation from probity or willing; to alienate from; as, his timidity ments; as, rocks are disintegrated by frost, integrity: applied to acts.-3. Unchastity; disinclined him from such an arduous en rain, and other atmospheric influences. incontinence; lewdness. terprise. Disintegration (dis-in'tē-grā"shon), n. The Heaven be my witness ... if you suspect me of The tendency of such maxims is to disincline the act of separating the component particles Brougham. composition or the separation of its eleDishonorary (dis-on'é-ra-ri), a. Bringing neg., and inclose.) To free from inclosure; ments. Specifically, in geol. the wearing dishonour on; tending to disgrace; lessento throw open what has been inclosed; to down of rocks, chiefly resulting from the ing reputation. dispark Dishonour (dis-on'er), n. (Prefix dis, priv., Disincorporatet (dis-in-kor'po-rāt), a. Dis- Disinter (dis-in-tèm), v.t. pret. & pp. disin slow action of frosts, rains, and other atmo spheric influences. terred; ppr. disinterring. [Prefix dis, priv., It was not meet for us to see the king's dishonour. fix dis, priv., and incorporate.] 1. To and inter.] 1. To take out of a grave or out Ezra iv. 14. deprive of corporate powers; to disunite, of the earth; as, to disinter a dead body that Dishonour (dis-on'èr), v.t. 1. To disgrace; is buried.-2. To take out, as from a grave; as that which is a corporate body or an to bring from obscurity into view. (Rare.) The philosopher ... may be concealed in a plebcian, impunity of the crimes of great men dis- Disincorporation (dis-in-kor' po-rā"shon), which a proper education might have disinterret. honours the administration of the laws. Addison. n. Deprivation of the rights and privileges Disinteressed (dis-in'ter-est), a. Same as Nothing .. that may dishonour of a corporation; detachment or separation Disinterested Disinteressmentt (dis-in'tér-es-ment), n. Disinterest (dis-in'tér-est), n. (Prefix dis, neg., and interest.) 1. What is contrary to 3. To violate the chastity of; to debauch. – Disinfectant (dis-in-fekt'ant), n. An agent the interest or advantage; disadvantage; 4. To refuse or decline to accept or pay; as, for destroying the power or means of pro- injury. to dishonour a bill of exchange.-5. To de- pagating diseases which spread by infection They ought to separate from her (Church of Rome). prive of, or as of, ornament. His scalp or contagion; anything that purifies the air that there be no prejudice done to my true church, dishonour'd quite of hair.' Dryden. from noxious matters or removes odours or nor disinterest to thy kingdom. Dr. H. More. sry. To disgrace, shame, degrade, violate, hurtful organic substances from the ground, 2. Indifference to profit; want of regard to debauch, pollute. water, &c. The more common disinfectants private advantage. Dishonourable (dis-on’ér-a-bl), a. 1. Shame- are chlorine, bromine, sulphurous acid, nit- Disinterest t (dis-in’tér-est), v. t. To disenDISINTERESTED 56 DISLODGMENT gage from private interest or personal ad- Disjointed (dis-joint'ed), a. 1. Unconnected; A murmur rose That showed dislike among the Christian peers. vantage. incoherent; as, a disjointed discourse. Fairfar. A noble courtesy ... disinterests man of himself. The constancy of your wit was not wont to bring SYN. Disapprobation, disinclination, disFeltham, forth such disjointed speeches. Sir P. Sidity. Disinterested (dis-in'tér-est-ed), a. 1. Un pleasure, disrelish, dist ste, aversion, antiinterested; indifferent; free from self-inter 2. Out of joint; out of order or sorts; ill- pathy, repugnance, disgust. est; having no personal interest or private joined together. Dislike (dis-lik'), v.t. pret. & pp. disliked; Melancholy books advantage in a question or affair. ppr. disliking. 1. To disapprove of; to reWhich make you laugh that any one should weep Whately. Every true patriot is disinterested. gard with some aversion or displeasure; to In this disjointed life, for one wrong move. E. B. Browning. disrelish; as, we dislike proceedings which 2. Not influenced or dictated by private advantage; as, a disinterested decision. A Disjointedness (dis-joint'ed-nes), n. we deem wrong; we dislike persons of evil State habits; we dislike whatever gives us pain; pure tribute of disinterested reverence for of being disjointed. we dislike certain dishes.-2. To displease. extraordinary virtue.' Thirlwall. - Syn. Un- Disjointly (dis-joint'li), adv. In a divided I'll do't; but it dislikes me.' Shak. - 3. To biased, impartial, uninterested, indifferent, state. express disapprobation of. I never heard generous, unselfish, magnanimous. Disjudication (dis-jū'di-kā"shon), n. [See any soldier dislike it.' Shak. Disinterestedly. (dis-in'tér-est-ed-li), adv. DIJUDICATE.) Judgment; determination. Full of dislike; In a disinterested manner. Disjunct (dis-jungkt'), a. [L. disjunctus, Dislikefult (dis-lik'iul), a. Disinterestedness (dis-in'tér-est-ed-nes), n. pp. of disjungo-dis, and jungo, to join. ) disaffected; disagreeable. ' Dislikeful paine." Spenser. The state or quality of having no personal 1. Disjoined; separated. Glanville. ---2. In Dislikelihood (dis-lik’li-hyd), 1. [Prefix dis, interest or private advantage in a question entom. a term applied to an insect whose or event; freedom from bias or prejudice, head, thorax, and abdomen are separated neg., and likelihood] Want of likelihood; on account of private interest; unselfishby a deep incision. ---Disjunct tetrachords, Disliken (dis-lik’n), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv., improbability, Sir W. Scott. ness; generosity. in music, tetrachords having such a relation That perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of to each other that the lowest interval of the and liken] To make unlike; to disguise. (Rare.) Muffle your face, Dismantle you; and, as you can, disliken Disinterestingt (dis-in'ter-est-ing), a. Un- Disjunction (dis-jungk'shon), n. (L. dis The truth of your own seeming. Shak. interesting Long quotations of disinter- junctio.] 1. The act of disjoining: disunion; Dislikeness t (dis-lik'nes), n. (Prefix dis, esting passages.' Warburton. separation; a parting. The disjunction of priv., and likeness.] Unlikeness; want of Disinterment (dis-in-ter'ment), n. The act the body and the soul.' South.-2. In logic, resemblance; dissimilitude. Locke. of disinterring or taking out of the earth or a disjunctive proposition. [Rare.) Disliker (dis-lik'er), n. One who disapproves the grave; exhumation. One side or other of the following disjunction is or disrelishes. Disinthrall (ilis-in-thral), v.t. [Prefix dis, true. Paley. Dislimb (dis-lim), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv., and priv., and inthrall.) To disenthrall (which Disjunctive (dis-jungk’tiv), a. 1. Tending limb.) To tear the limbs from. see) to disjoin; separating; disjoining. — 2. In- Dislimnt (dis-lim), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv., Disinthralment (dis-in-thrąl'ment), n. Dis- capable of union. [Rare.] and limn.) To strike out of a picture; to enthralment (which see) Atoms of that disjunctive nature as not to be obliterate; to efface; to disfigure. Disintricate (dis-in'tri-kāt), v.t. [Prefix dis, united in a sufficient number to make a visible mass. That which is now a horse, even with a thought, priv., and intricate.) To free from intri Gremu, The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct. Shak. cacy; to disentangle. 3. In gram, marking separation or opposiIt is therefore necessary to disintricate the ques. tion; à term applied to a word or particle Dislink (dis-lingk); v.t. (Prefix dis , priv., and link.) To unlink; to disjoin; to sepation, by relieving it of these two errors, bad in them- which unites sentences or the parts of disselves, but worse in the confusion which they occa. rate. course in construction, but disjoins the sion. Sir W. Hamilton. There a group of girls sense; as, I love him, or I fear him; I neither In circle waited, whom the electric shock Disinure (dis-in-ūr'), 0.t. (Prefix dis, priv., love him nor fear him.-4. In logic, a term Dislink'd with shricks and laughter. Tennyson. and inure.) To deprive of familiarity or applied to a proposition in which the parts Dislivet (dis-liv'), v.t. (Prefix dis, priv., and custom; to render unfamiliar or unaccus- are opposed to each other by means of distomed Milton. live.) To deprive of life. "Telemachus dir junctives; as, it is either day or night; a lived Amphimedon.' Chapman. Disinvalidity (dis-in-va-lid'i-ti), n. [Pre- term applied to a syllogism in which the Dislocate (dislo-kat), v.t. pret. & pp. dislofix dis, intens., and invalidity.] Invalidity. major proposition is disjunctive; as, the Mountagu. cated; ppr. dislocating. [Prefix dis, priv., earth moves in a circle or an ellipsis; but it Disinvestiture (dis-in-vest'i-tūr), n. [Prefix and locate.) To displace; to put out of its does not move in a circle, therefore it moves dis, priv., and investiture.] The act of de proper place; particularly, to put out of in an ellipsis.-5. In music, pertaining to priving of investiture. joint; to disjoint; to move, as a bone, from disjunct tetrachords; as, a disjunctive inDisinvitet (dis-in-vit'), v. t. (Prefix dis, priv., its socket, cavity, or place of articulation. terval. and invite.] To recall an invitation. The strata on all sides of the globe were dislocated, 1. In gram. It'oodward, Disinvolve (dis-in-volv), v.t, [Prefix dis, a word that disjoins, as or, nor, neither.priv., and involve.] To uncover; to unfold The archbishop's see, dislocated or out of joint for 2. In logic, a disjunctive proposition. a time, was by the hands of his holiness set right or unroll; to disentangle. Disjunctively (dis-jungk’tiv-li), adv. In a again. Fuller Disjaskit (dis-jasʼkit), p. and a. [A corrup disjunctive manner; separately. tion of O. E. and Sc. disjected, Mod. E. de: Disjuncture (dis-jungk'tūr), ạ. Dislocate (dis'lő-kāt), a. Dislocated. Mont1. The act gomery. jected.] Jaded; decayed; worn out. [Scotch.) of disjointing or separating joints; the act Dislocation (dis-lo-kā'shon), n. 1. The act In the morning after the coronation I found myself of putting out of joint; dislocation. Bruises, of moving from its proper place; particuin a very disjaskit state, being both sore in lith and limb, and worn out in my mind with the great fatigue disjunctures, and brokenness of bones.' larly, the act of removing or forcing a bone I had undergone. Galt. Goodwin.-- 2. Separation; disunion. Wotton. from its socket; luxation. When dislocaDisjectiont (dis-jek’shon), n. [L. disjicio, Disjune, Dejune (dis-jón', de-jön), n. (See tion takes place as the result of violence it disjectum, to throw asunder, to scatter, from DEJEUNER.) Breakfast. [Scotch.) is called primitive or accidental; and when dis, asunder, and jacio, to throw.] Act of Did I not tell you, Mysie, that it was my especial it happens as a consequence of disease, overthrowing or dissipating. The sudden pleasure on this occasion to have everything in the which has destroyed the textures forming disjection of Pharaoh's host. precise order wherein it was upon that famous mornBp. Horsley. the joint, it is called consecutive or sponing when his most sacred Majesty partook of his Disjoin (dis-join'), v. t. (Prefix dis, neg., and disjunc at Tillietudlem. taneous Sir W. Scott, A simple dislocation is one unjoin.) To part; to disunite; to separate; to Disk, n. See DISC. attended by a wound communicating intersunder. Diskindness (dis-kind'nes), n. [Prefix dis, nally with the joint and externally with the air; and a compound dislocation is one which That inarriage, therefore, God himself disjoins, priv., and kindness.] 1. Want of kindness; lilton. is attended by such a wound. -2. The state SYN. To disunite, separate, sever, detach, unkindness; want of affection. -2. Il turn; dissever, sunder. injury; detriment. (Rare.) of being displaced, or of being out of joint; disorder or derangement of parts. Disjoin (dis-join'), v.i. To be separated; to The discourse is so far from doing any diskindness to the cause, that it does it a real service. Neither battle I see, nor arraying, nor king in Israel; part. Woodward. Only infinite jumble and mess and dislocation, Disjoint (dis-joint), v.t. (Prefix dis, neg., Disladet (dis-lad'), v. t. [Prefix dis, priv., and Clough. and joint.] 1. To separate the joints of; to lade.) To unlade. Heywood. 3. In geol. the displacement of parts of rocks, separate, as parts united by joints; to put Disladyt (dis-lā'di), v. t. [Prefix dis, priv., or portions of strata, from the situations out of joint; to force out of its socket; to and lady.) To deprive of the reputation or which they originally occupied: usually apdislocate; as, to disjoint the limbs; to dis- position of a lady. B. Jonson. plied to faults (which see). joint bones; to disjoint a fowl in carving Dislealt (dis-lē'ai), a. [Prefix dis, priv., and Dislodge (dis-loj'), v. t. pret. & pp. dislodged; 2. To separate at junctures; to break at the leal.] Perfidious; treacherous; disloyal. ppr. dislodging. (Prefix dis, priv., and lodge.] part where things are united; to break in 1. To remove or drive from a lodge or place Disleall knight, whose coward corage chose pieces; as, disjointed columns; to disjoint of rest; to drive from the place where a thing To wreake itselfe on beast all innocent. Spenser, an edifice; the disjointed parts of a ship.- naturally rests or inhabits. 3. To break the natural order and rela- Dislika ble (dis-lik'a-bl), a. Worthy of being The shell.fish which are resident in the depths, live tions of; to put out of order; to derange. disliked; displeasing; distasteful. and die there, and are never dislodged or removed by storms, nor cast upon the shore. Woodward. Were it possible for any power to add to it ever so One dislikes to see a man and poet reduced to little, it would at once overstep its bounds: the equi proclaim on the streets such tidings; but, on the 2. To drive from any place of hiding or de. librium would be disturbed; the framework of affairs whole, as matters go, that is not the inost dislikable, fence, or from any station; as, to dislodge would be disjointed. Buckle. Carlyle. the enemy from their quarters, from a hill [Prefix dis, priv., and Disjoint (dis-joint), v.i. To fall in pieces. like.] 1. Disapprobation; disinclination; dis or wall.-3. To remove to other quarters, But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds as an army. Shak. The Volscians are dislodged, and Marcius gone. Shat. clared.' Milton. Disjointt (dis-joint), a. Disjointed. 'Dis Dislodge (dis-loj), v.i. To go from a place joint and out of frame.' Shak. You discover not only your dislike of another, but of rest. of himself. Addison. Disjointt (dis-joint'), n. A difficult situa Though there is no violence used to drive out an tion. Our likings and dislikes are founded rather upon inhabitant, yet bad accommodations will make him humour and fancy than upon reason. L'Estrange. dislodge. South. But sith I see I stand in swiche disjoint, I wol answere you shortly to the point. Chaucer. 2. † Discord; disagreement. Dislodgment (dis-loj'ment), n. The act of DISLOGISTIC 57 DISOBEDIENT dislodging, or state of being dislodged; dis- and dismat all that you have in your troubled heart With thanks and pardon to you all, Skelton. and grieved entrails. placement; removal. I do dismiss you to your several countries. Shak. Dislogistic (dis-lo-jis'tik), a. Erroneous Dismay (dis-mā'), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv., and 2. To discard; to remove from office, service, spelling of dyslogistic (which see). Goth. magan, to be able, to be strong, to pre- or employment; as, the king dismisses his Disloign + (dis-loin'), v. t. [Prefix dis, asun- vail=A. Sax. magan, to be able, E. may, the ministers; the master dismisses his servant. der, and Fr. éloigner, to remove.) To re- word having passed from the Teutonic to Dismiss me, and I prophesy your plan, move to a distance. the Romance languages and thence into Eng- Divorced from my experience, will be chaff To every gust of chance. lish. Comp. 0. Fr. esmaier, to discourage, Tennyson. Low looking dales, disloign'd from common gaze. Spenser, Sp. and Pg. desmayar, to fall into a swoon, 3. In law, to remove from a docket; to disDisloyal (dis-loi'al), a. [Prefix dis, neg., &c. See AMAY.] 1. To deprive of that continue; to reject as unworthy of notice, or and loyal.) 1. Not true to allegiance; false strength or firmness of mind which consti- of being granted; as, to dismiss a bill in to a sovereign; faithless; as, a disloyal sub- tutes courage; to discourage; to dishearten; chancery; to dismiss a petition or a motion ject.—2 False; perfidious; treacherous. ‘A to sink or depress in spirits or resolution; in a court. false disloyal knave.' Shak.-3. Not true to hence, to affright or terrify. Dismiss t (dis-mis), n. Discharge; dismisthe marriage bed; false in love. * The lady sion. "Grief for their dismiss' Sir T. Herbert. is disloyal. Shak. --- 4. Not constant. 'Dis- neither be thou dismayed. Josh. i. 9. Dismissal (dis-mis'al), n. 1. Dismission; loyal love.' Spenser. -SYN. Faithless, false, 2. To subdue; to defeat. discharge. treacherous, perfidious, dishonest, inconWhen the bold Centaures made that bloody fray He wept, he prayed stant. For his dismissal. Wordsworth. Disloyally (dis-loi'al-li), adv. In a disloyal Spenser, 2. Liberation; manumission. manner; with violation of faith or duty to a 3. To disquiet. All those wronged and wretched creatures, sovereign; faithlessly; perfidiously. He showed himself to be dismay'd, By his hand were freed again. He recorded their dismissal, More for the love which he had left behind. Disloyalty (dis-loi'al-ti), n. 1. Want of Spenser. And the monk replied 'Amen!' Longfellow. fidelity to a sovereign; violation of allegiance Syn. To terrify, fright, affright, frighten, Dismission (dis-mi'shon), n. or duty to a prince or sovereign authority. (L, dimissio. ) 2. Want of fidelity in love. Disloyalty to appal, daunt, dishearten, dispirit, discour 1. The act of sending away; leave to depart; the king's bed.' Spectator. age, deject, depress. as, the dismission of the grand jury.--2. ReDismail, Dismaylt (dis-māl), v.t. [Prefix Dismay (dis-má'), v.i. To be daunted; to moval from office or employment; discharge, stand aghast with fear; to be confounded dis, priv., and mail.) To divest of a coat of either with honour or disgrace.-3. An act with terror. mail; to cleave off a coat of mail. requiring departure; an order to leave any Dismay not, princes, at this accident, Their mightie strokes their haberjeons dismayld, post or place. Nor grieve that Rouen is so recovered. Shak. And naked made each others manly spalles. You must not stay here longer, your dismission Is come from Caesar. Shak. Spenser. Dismal (diz'mal), a. (Etym. doubtful. Ac- age; a sinking of the spirits; depression; 4. In law, removal of a suit in equity; rejeccording to one derivation, from L. dies dejection; a yielding to fear; that loss of tion of something as unworthy of notice or malus, an evil day; according to another, firmness which is effected by fear or terror; of being granted. from dimmel, diminutive of dim. Wedge fear impressed; terror felt. Dismissivet (dis- mis' iv), a. Giving diswood connects it with the root of dizzy, and And each mission. The dismissive writing.' Milton. In other's countenance read his own dismay. refers to the Swiss dusem, dark, thick, misty, Milton. Dismortgage (dis-mor'gāj), v.t. (Prefix dis, downhearted ; Bavarian dusmig, dull, still, 2. † Ruin; defeat; destruction. priv., and mortgage.] To redeem from cloudy. Ed. Müller is inclined to connect Like as a ship, whom cruell tempest drives mortgage. it with dismay(which see). ] 1. Dark; gloomy; Upon a rocke with horrible dismay. Spenser. He dismortgaged the crown demesnes, and left as, a dismal shade.- 2. Cheerless; depress behind him a great mass of gold. Howell. Syn. Dejection, discouragement, depression, Dismount (dis-mount'), v. i. (Prefix dis, priv., ing; gloomy, fear, fright, terror. This festival, on which honest George spent a great Dismayd (dis-mād), a. and mount; Fr. démonter.] 1. To alight (Prefix dis =mis, deal of money, was the very dismallest of all the from a horse; to descend or get off, as a and made.) Ugly; ill-shaped. entertainments which Amelia had in her honeymoon. rider from a beast; as, the officer ordered Thackeray: Whose hideous shapes were like to feendes of hell, 3. Sorrowful; dire; horrid; melancholy; his troops to dismount. -2. To descend from Some like to houndes, some like to apes, dismayd. calamitous; unfortunate; as, a dismal acci Spenser. an elevation; to come or go down. dent; dismal effects. Dismayedness (dis-mād'nes), n. A state Now the bright sun gynneth to dismount. Spenser. Full well the busy whisper, circling round, of being dismayed; dejection of courage; Dismount (dis-mount'), v.t. 1. To throw or Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd. dispiritedness. remove from a horse; to unhorse; as, the Goldsmith. The valiantest feels inward dismayedness, and yet soldier dismounted his adversary.--2. To 4. Frightful; horrible; as, a dismal scream. the fearfullest is ashamed fully to show it. throw or bring down from any elevation, My fell of hair Sir P. Sidney. place, or post of authority, and the like. Would at a dismal treatise rouse, and stir, Dismayfult (dis-mā'fyl), a. Full of dismay; Samuel ungratefully and injuriously As life were in't. Shak. dismounted from his authority.' Barrow. Sex. Dreary, gloomy, dark, doleful, horrid, Disme (dēm), n. [O. Fr. See DIME.) 1. A [Rare or obsolete.) 3. To throw or remove, dire, direful, frightful, horrible, lamentable, tenth part; a tithe.-2. The number ten. as cannon or other artillery from their cardolorous, calamitous, sorrowful, sad, melan Every tithe soul, 'mongst many thousand dismes, riages; to break the carriages or wheels of, choly, unfortunate, unhappy. Hath been as dear as Helen. Shak. as guns; to shatter, as the parapet of an enDismally (diz'mal-li), adv. Gloomily; hor Dismember (dis-mem'ber), v.t. (Prefix dis, trenchment or of a wall by cannon-balls, so ribly; sorrowfully; uncomfortably; cheer priv., and member.] 1. To divide limb from that it cannot be defended.-4.1 To draw lessly; depressingly. simb; to separate the members of; to tear from a scabbard. Dismount thy tuck Dismalness (diz'mal-nes), n. The state of or cut in pieces; to dilacerate; to mutilate. being dismal; gloominess; horror. (i.e. rapier). Shak.- Dismounting batteries Fowls obscene dismembered his remains. Pope. (milit.), batteries intended to throw down Dismant (dis-man'), v. t. [Prefix dis, priv., the parapets of fortifications and disable 2. To strip of its members or constituent and man.) To unman. Feltham. the enemy's cannons. parts; to sever and distribute the parts of; Dismantle (dis-man't?), v.t. pret. & pp. dismantled; ppr. dismantling. [Prefix dis, to separate from the main body; to divide; Disnaturalize (dis-na'tūr-al-iz), v.t. [Pre fix dis, priv., and naturalize.] To make as, to dismember a kingdom. priv., and mantle; Fr. démanteler.] 1. To deprive of dress; to strip; to divest. * Dis- The only question was, by whose hands the blow alien; to deprive of the privileges of birth. Disnatured (dis-nā'türd), a. Deprived or should be struck which would dismember that mighty mantling him of his honour.' South. -2. To Buckle empire (Spain). destitute of natural feelings; unnatural. loose; to throw open or off; to undo. The châtenie of Arth, which France had dismem. The king That she, that even but now was your best object, bered. Sir W. Temple, Remembered his departure, and he felt Dearest and best, should in this trice of time, Feelings, which long from his disnatured breast Commit a thing so monstrous, to dismantle SYN. To disjoint, dislocate, dilacerate, muti Ambition had expelled. Southey. So many folds of favour. Shak. late, divide, sever. Disnest (dis-nest'), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv., and 3. More generally, to deprive or strip of Dismembered (dis-mem'bérd), p. and a. nest.] To dislodge, as from a nest. Dryden. 1. Divided member from member; torn or apparatus, furniture, equipments, fortifications, and the like; to unrig; as, to dis- cut in pieces; divided by the separation of Disobedience (dis-o-bē'di-ens), n. (Prefix dis, neg., and obedience.] 1. Neglect or remantle a ship; to dismantle a fortress; to a part from the main body.-2. In her. a fusal to obey; violation of a command or dismantle a town. - 4. To break down; to term applied to birds that have neither feet prohibition; the omission of that which is make useless; to destroy. nor' legs, and also to lions and other animals commanded to be done, or the doing of that His nose dismantled in his mouth is found. which is forbid; breach of duty prescribed Dryden. Dismemberment (dis-mem'ber-ment), 2. by authority. Dismarryt (dis-ma'ri), v.t. To remove the The act of dismembering, or state of being Thou, Posthumus, thou that didst set up dismenbered; the act of tearing or cutting bonds of marriage from; to divorce. My disobedience 'gainst the king my father. 'Shak. Dismarshal (dis-mär'shal), v.t. (Prefix dis, in pieces; mutilation; the act of severing a By one man's disobedience many were made sinners. priv., and marshal.) To derange; to dis- part from the main body; division; separa Rom. v. 19. order. (Rare.) tion. 2. Non-compliance, or the want of compliDismask (dis-mask), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv., The Castilians would doubtless have resented the ance, as with a natural law or some exterior and mask.) To strip off a mask; to uncover; dismemberment of the unwieldy body of which they influence. This disobedience of the moon.' were the head. Macaulay. to remove that which conceals; to unmask. Blackmore. Shak. Dismettled (dis-met'tld), a... [Prefix dis, Disobediency (dis-ő-bë’di-en-si), n. DisDismast (dis-mast'), v. t. (Prefix dis, priv., priv., and mettled.) Destitute of fire or obedience. Taylor. and mast.) To deprive of a mast or masts; spirit. Llewellen. (Rare or obsolete.) Disobedient (dis-7-bē'di-ent), a. 1. Neglectto break and carry away the masts from; as, Dismiss (dis-mis'), v.t. [L. dimitto (for dis ing or refusing to obey; omitting to do what a storm disinasted the ship. mitto), dimissum-di for dis, priv., and is commanded, or doing what is prohibited; Dismastment (dis-mast'ment), n. The act mitto, to send.) 1. To send away; to give refractory; not observant of duty or rules of dismasting; the state of being dismasted. leave of departure; to permit to depart; prescribed by authority; as, children dis[Kare.) implying authority in a person to retain or obedient to parents; citizens disobedient to Dismawt (dis-ma'), o.t. To disgorge from keep. the laws. the maw He (the town-clerk) dismissed the asseinbly. I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision. Now, Mistress Rodriquez, you may unrip yourself Acts xix. 41. Acts xxvi. 19. DISOBEDIENTLY 58 DISPARAGEMENT 2. Not yielding to exciting force or power; I will not keep this form upon my head, to interrupt regular order or system; one Shak. uninfluenced, or not to be influenced. When there is such disorder in my wit. who introduces disorder and confusion. Medicines used unnecessarily contribute to shorten SYN. Irregularity, disarrangement, confu- Disorient (dis-o'ri-ent), v. t. (Prefix dis, priv., life, by sooner rendering peculiar parts of the system sion, tumult, bustle, disturbance, illness, and orient. ] To throw out of reckoning; to disobedient to stimuli. Dr. E. Darwin. indisposition, sickness, malady, distemper, confuse as to longitude. (Rare.) Disobediently (dis-7-bē'di-ent-li), adv. In a disease. I doubt then the learned professor was a little dis: disobedient manner. Disorder (dis-or'der), v.t. 1. To break the oriented when he called the pronaises in Ezekiel and Disobeisant,ta. (Fr. ] Disobedient. Chaucer. order of; to derange; to disturb the regular in the Revelations the same. Bp. Iarburton. Disobey (dis-o-bā'), v.t. [Prefix dis, neg., disposition or arrangement of; to put out Disorientatedt (dis-o'ri-ent-at-ed). p. and a. and obey ] To neglect or refuse to obey; to of method; to throw into confusion; to con- Turned from the east or the right direction; omit or refuse obedience to; to transgress fuse: applicable to everything susceptible thrown out of one's reckoning. or violate an order or injunction; to refuse of order. Disown (clis-on'), r.t. (Prefix dis, neg., and submission to; as, refractory children dis- The incursions of the Goths and other barbarous own.) 1. To refuse to acknowledge as belongobey their parents, men disobey their Maker nations d'isordered the affairs of the Roman Empire. ing to one's self; to deny; not to own; to and the laws. drbuthnot. repudiate; as, a parent can hardly disown his I needs must disobey him for his good; tions of, as the animal economy; to produce child; an author will sometimes disown his How should I dare obey niin to his harm? Tennyson. writings.-2. To deny; not to allow; to refuse to admit. Disobey (dis-ő-bā'), v.i. To refuse obedience; regular operations of, as reason or judg. to disregard orders. ment; to derange; as, the man's reason is Then they, who brother's better claim disown, Expel their parents, and usurp the throne. He durst not know how to disobey. Sir P. Sidney. disordered. 'A man whose judgment was Dryden. so much disordered by party spirit.' Mac SYN. To disavow, disclaim, deny, renounce, Disobeyer (dis-o-bā'ér), n. One who dis aulay.-3. To discompose or disturb, as the disallow obeys. mind; to ruffle. * Disordered into a wanton Disownment (dis-on'ment), n. Act of disDisobligation (dis-ob'li-gā"shon), n. [From frame.' Barrow.-4.1 To depose from holy owning; repudiation. J.J. Gurney. (Rare ) disoblige. ) The ac of disobliging; an orders. Disoxidate (dis-oks'id-át), r.t. pret and pp. offence; cause of disgust. Let him be stripped and disordered, I would fain dixuxidated; ppr. disoxidating. (Prefix dis, It would be such a disobligation to the prince that see him walk in querpo, that the world may behold priv., and oridate.) To reduce from oxidahe would never forget it. Clarendon. Dryden. tion; to reduce from the state of an oxide Disobligation (dis-ob'li-gā"shon), n. [Pre SYN. To disarrange, derange, confuse, dis- by disengaging oxygen from a substance; to fix dis, priv., and obligation] Freedom from compose, disturb, ruftle. deoxidate; as, to disoridate iron or copper obligation 'The conscience is restored to The Disordered (dis-or'derd), a. 1. Disorderly; Disoxidation (dis-oks'id-a"shon), n. liberty and disobligation.' Jer. Taylor. irregular; vicious; loose; unrestrained in act or process of freeing from oxygen and behaviour. Men so disordered, so deDisobligatory (dis-ob'li-ga-to-ri), a. Releas reducing from the state of an oxide; deoxibauched and bold.' Shak. --- 2. Deranged; dation, ing obligation. out of order; as, a disordered stomach. Disoblige (llis-o-blij), v.t. (Prefix dis, neg., Disoxygenate (dis-oks'i-jen-át), v. t. (Preand oblige.) To do an act which contra Disorderedness (dis-or'derd-nes), 12. A state fix dis, priv., and oxygenate.) To deprive of venes the will or desires of another; to of disorder or irregularity; confusion. oxygen offend by an act of unkindness or incivility; Disorderliness (dis-or'der-li-nes), n. State Disoxygenation (dis-oks'i-jen-a"shon), n. to injure in a slight degree; to be unaccomof being disorderly. The act or process of separating oxygen modating to. Disorderly (dis-or'der-li), a. 1. Being with- from any substance containing it; deoxida out proper order or disposition; confused; tion. My plan has given offence to some gentlemen, whom it would not be very safe to disoblige. Addison. immethodical; irregular; as, the books and Dispacet (dis-pās), v.i. (L. dis, asunder, to papers are in a disorderly state. and fro, and spatior, to walk about.) To Disobliget (dis-o-blij'), v.t. (Prefix dis, priv., His forces seemed no army, but a crowd, range about. and oblige.] To release from obligation. Heartless, unarined, disorderly, and loud. Cowley. When he spide the joyous butterflie, The unkindness of a brother can wholly rescind 2. Tumultuous; irregular; turbulent; rebel- In this faire plot dispacing to and fro. Spenser that relation, or disoblige us from the duties annexed lious. thereto Barrow. If we subdue our unruly and disorderly passions Dispair (dis-pār'), v.t. [Prefix dis, neg., and Disobligement (dis-7-blij'ment), n. The act within ourselves, we should live more easily and pair.) To separate: said of a pair or couple. of disobliging. Milton. quietly with others. Stilling Forgive me, lady, I have ... dispair'd two doves. Beau. & FI. obliges. disposed to violate law and good order; vioDisobliging (dis-o-blij'ing), a. Not obliging; lating the restraints of morality; of bad Dispandt (dis-pand), v t. (L. dispando, to stretch out-dis, asunder, and pando, to not disposed to gratify the wishes of an- repute; as, disorderly people; drunk and other; not disposed to please; unkind; offen- disorderly.--4. Not regulated by moral re spread.) To display. Bailey. sive; unpleasing; unaccommodating; as, a straints; not conducted according to the Dispansiont (dis.pan'shon), n. The act of disobliging coachman. precepts of morality; disreputable; as, a spreading or displaying. Bailey. [Prefix Disobligingly (dis-o-blij'ing-li), adv. In a disorderly house. - 5. Inclined to break loose Disparadised (dis. pa’ra-dist), a. disobliging manner; offensively. from restraint; unruly; as, disorderly cattle. dis, priv., and paradise.] Removed from Disobligingness (dis-o-blij'ing-nes), n. Of. 6. Not acting in an orderly or regular way, Disparage (dis-pa’rāj), v.t. pret. & pp. dis paradise. (Rare.) fensiveness; disposition to displease, or as the functions of the body.-SYN. Irrewant of readiness to please. gular, immethodical, confused, tumultuous, paraged; ppr. disparaging. 10. Fr. desparaDisoccidentt (dis-ok'si-dent), v.t. ger, to offer to a woman, or impose on her [Prefix inordinate, intemperate, unruly, lawless, as husband, a man unfit or unworthy; to dis, priv., and occident.] To throw out of vicious, loose. impose unworthy conditions-des for dis, reckoning; to confuse as to longitude. “Dis- | Disorderly (dis-or'der-li), adv. 1. Without occidented our geographer.' Marvell. See order, rule, or method; irregularly; con priv., and parage, equality in blood, deDISORIENT fusedly; in a disorderly manner. scent, lineage, from L par, equal.] 1. To marry one to another of inferior condition Disoccupation (dis-ok'kū-pā"shon), n. (Pre- Savages fighting disorderly with stones. Raleigh. or rank; to dishonour by an unequal match fix dis, neg., and occupation.) Want of occu 2. In a manner violating law and good order; or marriage, against the rules of decency; pation. [Rare.) in a manner contrary to rules or established to match unequally; to injure or dishonour Disomatous (di-so'ma-tus), a. (Gr. di for dis, institutions. by union with something of inferior exceltwice, and sima, body.] Two-bodied; specifically, applied to any monster consisting Withdraw yourselves from every brother that walk. lence. "To disparage my daughter.' Chau. eth disorderly. 2 Thes. iii. 6. cer.-2. To injure or dishonour by a comof two bodies united, as the Siamese twins. parison with something of less value or Disopinion (llis-o-pin'i-on), n. Difference of Disordinatet (dis-or'din-āt), a. (Prefix dis, opinion; want of belief. (Rare.] priv., and ordinate.) Disorderly; living irre excellence.-3. To treat with contempt; to gularly. undervalue; to lower in rank or estimation; Assenting and dissenting thoughts, belief and dis to vilify; to reproach. opinion. Bp. Reynolds. These not disordinate, yet causeless suffer The punishment of dissolute days. Milton. Thou durst not thus disparage glorious arms. Disorbed (dis-orbd'), a. (Prefix dis, priv.: Disordinatelyt (dis-or'din-at-li), adv. In Milton. and orb.) Thrown out of the proper orbit. 4. To bring reproach on; to lower the esti"A star disorbed.' Shak. ordinately; irregularly; viciously. mation or worth of; to debase; to dishonour. Disordeined, t pp. [Fr.) Disorderly. Chaucer. Disordinationt (dis-ordin-a"shon), n. Dis- With fear disparaged.' Spenser. Disorder (dis-or'dėr). n. (Prefix dis, neg., arrangement. His religion sat .. and order; Fr. désordre.) gracefully upon him, without 1. Want of order Disordinaunce, + n. (Fr.) Irregularity. any of those forbidding appearances which sometimes Chaucer. or regular disposition; irregularity; im disparage the actions of inen sincerely pious. By Atterbury methodical distribution; confusion: a word Disorganization (dis-or’gan-iz-ā"shon), n. [See DISORGANIZE.) 1. The act of disor- Syn. To depreciate, undervalue, vilify, reof general application; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in ganizing; the act of destroying organic proach, detract from, derogate from, decry, degrade. disorder.-2. Tumult; disturbance of the structure or connected system; the act of peace of society; as, the city is sometimes destroying order. --2. The state of being Disparaget (dis-pa-rāj'), n. (Fr.) A dispatroubled with the disorders of its citizens. disorganized; as, the disorganization of gov- ragement; an unequal marriage. To match so high, her friends with counsell sage, You have displaced the mirth, broke the good meeting Disorganize (dis-or'gan-iz), v.t. (Prefix dis, Dissuaded her from such a disparage. Spauser. With most adınir'd disorder, Shak. neg., and organize.) To break or destroy Disparagement (dis-pa'rāj-ment), n. 17 The 3. Neglect of rule; irregularity. organic structure or connected system; to matching of a man or woman to one of inFrom vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, dissolve regular system or union of parts; to ferior rank or condition, and against the And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art. Pope. throw into confusion or disorder; as, to dis. rules of decency. 4. Breach of laws; violation of standing organize a government or society; to disor And thought that match a foul disparagement. rules or institutions. - 5. Irregularity, dis- ganize an army. Spenser turbance, or interruption of the functions Every account of the settlement of Plymouth men. 2. Injury by union or comparison with someof the animal economy or of the mind; tions the conduct of Lyford, who attempted to dis- thing of inferior excellence.-3. The act of disease; distemper; sickness; derangement. organize the church. Eliot's Biog. Dict. undervaluing or lowering the estimation or 6. Discomposure of the mind; turbulence of Disorganizer (dis-or'gan-iz-ér), n. One who character of a person or thing; the act of passions. disorganizes; one who destroys or attempts depreciating; detraction. DISPARAGER 59 DISPENSE He chilld the popular praises of the king, Dispassionately (dis-pa'shon-at-li), adv. A dispensation was obtained to enable Dr. Barrow . to marry. Ward. Tennyson, 4. Diminution of value or excellence; re Dispassioned (dis-pa'shond), a. Free from 4. That which is dispensed or bestowed; passion. proach; disgrace; indignity; dishonour: fol specifically, in theol, a system of principles lowed by to Dispatch (dis-pach'). For this word, as well and rights enjoined; as, the Mosaic dispenIt ought to be no disparagement to a star that it is as its derivatives and compounds, see DES sation; the Gospel dispensation; including, not the sun. South. PATCH the former, the Levitical law and rites; the The prerogatives of the sovereign were extensive. Dispathy (dis'pa-thi), n. (Prefix dis, priv., latter, the scheme of redemption by Christ. It was no disprragement to the bravest and and pathy, seen in apathy, from Gr. pathos, Dispensative (dis-pens'a-tiv), a. Granting noblest knights to kneel at his feet. Macaulay. suffering See PATHOS.] 1. Want of passion. dispensation. Sex. Derogation, detraction, reproach, dis- 2. Absence of sympathy; an opposite taste Dispensatively (dis-pens'a-tiv-li), adv. By honour, debasement, degradation, disgrace. or liking; uncongeniality. (In both uses dispensation. Disparager (dis-pa'råj-ėr), n. One who dis- rare or obsolete.) I can now hold my place canonically, which I held parages or dishonours; one who vilifies or Who (Sir Thomas More) recognizes in me some before but dispensatively. Sir H. Wotton. disgraces. dispathies, but more points of agreement. Southey. Dispensator (dis'pens-āt-ér), n. (L.) A Disparagingly (dis-pa'räj-ing-li), adv. In Dispauper (dis-pa'pér), v. t. (Prefix dis, priv., dispenser (which see). a manner to disparage or dishonour. Disparate (dis'pa-răt), a. (L. disparatus, and pauper.) To deprive of the claim of a Dispensatorily (dis-pens'a-to-ri-li), adv. By pauper to public support, or of the capacity dispensation; dispensatively. Goodwin. pp of disparo, to part, separate-dis, asun Having der, and paro, to make ready, to prepare.) of suing in forma pauperis; to reduce back Dispensatory (dis-pens'á-to-ri), a. power to grant dispensations. 1. Unequal; unlike; dissimilar. If a party has a current income, though no perma. Dispensatory (dis-pens'ā-to-ri), n. A book Connecting disperate thoughts, purely by means of resemblance in the words expressing them. nent property, he inust be dispaupered. Phillimore. containing the method of preparing the various kinds of medicines used in pharmacy, Coleridge. Dispauperize (dis-pa'pér-iz), v.t. (Prefix 2. In logic, pertaining to two co-ordinate or containing directions for the composition dis, priv., and pauperize.) To release or of medicines, with the proportions of the species or divisions. free from the state of pauperism; to free ingredients, and the methods of preparing Disparate (dis'pa-rāt), n. One of two or from paupers. them; a pharmacopeia. more things so unequal or unlike that they As well as by that of many highly pauperized dis. Dispense (dis-pens'), v.t. pret. & pp. discannot be compared with each other. tricts in more recent times, which have been dispat. Disparition (dis-pa-ri'shon), n. (Contr. for perized by adopting strict rules of poor-law adminis pensed; ppr. dispensing. (L. dixpenso, to disapparition-prefix dis, priv., and appari weigh out or pay; hence, to manage housetration. 3. S. Mill. hold affairs, to act as steward or paymaster tion. See APPARITION.) Disappearance. Dispeace (dis-pēs), n. [Prefix dis, priv., and In the dispirition of that other light, there is a peace.) Want of peace or quiet; dissension. --dis, distrib., and penso: freq. of pendo, to weigh.] 1. To deal or divide out in parts perpetually fixed star, shining in the writings of the Dispeed (dis-pēd'), v. t. To despatch; to disprophets. Bp. Hall, or portions; to distribute; as, to dispense Disparity (dis-pa'ri-ti), n. (Fr. disparité, charity, medicines, &c.; God dispenses his To that end he dispeeded an enibassadour to Poland. favours according to his good pleasure. from L. dispar, unequal--dis, and par, equal.] Knolles. 1. Inequality; difference in degree, in age, Thus having said, He is delighted to dispense a share of it to all the company. Deliberately, in self-possession still, rank, condition, or excellence: followed by Sir II'. Scott. in or oj; as, disparity in or of years, age, Himself from that most painful interview 2. To administer; to apply, as laws to parDispeeding, he withdrew. Southey. circumstances, condition. --2. Dissimilitude; ticular cases; to distribute justice. unlikeness: followed by between, betwixt. Dispel (dis-pel'), v.t. pret. & pp. dispelled; While you dispense the laws and guide the state. Dryden. Just such disparity ppr. dispelling. (L. dispello, to drive asunAs is 'twirt air and angels' purity, der, to disperse-dis, asunder, and pello, to 3. To atone for; to compensate; to grant par'Twixt woman's love and man's will ever be. drive.) To scatter by driving or force; to don for. Donne. disperse; to dissipate; to drive away; as, to His sin was dispensed Sex. Inequality, unlikeness, dissimilitude, With gold. Gower. dispel vapours; to dispel darkness or gloom; disproportion to dispel fears; to dispel cares or sorrows; 4. To grant dispensation from; to relieve; to Dispark (dis-park'), v.t. (Prefix dis, priv., to dispel doubts. excuse; to set free from an obligation; to and park.] 1. To throw open, as a park; to I loved, and love dispelled the fear exempt. lay open; to divest of the character of a That I should die an early death. Tennyson. It was resolved that all members of the House, who park, as land You have fed upon my signories, SYN. To scatter, dissipate, disperse, drive held commissions, should be dispensed from parlia. mentary attendance. Macaulay. Dispark'd my parks, and feli'd my forest woods, away, banish, remove. 1. To bargain 2. To set at large; to release from inclosure to be dispersed; to disappear; as, the clouds for, grant, or receive a dispensation; to or confinement. “He disparks his seraglio.' dispel. compound: used most frequently with the Sir T. Herbert. Dispeller (dis-pelėr), n. He who or that person who is able to grant the dispensa tion as the subject. Disparklet (dis-parkl), v.t. (Prefix, dis, asun- whi dispels; as, the sun is the dispeller of der, and sparkle, in the sense of to scatter.] darkness. The king, of special grace, dispensid with him of the two first peynes. To scatter abroad; to disperse; to divide. Dispend (dis-pend), v.t. (L. dispendo, to Capgrove. The sect of Libertines began but lately; but as vipers weigh out, to distribute-dis, and pendo, to He hath dispensed with a man to marry his own brother's wife, Bp. Jewel. soon multiply into generations, so is their spawn dis- weigh.) To spend; to lay out; to consume; parkled over all lands. Clarke. Canst thou dispense with heaven for such an oath? to expend. (Rare or obsolete.) Shak. Dispart (dis-part), v.t. (Prefix dis, asunder, Able to dispend yearly twenty pounds and above. From the idea of bargaining for a dispensaand part.) To divide into parts; to separate; Fuller tion, or compounding for the performance to sever; to burst; to rend; to rive or split; Dispender (dis-pend'ér), n. One that dis of something forbidden or the non-performto distract; as, disparted air; disparted tributes. (Rare.) ance of something enjoined, are deducible towers; disparted chaos. Dispensable (dis-pens'a-bl), a. 1. That may senses (a), (b), (c), (d), of to dispense with: (a) When all three kinds of love together meet, be dispensed or administered. 'Laws of the to put up with; to connive at; to allow. 'ConAnd doe dispar! the hart with power extreme. dispensable by the ordinary courts.' niving and dispensing with open and common Spenser State Trials, 1680.– 2. That may be spared or Dispart (dis-pärt'), v.i. To separate; to adultery.' Milton. (b) To excuse; to exempt; dispensed with. Dispensable, at least, if open; to cleave. The silver clouds dis to relieve; to set free, as from an obligation. not superfluous.' Coleridge. parted.' Shelley. Though he may be dispensed with in not speaking Not a tone of colour, not a note of form, is mis. with his tongue, yet his heart must crie. Hieron. Dispart (dis'part), n. In gun. (a) the differ placed or dispensable. Swinburne. ence between the semi-diameter of the base I could not dispense with myself from making a voyage to Caprea. Addison ring at the breech of a gun, and that of the Dispensableness (dis-pens'a-bl-nes), n. The ring at the swell of the muzzle. (6) A discapability of being dispensed with. (c) To go back from; to break, as one's part-sight Dispensary (dis-pens'a-ri), n. word. 1. A shop in Dispart (dis-pårt'), v.t. In gun. (a) to set a which medicines are compounded; a labor I never knew her dispense with her word but once. Richardson. mark on the muzzle-ring of a piece of ord. atory.---2. A house, place, or store in which nance, so that a sight-line from the top of medicines are dispensed to the poor, and (d) To permit the neglect or omission of, as a the base-ring to the mark on or near the medical advice given gratis. form, a ceremony, an oath, and the like; to muzzle may be parallel to the axis of the Dispensation (dis-pens-a'shon), n. [L. dis suspend the operation of, as a law; to give bore or hollow cylinder. () To make allow pensatio, economical management, superin- up, release or do without, as services, attendance for the dispart in, when taking aim. tendence, from dispenso. See DISPENSE.) ance, article of dress, &c. 1. + Distribution; the act of dealing out to Every gunner, before he shoots, must truly dispart his piece. (The Pope) hath dispensed with the oath and duty Lucar. different persons or places. 'A dispensation of subjects to their prince against the fifth command. of water indifferently to all parts of ment. Bp. Andrewes. Dispart-sight (dis'pärt-sit), n. In gun. a : the earth. Woodward. Specifically-2. The Many Catholics did then, and do now, think better piece of metal cast on the muzzle of a piece dealing of God with his creatures; the dis- to dispense with the law of continency, than, by reof ordnance to ma the line of sight par tribution of good and evil, natural and moral, taining it, to open a gate to unclean single life, leav. allel to the axis of the bore. in the divine government. ing inarriage free for all. Sir N. Brent. Dispassion (dis-pa'shon), n. [Prefix dis, When art and counterfeit discourse is designed for priv., and passion. ) Freedom from passion; Neither are God's methods or intentions different the benefit of a person, when you can't serve him in his dispensations to each private man. Rogers. an undisturbed state of the mind; apathy. any other way, when you are morally assured he will dispense with his right to clear information, and Dispassionate (dis-pa’shon-át), a. 1. Free 3. The granting of a license, or the license thank you for the expedient; in this case, I say, I'm from passion; calm; composed; impartial; itself, to do what is forbidden by laws or strongly of opinion that swerving from truth is not unmoved by feelings: applied to persons; canons, or to omit something which is com- unjustifiable. Jeremy Collier. as, dispassionate men or judges. Quiet, manded; that is, the dispensing with a law There are other uses of to dispense with dispassionate, and cold.' Tennyson. -2. Not or canon, or the exemption of a particular whose connection with the foregoing does dictated by passion; not proceeding from person from the obligation to comply with not clearly appear: as, (e) to do or perform; temper or bias; impartial: applied to things; its injunctions. The pope has power to dis- as, to dispense with miracles. Waller. () To as, dispassionate proceedings. -Syn. Calm, pense with the canons of the Church, but dispose of; to consume. cool, composed, serene, temperate, mode- has no right to grant dispensations to the Several of my friends were, this morning, got rate, impartial. injury of a third person. together over a dish of tea, in very good health, land ... |