DISPENSE 60 DISPLEASE though we had celebrated yesterday with more ing from their different refrangibilities. 'Displant (dis-plant), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv., glasses than we could have dispensed with, had we The point of dispersion is the point where and plant.) i. To pluck up or to remove not been beholden to Brooke and Hellier. Steele. refracted rays begin to diverge. When what is planted.-2. To drive away or re2. To make amends; to compensate. a ray of the sun's light is made to pass move from the usual place of residence; as, One loving hour through prisms of different substances it is to displant the people of a country. For many years of sorrow can dispense, Spenser. found that spectra are formed of different Unless philosophy can make a Juliet, Dispenset (dis-pens'), n. 1. Dispensation. lengths, which is occasioned by the prisms Displant a town, reverse a prince's doom. Shak. Indulgences, dispenses, pardons, bulls. Milton. refracting the coloured rays at different 3. To strip of what is planted or settled; as, 2. Expense; profusion. angles. Thus, the spectrum formed by a to displant a country of inhabitants. It was a vault built for great dispense. Spenser. prism of oil of cassia is found to be two or Displantation (dis-plant-a'shon), n. The Dispenser (dis-pens'ér), n. One who or that three times longer than one formed by a act of displanting; removal; displacement. which dispenses or distributes; one who or glass prism. The oil of cassia is therefore Displat (dis-plat'), v.t. (Prefix dis, priv., and that which administers; as, a dispenser of said to disperse the rays of light more than plat.) To untwist; to uncurl. favours or of the laws. the glass, or to have a greater dispersive Display (dis-plā'), v.t. [0. Fr. desployer; Fr. The drowsy hours, dispensers of all good, power It is also found that in spectra déployer-des, equal to L. dis, priv., and O'er the mute city stole with folded wings. formed by prisms of different substances ployer, same as plier, from L. plico, to fold. Tennyson. the coloured spaces have not the same Dispensing (dis-pens'ing), a. 1. That may dis Akin deploy, employ.) 1.7 To unfold; to ratio to one another as the length of the open; to spread wide; to expand. pense with; granting dispensation; that may spectra which they compose; and this progrant license to omit what is required by The northern wind his wings did broad display. perty has been called the irrationality of Spenser. law, or to do what the law forbids; as, a dispersion or of the coloured spaces in the 2. To spread before the view; to set in view dispensing power.---2. That dispenses, deals spectrum.-4. In med. and surg. the removing ostentatiously; to show; to exhibit to the out, or distributes; as, a dispensing chemist. of inflammation from a part and restoring eyes or to the mind; to make manifest. Dis. Dispeople (dis-pē'pl), v.t. (Prefix dis, priv., it to its natural state. play'd a splendid silk of foreign loom.' Tenand people.) To depopulate; to empty of Dispersive (dis-pers’iv), a. Tending to nyson. "Proudly displaying the insignia of inhabitants, as by destruction, expulsion, or scatter or dissipate. their order.' Prescott. other means. Dispersonate (dis-per'son-át), v.t. [Prefix His growth now to youth's full flower displaying dis, priv., and personate.) To divest of per- All virtue, grace, and wisdom to achieve Things highest, greatest. Milton. Dispeopler (dis-pē'plėr), n. One who de- Dispirit (dis-pi'rit), v.t. (Prefix dis, priv., 3. To carve; to dissect and open.-4. To populates; a depopulator; that which de- and spirit.] 1. To depress the spirits of; to discover; to descry. prives of inhabitants. “Stern dispeopler of deprive of courage; to discourage; to dis And from his seat took pleasure to display the plain.' Lewis. hearten; to deject; to cast down. “Not The city so adorned with towers. Chapman. Disperance,t n. (Fr.) Despair. Chaucer. dispirited with my afflictions.' Dryden. 5. To open; to unlock. Disperget (di-spérj'), v.t. [L. dispergo, to Our men are dispirited, and not likely to get any Her left (hand holds) a curious bunch of keys, strew or scatter about-dis, distrib., and thing by fighting with them. Ludlow. With which heav'n's gate she locketh and disspargo, to scatter.) To sprinkle. 2. To exhaust the spirits or bodily vigour of. plays. B. Jonson. Dispermous (di-sperm'us), a. (Gr. di for dis, (Rare.) SYN. To exhibit, show, spread out, parade. twice, and sperma, seed. ] In bot. two-seeded; He has dispirited himself by a debauch. Collier. Display (dis-plā'), v.i. 1. To make a show containing two seeds only; as, umbellate Syn. To dishearten, discourage, deject, or display. -2. To lay anything open, as in and stellate plants are dispermous. damp, depress, cast down, intimidate, carving or dissection. Disperplet (dis-per'pl), v.t. [A corruption daunt. He carves, displays, and cuts up to a wonder. of disparkle (which see).] To disperse; to Dispirited (dis-pi'rit-ed), p. and a. 1. Dis Spectator. sprinkle; to scatter. couraged; depressed in spirits; dejected; 3. To talk without restraint; to make a great I bathed, and odorous water was intimidated. — 2. Spiritless; tame; wanting show of words. Disperpled lightly on my head and neck. energy; as, a poor dispirited style. Dis- Display'd so saucily against your highness. Shak. Chapman. Dispersal (dis-pers’al), n. Dispersion. pirited recitations.' Hammond. Display (dis - plă'), n. 1. An opening or Disperse (dis-pers), v. t.'pret. & pp. dispersed; Dispiritedly (dis-pi'rit-ed-li), adv. Deject- unfolding; an exhibition of anything to ppr. dispersing. [L. dispersus, from dispergo Dispiritedness (dis-pi'rit-ed-nes), n. Want edly. the view.–2. Ostentatious show; exhibi. —di for dis, distrib., and spargo, to scatter; tion; parade; as, they make a great display Fr. disperser.] 1. To scatter; to drive asunof courage; depression of spirits. of troops; a great display of magnificence. der; to cause to separate into different Dispiritment (dis-pi'rit-ment), n. The act He died, as erring men should die, parts; as, the Jews are dispersed among all of dispiriting, or state of being dispirited; Byron. Without display, without parade. Displayed (dis-plād'), p. and a. 1. Unfolded; You honestly quit your tools; quit a most muddy. opened; spread; expand- ed; exhibited to view; 2. To diffuse; to spread. with it all. Carlyle. manifested.-2. In her. a The lips of the wise disperse knowledge. Prov. xv. 7. Dispiteous t (dis-pi'tē-us), a. [See DES term used to express the 3. To dissipate; to cause to vanish; as, the PITEOUS. ] Having no pity; cruel; furious. position of any bird of fog is dispersed.-4. | To distribute; to dis When him he spied prey when it is erect, with pense. Spurring so hote with rage dispiteous. Spenser. its wings expanded. Being a king that loved wealth, he could not endure Dispitous, t a. Same as Despitous. Displayer (dis-plā'er), n. to have trade sick, nor any obstruction to continue Dispitously, adv. Same as Despiteously. He who or that which in the gate vein which disperseth that blood. Bacon. Displace (dis-plās'), v.t. pret. & pp. dis displays. 5. To make known; to publish. placed; ppr. displacing. (Prefix dis, priv., Displayed. Disple+ (dis'pl), v.t. To The poet entering on the stage to disperse the and place; Fr. déplacer.] 1. To put out of discipline; to inflict peargument. B. Bonson. nitentiary whippings. – Dissipate, Disperse, Scatter. See DISSI- its place; as, the books in the library are all And bitter Penaunce, with an yron whip, Was wont him once to disple every day. Spenser. PATE. -SYN. To scatter, dissipate, dispel, displaced.-2. To remove from any state, spread, diffuse, distribute, deal out, dissemi- condition, office, or dignity; as, to displace Displeasance + (dis-plez'ans), n. (Prefix dis, nate. an officer of the revenue. priv., and pleasance.) Displeasure; anger; Disperse (dis-pers'), v.i. 1. To be scattered; discontent. Liable not only to have its acts annulled by him, 'Him to displeasance moov'd. to separate; to go or move into different but to be displaced, as regards the individuals com Spenser. Odour noxious and displeas- unpleasant. Glory is like a circle in the water, ant.' Glanville. Displaceable (dis-plās'a-bl), a. Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, That may Displeasantlyt (dis-plez'ant-li), adv. UnTill, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought. Shak. be displaced or removed. Dispersed (dis-perst'), p. anda. 1. Scattered. Displacement (dis-plās'nient), n. pleasantly; offensively. Strype. 1. The Displease (dis-plēz), v.t. pret. & pp. dis act of displacing; the act of removing from 2. Published ; divulged. Their own dithe usual or proper place, or from a state, pleased; ppr. displeasing: [Prefix dis, neg., vulged and dispersed ignominy.' Passenger and please.) 1. Not to please; to dissatisfy; of Benvenuto. -Dispersed harmony,in music, condition, or office. The displacement of the to offend; to make angry, sometimes in a Asiat. Researches. harmony in which the tones for the various Unnecessary displacement of funds.' Ha light degree. It usually expresses less than parts are at a wide interval from each other. milton.—2. The quantity of water displaced anger, vex, irritate, and provoke. Dispersedly (dis-pers'ed-li), adv. In a dis Adversity is so wholesome ... why should we be by a body floating at rest, as a ship. Its persed manner; separately. displeased with it. Barrow. Dispersedness (dis-pers'ed-nes), n. The weight is equal to that of the displacing God was displeased with this thing; therefore he body. -3. In med. chem. the method by state of being dispersed or scattered. smote Israel. 1 Chr. xxi. 7. Disperseness (dis-pers'nes), n. Thinness; which the active principles of organic bodies 2. To disgust; to excite aversion in; to be disagreeable to; as, acrid and rancid sub stances displease the taste; a distorted to the action of a liquid, which dissolves Disperser (dis-pers'ér), n. One who disthe soluble matter. figure displeases the eye.-3.1 To make sad; When it has been perses; as, the disperser of libels. to grieve. Dispersion (dis-per'shon), n. 1. The act of sufficiently charged it is displaced by an Soon as the unwelcome news scattering. ---2. The state of being scattered additional quantity of the same or of another From earth arrived at Heaven-gate, displeased All were who heard. Milton. or separated into remote parts; as, the Jews Displacency! (dis-plā' sen-si), n. [L.L. in their dispersion retain their rites and cere 4. To fail to accomplish or satisfy; to miss of. monies; there was a great dispersion of the displacentia for L. displicentia, from dis I shall displease my ends else. Beau, & FI. human family at the building of Babel. plicco, to displease-dis, priv., and placeo, 3. In optics, the divergency of the rays of to please. ] Incivility; that which dis Syn. To offend, dissatisfy, annoy, disgust, pleases or disobliges. vex, chafe, anger. light, or rather the separation of the dif With displacency, or, to use a more common word, Displease (dis-plēz'), v.i. To disgust; to ferent coloured rays in refraction, aris- with dislike. Beattic. raise aversion. DISPLEASEDLY 61 DISPOSITIVE See Foul sights do rather displease, in that they excite disport, solace; L.L. deporto, to divert one's place in any condition; as, how will you disthe memory of foul things, than in the immediate self; the 0. Fr. desport is from prefix dis, and pose of your son? () To direct what to do objects. Bacon. L porto, to carry (whence export, &c.). Sport or what course to pursue ; as, they know Displeasedly (dis-plēz'ed-li), adv. In a dis is an abbrev, of disport.] Play; sport; pas- not how to dispose of themselves. (9) To use pleased manner; in the manner of one who time; diversion; amusement; merriment. or employ; as, they know not how to disis displeased. 'Love's disport.' Milton. pose of their time. (h) To put away; to get He looks down displeasedly upon the earth, as the Disport (dis-port'), v.i. To play; to wanton; rid of; as, the stream supplies more water region of his sorrow and banishment. Bp. Hall. to move lightly and without restraint; to than can be disposed of. Displeasedness (dis-plēz'ed-nes), n. Dis- move in gaiety; as, lambs disporting on the Disposet (dis-poz'), n. 1. Disposal; power of pleasure; uneasiness. mead. disposing; management. Displeaser (dis-plėz'ér), n. One who dis- Where light disports in ever-mingling dyes. Pope. All that is mine I leave at thy dispose. Shak. pleases. Displeasing (dis-plēz'ing), a. Offensive to Disport (dis-port), v.t. To divert or amuse; 2. Dispensation; act of government; manthe mind or any of the senses; disgusting; Disport (dis-port'), v.t. [L. dis, asunder, and as, he disports himself. agement. disagreeable. But such is the dispose of the sole Disposer of em pires. E port, a harbour.) To remove from a port. Speed Displeasingness (dis- plēz'ing-nes), n. Offensiveness; the quality of giving some (Rare.) 3. Cast of behaviour; demeanour. degree of disgust. Disportment (dis-põrt'ment), n. Act of He hath a person and a smooth dispose Displeasure (dis-ple'zhūr), n. 1. The feeldisporting; play. To be suspected, framed to make women false. Shak, ing of one who is displeased; irritation or Disposable (dis-por'a-bl), a. [See DISPOSE. ) uneasiness of the mind, occasioned by any. Subject to disposal; not previously engaged 4. Disposition; cast of mind; inclination. thing that counteracts desire or command, or employed; free to be used or employed Carries on the stream of his dispose, or which opposes justice and a sense of pro as occasion may require; as, the whole dis- Without observance or respect of any. Shak. priety; as, a man incurs the displeasure of posable force consisted of a regiment of light Disposed (dis-pozd), p. and a. 1. Inclined; another by thwarting his views or schemes; infantry and a troop of cavalry. minded. a servant incurs the displeasure of his mas- The English law has always enjoyed even more He was disposed to pass into Achaia. Acts xviii. 27. ter by neglect or disobedience; we experience than its fair share of the disposable ability of the A man might do this now, if lie were maliciously country. Sir H. Maine. displeasure at any violation of right or de disposed, and had a mind to bring matters to exDisposal (dis-põz'al), n. corum. [See DISPOSE. ] tremnity. Dryden. They even meet to complain, censure, and remons 1. The act of disposing; a setting or arranging; 2. Prone to mirth; merry; jolly. Beau. & trate when a governor gives displeasure. Brougham. as, the disposal of the troops in two lines. FI 2. That which displeases; cause of irritation; 2. Regulation, order, or arrangement of Disposedness (dis-põz'ed-nes), n. Disposi things in the moral government of God; offence. tion; inclination. dispensation. Now shall I be more blaineless than the Philistines, Disposer (dis-poz'er), n. 1. One who dis. though I do them a displeasure. Judg. xv. 3. Tax not divine disposal. Milton. poses; a distributor; a bestower; as, a dis. 3. State of disgrace or disfavour. 3. Power of ordering; arranging or distri poser of gifts.-2. A director; a regulator; He went into Poland, being in displeasure with the buting; government; management; as, every an arranger. pope for overmuch familiarity. Peacham, thing is left to his disposal. Leave events to their Disposer. Beyle. Sex. Dissatisfaction, disapprobation, dis- Are not the blessings both of this world and the I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff. I'otion. taste, dislike, anger, vexation, indignation, next in his disposal. Bp. Atterbury. 3. That which disposes. annoyance, offence. 4. Power or right of bestowing; the act of Displeasure (dis-ple'zhūr), v.t. To dis- parting with; bestowal; alienation; regula- Disposingly (dis-poz'ing-li), adv. In a manplease. Bacon. tion of the condition, fate, or application of ner to dispose, regulate, or govern. MountDisplicence, t Displicency, (dis'pli-sens, anything; as, the disposal of money by will; ague. dis' pli-sen-si), n. [L displicentia. the disposal of an estate by sale; the offices Disposition (lis-po-zi'shon), n. (L. disposiDISPLACENCY.] Dislike; displeasure. In- are at the disposal of the premier; the father tio, regular disposition, arrangement-dis, terjections of displicence and ill humour.' has the disposal of his daughter in mar distrib., and pono, positum, to place.] 1. The W. Montague. riage. act of disposing or state of being disposed. 2. Manner in which things or the parts of a I will not say a grudge against them, for they had I am called off from publick dissertations by a no sin, yet a kind of displicony with them, as mere domestick affair of great importance, which is no complex body are placed or arranged ; creatures. Goodwin. less than the disposal of iny sister Jenny for life. order; method; distribution; arrangement; Displode (dis-plod), r.t. pret. & pp. dis Tatler. as, the disposition of the infantry and plorded; ppr. disploding. [L. displodo, to Syn. Disposition, dispensation, manage- cavalry of an army; the disposition of the dilate, to burst-dis, asunder, and plaudo, Dispose (ilis-poz?), v. t. pret. & pp. disposed; ment, conduct. government, distribution. trees in an orchard; the disposition of the to clap, strike, beat.) To vent, discharge, several parts of an edifice or of figures in or burst with a loud noise; to explode. ppr. disposing. [ Fr. disposer, to dispose, painting: -3. Natural fitness or tendency; (Rare.) arrange - prefix dis, and poser, to place as, the disposition of plants to grow upward. (E. pose). See COMPOSE. ] 1. To set; to Stood rank'd of seraphim another row, ‘A great disposition to putrefaction.' Bacon. In posture to displode their second tire place or distribute; to arrange: used with 4. Temper or natural constitution of the or thunder. Milton. reference to order; as, the ships were dis- mind; as, an amiable or an irritable disposiDisplode (dis-plöd'), v.i. To burst with posed in the form of a crescent; the trees are tion. The villanous inconstancy of man's a loud report; to explode; as, a meteor disposed in the form of a quincunx. — 2. To disposition.' Shak.-5. Inclination; prodisploded with a tremendous sound. (Rare.] regulate; to adjust; to set in right order. pensity; the temper or frame of mind, as Displosion (dis-plo'zhon), n. The act of Job xxxiv. 13. directed to particular objects; as, a disposidisploding; a sudden bursting with a loud The knightly forms of combat to dispose. Dryden. tion to undertake a particular work; a disreport; an explosion. (Rare.) 3. To apply to a particular purpose; to position friendly to any design. The vast displosion dissipates the clouds. Young, give; to place; to bestow. 'You have dis- The contemplation of the structure of other govern. Displosive (ilis-plössiv), a. Tending to disposed much in works of public piety.' Sprat. ments as well as of that under which we live, and the plode or explode; explosive. (Rare. ] 4. To set, place, or turn to a particular end comparison of the defects and disadvantages of our own with those of other systems, can hardly fail to Displume (dis-plūm'), v.t. (Prefix dis, priv., or consequence. produce a happy effect upon the dispositions of any and plume.) To strip or deprive of plumes Endure and conquer; Jove will soon dispose people in tolerably happy circumstances. To future good our past and present woes. Brougham. or feathers; to strip of badges of honour. Dryden. 6. In Scots law, (a) disposal; alienation; Displu med degraded, and metamorphosed, 5. To adapt; to form for any purpose. distribution; a giving away or giving over such unfeathered two-legged things, that we Then inust thou thee dispose another way, to another; as, he has made disposition of no longer know them.' Burke. Hubberd's Tale. his effects; he has satisfied his friends by Dispondee (di-spon'dle), n. (Gr. prefix di 6. To set the mind of in a particular frame; for dis, twice, and spondee.) In pros. a the judicious disposition of his property. to incline. (6) A unilateral deed of alienation, by double spondee, consisting of four long syllables. Suspicions dispose kings to tyranny, husbands to which a right to property, especially herit jealousy, and wise men to irresolution and melan. able, is conveyed.-7. One of the six essenDispone (dis- põn'), v.t. pret. & pp. dis choly. Bacon. tials of architecture. It is the arrangement poned; ppr. disponing. (L. dispono, to 7. To sell; to dispose of; as, he disposed all of the whole design by means of ichnography distribute, to dispose - dis, distrib., and church preferments to the highest bidder. (plan), orthography (section and elevation), pono, to place.] 1. To dispose of. Swift. --Syn. To set, arrange, order, distri- and scenography (perspective view); and And of my movable thou dispone bute, adjust, regulate, adapt, fit, incline, differs from distribution, which signifies the Right as thee seemeth best is for to done. bestow, give. particular arrangements of the internal Chaucer. 2. In Scots law, to make over or convey to Dispose (dis-põz'), v.i. 1. To regulate; to de- parts of a building.- Disposition and settleanother in a legal form. termine; to settle. ment, in Scots law, the name usually given to He has disponed... the whole estate. Sir W. Scott. Man proposes, God disposes. Old proverò. a deed, by which a person provides for the Disponee (dis-pon-e'), n. general disposal of his property, heritable In Scots lavo, 2. To bargain; to make terms. one to whom anything is disponed or made You did suspect and movable, after his death. --SYN. Dis She had disposed with Cæsar. over. Shak, posal, adjustment, regulation, arrangement, distribution, order, method, adaptation, inDisponer (dis-pon'er), n. In Scots law, a -To dispose of, to come to a determination person who legally transfers property from concerning; to make a disposal of; specific clination, tendency, propensity, temper, behimself to another. ally, (a) to part with; to alienate; to sell; stowment, alienation. Dispositional (dis-po-zi'shon-al), a. PerDisponge (di-spunj), v.t. [Prefix dis, dis- as, the man has disposed of his house and taining to disposition. trih., and sponge ] To discharge, as from a removed. (6) To part with to another; to Dispositive (dis-poz'it-iv), a. 1. That imsponge; to distil or drop. (Rare.) put into another's hand or power; to bestow; O sovereign mistress of true melancholy, as, the father has disposed of his daughter to plies disposal; disposing or regulating. His Thy poisonous damp of night disponge upon me. Shak. a man of great worth. (c) To give away or dispositive wisdom and power.' Bate8. 2. Pertaining to inclination or natural disDisport (dis-port'), n. [0. Fr. desport, Fr. transfer by authority. position. «Dispositive holiness.' Jer. Taylor. di port, properly diversion resorted to in A rural judge disposed of beauty's prize. Waller. Dispositive clause, in Scots law, the clause order to divert the thoughts: It. disporto, (d) To direct the course of. Prov.xvi. 33. (e) To of conveyance in any deed, by which proDISPOSITIVELY 62 DISPUTATIVE or perty, whether heritable or movable, is Disprize (dis-priz), v. t. To undervalue; to Disprovable (dis-pröv'a-bl), a. Capable of transferred, either absolutely or in security, depreciate. (Rare.) being disproved or refuted. inter vivos or mortis causa, that is, between Disprofess (dis-pro-fes'), v.i. [Prefix dis, Disproval (dis-prov'al), n. Act of disprovthe living or in contemplation of death. priv., and profes8.) To renounce the pro- ing; disproof. Dispositively + (dis-poz'it-iv-li), adv. 1. In Disprove (dis-pröv'), v.t. pret. & pp. disa dispositive manner; distributively. Sir His arms which he had vowed to disprofesse, proved; ppr. disproring. (Prefix dis, neg., T. Browne.-2. By natural or moral disposi- She gathered up. Spenser. and prove.] 1. To prove to be false or errontion. Disprofit (dis-pro'fit), n. [Prefix dis, neg.. eous; to confute; to refute; as, to disprore One act may make us do dispositively what Moses and profil. ] Loss; detriment; damage. an assertion, a statement, an argument, a is recorded to have done literally, break all the Foxe. (Rare.) proposition. ten commandments at once. Boyle. Disprofitable (dis-pro'fit-a-bl), a. l'npro- That false supposition I advanced in order to dis. Dispositor t(ilis-poz'itér), n. 1. A disposer fitable. Ilall. prove it. Bp. Atterbury. 2. In astrol, the planet which is lord of the Disproof (dis-pröf), n. (Prefix dis, neg., and 2. + To convict of the practice of error. sign where another planet is. proof. ] Confutation; refutation; a proving Hooker.-3. To disallow or disapprove. Dispossess (dis-poz-zes'), v.t. (Prefix dis, to be false or erroneous; as, to offer evidence Some things are good; yet in so mean a degree of priv., and posse88.) To put out of possession, in disproof of a fact, argument, principle, or goodness, that men are only not disproved, nor dis. by any means; to deprive of the actual occuallegation. allowed of God for thein. Hooker. pancy of a thing, particularly of land or Bent as he was Disprover (dis-pröv'ér), n. One that disreal estate; to dislodge; to disseize: usually To make disproof of scorn, and strong in hopes. Tennyson. followed by of, before the thing taken away; proves or confutes. as, to dispossess a king of his crown. Disproperty + (dis-pro'pér-ti), v.t. (Prefix Dispunct+ (dis-pungkt), v.t. [L dispungo, dis, priv., and property.) To deprive of dispunctum See DISPUNGE.) To point or Ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and mark off; to separate. Foxe. •Silenced their dwell therein. Num. xxxii. 54. property; to dispossess. Dispunct+ (dis- pungkt'), a. Wanting in punctilious respect; discourteous; impolite. possess and throw out a vice from that heart, where tong possession Legins to plead prescription. Disproportion (dis-pro-por'shon), 11. (Pre * That were dispunct to the ladies. B. South. Jonson. fix dis, priv., and proportion.] 1. Want of Dispossessed (dis-poz-zest'), a. Having lost proportion of one thing to another, or be. Dispunge (dis-punj), v.t. [L. dispunyo, one's self-possession self-command. tween the parts of a thing; want of sym to examine, to check an account-dis, and (Rare.) metry; as, the disproportion of a man's arms pungo, to pierce, to penetrate. See ExMiss Susan, deeply agitated, and not knowing to his body; the disproportion of the length PUNGE] To expunge; to erase. what to say or do, stood also, dispossessed, looking of an edifice to its height. Thou then that has dispungid my score, from the child to the woman, and from the woman to And dying wast the death of death. Sır H. W'otton. the child. Mrs. Oliphant. Disproportion, some say, is the cause of the keenest Dispossession (dis-poz-ze'shon), n. 1. The misery in the world; for instance, the disproportion Dispunge (di-spunj), v.t. Same as Disponge between the powers, capacities, and aspirations of (which see). act of putting out of possession; the state man and his circumstances-especially as regards his Dispunishable (dis-pun'ish-a-bl), a. [Prefix of being dispossessed. physical wants. Helps dix, neg., and punishable.) Without penal That heart (Mary Magdalene's) was freed from 2. Want of proper quantity, according to restraint; not punishable. Suift. Satan by that powerful dispossession. B7. Hall. rules prescribed; as, the disproportion of Dispurpose (dis-per'pos), v. t. (Prefix dis, 2. In law, same as Ouster (which see). the ingredients in a compound. - 3. Want of priv., and purpose.) To dissuade; to turn Dispossessor (dis-poz-zes'ér), n. One who suitableness or adequacy; disparity; in- from a purpose. dispossesses. equality; unsuitableness; as, the dispropor- Dispurset (dis-pers'), v.t. To disburse. Dispost (dis-post'), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv., tion of strength or means to an object. Shak. and post.) To remove from a post; to dis- Disproportion (dis-pro-põr'shon), v.t. To Dispurveyt (dis-per-vā), r.t. (Prefix dis, place. (Rare.) make unsuitable in form, size, length, or priv., and purrey.) To deprive oi provision; Disposure (dis-pö’zhūr), n. [See DISPOSE. ) quantity; to violate symmetry in; to mis to empty; to strip. 1. Disposal, the power of disposing; manmatch; to join unfitly; to be out of harmony They dispurvey their vestry of such treasure with. agement; direction. "Give up my estate to As they may spare. Heywood. To shape my legs of an unequal size, his disposure.' Massinger.-2. + State; pos Shak. Want Dispurveyancet (dis-per-vā'ans), n. ture; disposition. In a kind of warlike Till disproportioned sin of provisions; lack of iood. disposure.' Wotton.-3. Distribution; allot Jarr'd against nature's chime, and with harsh din Daily siege, through dispurveyance long ment; as, the disposure of employments. Broke the fair music that all creatures made And lacke of reskewes, will to parley drive. Swift. To their great Lord. Spenser, Dispraise (dis-prāz'), n. [Prefix dis, priv., Disproportionable (dis-pro-põr'shon-a-bl), Dispurveyedt (dis - pėr-văd'), p. and a. and praise.] 1. Blame; censure. a. Disproportional; not in proportion; un 1. Emptied or stripped. -2. Unprovided for. The long.neck'd geese of the world that are ever suitable in form, size, or quantity, to some Paxton Letters. hissing dispraise, thing else; disproportionate; inadequate. Disputable (dis-pút'a-bl), a. [See DISPUTE) Because their natures are little. Tennyson. 1. That may be disputed; liable to be called Doubts and fears are the sharpest passions; through 2. Reproach; dishonour. in question, controverted, or contested; these false optics all that you see is like the evening The general has seen Moors with as bad faces; no shadows, disproportionable to the truth, and strange controvertible; of doubtful certainty; as, dis praise to Bertran's. Dryden, ly longer than the true substance. Sir 7. Suckling disputable opinions, statements, proposi. Syn. Blame, censure, dishonour, reproach. Disproportionableness (dis-pro-põr'shon tions, arguments, points, cases, questions, He is Dispraise (dis-prāz'), v. t. pret. & pp. dis- a-bl-nes), n. &c.- 2. Disputatious; contentious. Want of proportion or sympraised; ppr. dispraising. To blame; to metry; unsuitableness to something else. too disputable for my company.' Shak. censure: to mention with disapprobation, Disproportionably (dis-pro-põr'shon-a-bli), Disputableness (dis-pūt'a-Vi-nes), n. State adv. or some degree of censure. With want of proportion or sym- Disputacity (dis-pūt-as'i-ti), n. of being disputable. Proneness I dispraised him before the wicked. Shak. metry; unsuitably to something else. to dispute. (Rare or obsolete.] Dispraiser (dis-prāz'er), n. One who blames Disproportional (dis-pro-por’shon-al), a. or dispraises. Not having due proportion to something Lest they should dull the wits and hinder the exer. Dispraisingly (dis-prāz'ing-li), adv. By way else; not having proportion or symmetry of cise of reasoning (and) abate the disputacity of the nation. Bp. Ilard of dispraise; with blame or some degree of parts; unsuitable in form or quantity; un One who disreproach. equal; inadequate; as, a disproportional Disputant (dis'pūt-ant), n. Dispread (dis-pred'), v.t. (Prefix dis, distrib., limb constitutes deformity in the body; the putes; one who argues in opposition to studies of youth should not be dispropor another; a controvertist; a reasoner in opand spread. See SPREAD.) To spread in diftional to their capacities. position. 'A singularly eager, acute, and ferent ways; to extend or flow in different pertinacious disputant.' Macaulay. directions; to expand to the full width. Disproportionality, (lis-pro-põr'shon-al"i ti), n. The state of being disproportional. [Rare.) Disputant (dis'pūt-ant), a. Disputing; enDisproportionally (dis-pro-põr'shon-al-li), gaged in controversy. Scantly they durst their feeble eyes dispread Unsuitably with respect to form, There thou wast found Fairfax. Among the gravest Rabbis, disputant On points and questions fitting Moses' chair. Disproportionalness (dis-pro-põr'shon-al Milton. extended; to spread widely. "Heat dis nes), n. Want of proportion; dispropor- Disputation (dis-pūt-a'shon), n. [L. dispu. preading through the sky' Thomson. [Rare.) tionateness. (Rare.) tatio. See DISPUTE.) 1. The act of disputDispreader 1 (dis-pred'ér), n. A publisher; Disproportionate (dis-pro-põr'shon-át), a. ing; a reasoning or argumentation in opposa divulger. Not proportioned; unsymmetrical; unsuit- ition to something, or on opposite sides; conDispreise, v.t. To dispraise; to under able to something else, in bulk, form, or troversy in words; verbal contest respecting value. Chaucer. value; inadequate. the truth of some fact, opinion, proposition, Disprejudicet (dis-pre' jū-dis), v.t. (Prefix None of our members are disproportionate to the or argument. -2. An exercise in colleges, in dis, priv., and prejudice.) To free from pre- rest, either in excess or defect. Ray. which parties reason in opposition to each judice. Mountague. It is plain that men have agreed to a dispropor. other on some question proposed. Dispreparet (dis-pre-pār), v.t. To render tionate and unequal possession of the earth. Disputatious (dis-put-a'shus), a. Inclined unprepared. Hobbes. Locke. Disprince (dis-prins), v.t. To deprive of Disproportionately (dis-pro-põr'shon-at to dispute; apt to cavil or controvert; charthe rank and dignity' of a prince; to divest I li) ado. In a disproportionate degree; un acterized by disputes; as, a disputatious of the character or appearance of a prince. suitably; inadequately. person or temper. Disproportionateness (dis-pro-põr'shon The Christian doctrine of a future life was no re. For I was drenched with ooze, and torn with 1 át-nes), n. Unsuitableness in form, bulk, commendation of the new religion to the wits and philosophers of that disputations period. And, all one rag, disprinced from head to heel. or value; inadequacy. Buckminster Tennyson Dispropriate (dis-pro'pri-āt), v.t. [L. dis, Disputatiously (dis-pūt-a'shus-li), adv. In Disprison (dis-pri’zon), y.t. [Prefix dis, priv., and proprio, propriatum, to appro- a disputations manner. priv., and prison.) To let loose from prison; priate, from proprius, one's own; whence Disputatiousness (dis-pūt-a'shus-nes), n. to set at liberty. also appropriate, propriety, property, &c.] The quality of being disputatious. Disprivilege (dis-pri'vi-lej), v.t. [Prefix dis, To destroy the appropriation of; to withdraw Disputative (dis-pūt'a-tiv), a. Disposed to priv., and privilege.] To deprive of a privi- from an appropriate use; to disappropriate. dispute; inclined to cavil or to reason in lege. (Rare.) opposition; as, a disputative temper. ado. briers... DISPUTE 63 DISRESPECTFUL To strive of contend in opposition to a mohol inquier mergedisturbance Frengjety. T Dispute (dis pūt'), v. i. pret. & pp. disputed; fix dis, priv., and quantity.) To diminish Disregarder (dis-rē-gärd'ér), n. One who ppr. disputing. [L. disputo, to cast or reckon the quantity of; to lessen. neglects. up; to compute; hence, to weigh, examine, Be then desired Disregardful (dis-rê-gärd'ful), a. Neglectinvestigate, discuss - dis, asunder, apart, A little to disquantity your train. Shak. ful; negligent; heedless. and puto, to clean, prune, clear up, adjust, Disquiet (dis-kwi'et), a. (Prefix dis, neg., Disregardfully (dis-rē-gärd'fyl-li), adv. Negligently; heedlessly. Disregulart (dis-re'gū-ler), a. (Prefix dis, to altercate, to wrangle; as, the disciples I pray you, husband, be not so disquiet. Shak. neg., and regular.] Irregular. Disregular of Christ disputed among themselves who passions.' Evelyn. should be the greatest. Disquiet (dis-kwi'et), n. Want of quiet; Disrelish (dis-rel'ish), n. (I'refix dis, priv., Therefore in uneasiness; restlessness; want of tranquillity and relish.) 1. Distaste; dislike of the palate; Jews. . . have a disrelish for tobacco till the taste is reconciled to it by custom.-2. Absence of Dispute (dis-put), c.t. 1. To make the deprive of peace, rest, or tranquillity; to any quality that gives relish ; bad taste; subject of a disputation; to argue; to dis make uneasy or restless; to harass the body; nauseousness. Hatefullest disrelish.' Mil to fret or vex the mind. cuss. ton.-3. Distaste, in a figurative sense; disThe rest I reserve until it be disputed how the That he may... disquiet the inhabitants of Baby- like of the mind; aversion; antipathy. magistrate is to do herein. Milton. Jer. 1. 34 Men love to hear of their power, but have an ex. What was it that ye disputed among yourselves by Why hast thou disquieted me? 1 Sam. xxviii. 15. treme disrelish to be told of their duty. Burke. the way! Mark ix. 33 Why art thou cast down, O my soul, and why art Disrelish (dis-rel'ish), v.t. 1. To dislike the 2. To attempt to disprove by arguments or thou disquieted within me? Ps. xliii. 5. taste of; as, to disrelish a particular kind of statements; to attempt to prove to be false, Disquietalt (dis-kwi'et-al), n. Want of quiet; food. -2. To make nauseous or disgusting; unfounded, or erroneous; to attempt to over- disquietude; unrest. Dr. H. More. to infect with a bad taste. (Rare.) throw by reasoning; to controvert; as, to Disquieter (dis-kwi'et-er), n. One who dis Savoury fruits, of taste to please dispute an assertion, opinion, claim, and the quiēts; he or that which makes uneasy. True appetite, and not disrelish thirst like. Disquietful (dis-kwi'et-ful), a. Producing Of nectarous draughts between. Milton. We might discuss the Northern sin inquietude. 3. To dislike; to feel some disgust at; as, to Which made a selfish war begin; Disquieting (dis-kwi'et-ing), a. Tending to disrelish vulgar jests. All private enjoyinents are lost or disrelished. Pope. 3. To contend or strive for. So dispute the Disquietive (dis-kwi'et-iv), a. Tending to Disremember (dis-rē-mem'bêr), v.t. (L. dis, prize.' Dryden.-4. To call in question the disquiet. priv., and E. remember.) To forget; to propriety of; to oppose by reasoning. Disquietly (dis-kwi'et-li), adv. 1. Without choose to forget. (American and Irish.] Now I am sent, and am not to dispute quiet or rest; in an uneasy state; uneasily; I'll thank you, when we meet again, not to disre. My prince's orders, but to execute. Dryden. anxiously; as, he rested disquietly that night. member the old saying, but let every man skin his own skunks. David Crockett. 5. To strive to maintain; to contest; as, to (Rare. )-2. In a disquieting manner; in a dispute every inch of ground. * To dispute manner so as to destroy quiet or tranquillity. Disrepair (dis-rē-pår), n. [Prefix dis, priv., the possession of the ground with the Span- *All ruinous disorders follow us disquietly and repair.) A state of being not in repair iards. Prescott.-6. To encounter; to to our graves. Shak. [Rare.) or good condition; state of wanting repara tion. fortifications were ancient and in disrepair. disquieting or state of being disquieted. Sir W. Scott. ARGCE.-Syn. To controvert, contest, doubt, Disquietments of conscience. Hopkins. question, argue, debate. Disquietness (dis-kwi'et-nes), n. Uneasi. Disreputability (dis-re 'pūt-a-bil”i-ti), n. Dispute (dis-pút), n. 1. Strife or contest in ness; restlessness; disturbance of peace in The state of being disreputable. words or by arguments; an attempt to prove body or mind. Disreputable (dis-re'püt-a-bl), a. (Prefix and maintain one's own opinions or claims Disquietous t (dis-kwi'et-us), a. Causing dis, neg., and reputable.) Not reputable; by arguments or statements, in opposition uneasiness. “Distasteful and disquietous to not in esteem; not honourable; dishonourto the opinions, arguments, or claims of a number of men.' Milton. able; disgracing reputation; discreditable; another; controversy in words. Disquietude (dis-kwi'et-ūd), N. Want of low; mean; as, disreputable company; it is Could we forbear dispute and practise love, peace or tranquillity; uneasiness; disturb disreputable to associate familiarly with the We should agree as angels do above. Waller. ance; agitation; anxiety. mean, the lewd, and the profane. The House of Commons is a inore aristocratic body 2. Quarrel; contention; strife; contest. By delaying it (to keep God's commandments) we than the House of Lords. The fact is, a great peer Nor is it aught but just; necessarily prepare fears and disquietude, Sharp. would be a greater man now in the House of ComThat he, who in debate of truth hath won, Disquisition (dis-kwi-zi'shon), n. [L. dis- mons than in the House of Lords. Nobody wants a Should win in arms, in both disputes alike victor. Milton. second chamber, except a few disreputable indivi. Disraeli. - Beyond or without dispute, indisputably; quiro, disquisitum, to investigate--dis, dis SYN. Dishonourable, discreditable, low, incontrovertibly. trib., and quæro, quæsitum, to ask.) A formal mean, disgraceful, shameful, scandalous. In prose and verse was owned without dispute In a disreputable manner. fix dis, priv., and reputation.) Loss or want Where is the disputer of this world: 1 Cor. i. 20. sertation; essay; as, a disquisition on go of reputation or good name; disrepute; disDisputison,t n. (Fr.) Dispute. Chaucer. vernment or morals; a disquisition on the esteem; dishonour; disgrace; discredit. influence of mind on matter. I will tell you what was the course in the happy Disqualification (dis-kwo'li-fi-kā"shon), n. days of Queen Elizabeth, whom it is no disreputation His (our Saviour's) lessons did not consist of dis. to follow Bacon. [See DISQUALIFY.] 1. The act of disqualify quisitions. Paley. ing: the state of being disqualified; dis For accurate research or grave disquisition he Disrepute (dis rē-pūt), n. (Prefix dis, priv., ability; hence, the act of depriving of legal was not well qualified. Macaulay. and repute.) Loss or want of reputation; power or capacity; legal disability or inca- Disquisitional, Disquisitionary (dis-kwi. disesteem; discredit; dishonour. At the beginning of the 18th century astrology fell was brought about by corrupt practices; a into general disrepute. Sir W. Scott. conviction for crime is the cause of his dis- Disquisitive (dis-kwi'zit-iv), a. Relating to to disquisition. SYN. Disesteem, discredit, dishonour, disqualification. -2. Want of qualification. [In disquisition; examining; fond of discussion grace. Disreputet (dis-re-pūt), v.t. To bring into prefix dis, neg., and qualification.] Disquisitory, Disquisitorial (dis-kwi'zi- disreputation. More inclined to love them I must still retain the consciousness of those disto-rì, dis-kwi'zi-to'ri-al), a. Pertaining to than to disrepute them.' Jer. Taylor. qualifications which you have been pleased to over disquisition; partaking of the nature of a Disrespect dis-ré-spekt'), n. (Prefix dis, look. Sir 7. Shore. disquisition; critical. Edin. Rev. priv., and respect.] 1. Want of respect or re verence; disesteem. as, conviction of a crime is a disqualification and rank.) 1. To degrade from rank. ---2. To Such fancies do we then affect, for office; sickness is a disqualification for throw out of rank or into confusion. In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness. Wordsworth. 2. An act of incivility, irreverence, or rudeforgive him. Spectator. Disrate (dis-rāt), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv., and ness. The vain disrespects of ignorant perDisqualify (dis-kwoʻli-fl), v.t. pret. & pp. rate.) Naut. to degrade in rank or station; sons.' Bp. Wilkins. disqualified, ppr. disqualifying. (Prefix to disrank. What is more usual to warriors than impatience dis, neg., and qualify.j 1. To make unfit; Disraył (dis-rā'), n. Disarray; disorder. of bearing the least affront or disrespect! Pope. to deprive of natural power, or the qualities Come in manner of a sodaine tempest upon our Disrespect (dis-rē-spekt), v.t. 1. To have or properties necessary for any purpose: armie ... and put it in disray. Holland. no respect or esteem for; to show disrespect used generally with for; as, indisposition dis. Disregard (dis-rê-gård'), n. [Prefix dis, priv., to. We have disrespected and slighted God. Comber. for study. want of attention; slight; as, to pass one Disrespecter (dis-rê-spekt'ér), n. One who Men are not disqualified by their engagements in with disregard. 'Disregard of experience.' disrespects; one who wishes to cast disretrade from being received in high society. Southey. Whewell. spect on. Witty disrespecters of the Scrip2. To deprive of legal capacity, power, or Disregard (dis-rē-gård'), v.t. To omit to ture.' Boyle. right; to disable; as, a conviction of perjury take notice of; to neglect to observe; to Disrespectful (dis-rē-spekt'ful), a. Wantdisqualifies a man for being a witness. slight as unworthy of regard or notice; as, ing in respect; manifesting disesteem or In spite of the law disqualifying hired champions, to disregard the wants of the poor or the want of respect; irreverent; uncivil; as, a it is pretty clear that they were always to be had for admonitions of conscience. disrespectful thought or opinion; disrespectmoney. C. H. Pearson. ful behaviour. Slovenly in dress, and disDisquantity (dis-kwon'ti-ti), v.t. [Pre Blackmore. respectful in manner.' Godwin. 2 DISRESPECTFULLY 64 DISSENSIOUS See amate. Disrespectfully (dis-rē-spekt'ful-li), adv. Dissatisfy (dis-sa'tis-fī), v.t. pret. & pp. dis- which it is not, from similis, like. In a disrespectful manner; irreverently; satisfied; ppr. dissatisfying. (Prefix dis, ASSEMBLE.] 1. To hide under a false appearuncivilly priv., and satisfy.) To render discontented; ance; to conceal; to disguise; to pretend Disrespectfulness (dis-ré-spekt'fyl-nes), n. to displease; to excite uneasiness in by frus- that not to be which really is; as, I cannot Want of respect. trating wishes or expectations. dissemble my real sentiments. Disrespective (dis-rê-spektiv), a. Disre When a new government is established, by what- Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, spectful. 'A disrespective forgetfulness of ever means, the people are commonly dissatisfied. But-why did you kick me downstairs! Hume. thy mercies.' Bp. Hall. 7. P. Kemble. Disreverencet (dis-re've-rens), v.t. [Prefix Dissaventure,t n. [It. dirsarentura, mis. 2. + To pretend that to be which is not; to dis, priv., and reverence.] To deprive of fortune, mishap. See DISADVENTURE.) Mis put on the semblance of; to simulate. reverence; to treat irreverently; to disfortune; mishap; mischance. Your son Lucentio honour. Sir T. More. Never knight ... more luckiess dissaventures did Doth love my daughter, and she loveth hin, Spenser. Disrobe (dis-rõb'), v.t. pret. & pp. disrobed; Or both dissemble deeply their affections. Shak. ppr. disrobing. (Prefix dis, priv., and robe. Disscattert (dis-skat'tėr), v.t. To scatter 3. To appear like; to imitate. To divest of a robe; to divest of garments; abroad; to disperse. The broken remnants to undress; to strip of covering; to divest of disscattered pow'r.' Daniel. The gold dissembled well her yellow hair. Dryden. of any enveloping appendage; to uncover; Disseat (dis-sēt), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv., and 4. f To make unrecognizable; to disguise. as, autumn disrobes the fields of verdure. seat.) To remove from a seat. I'll put it (a gown) on, and I will dissemble myself in't. Shak. This push These two peers were disrobed of their glory. Will cheer me ever or disscal ine now. Shak. Syn. To disguise, conceal, cloak, cover. Disrober (dis-rõb'ér), n. One that strips of Dissect (dis-sekt'), v.t. [L. disseco, dissectum, Dissemble (dis-sem'bl), v.i. 1. To be hyporobes or clothing, to cut asunder, to cut up-dis, asunder, and critical; to assume a false appearance; to Disroot (dis-röt'), v. t. [Prefix dis, priv., and seco, to cut.] 1. To cut in pieces; to divide, as conceal the real fact, motives, intention, or root.] 1. To tear up the roots of, or by the an animal body, with a cutting instrument, sentiments under some pretence. roots. by separating the joints; as, to dissect a Ye dissembled in your hearts when ye sent me Whate'er I was fowl. Hence appropriately-2. To cut in unto the Lord your God, saying, Pray for us. Disrooted, what I am is grafted here. Tennyson. pieces, as an animal or vegetable, for the Jer. xlii. 20. 2. To tear from a foundation; to loosen or purpose of examining the structure and use 2. To give a false appearance; to represent undermine. of its several parts, or to observe morbid or mirror falsely. A piece of ground disrooted from its situation by affections of its tissues; to anatomize. What wicked and dissembling glass of mine subterraneous inundations. Goldsmith. Made me compare with Hermia's sphery eyne, Shak Disrulily (dis-röl’i-li), adv. [Prefixdis,priv., We lose it in the moment we detect. Pope. and rule.] Irregularly Chaucer, Dissembler (dis-semblėr), n. One who dis 3. To divide into its constituent parts for Disruly (dis-rol'i), a. Unruly; turbulent. sembles; a hypocrite; one who conceals his the purpose of examination; to analyze for Chaucer. opinions or dispositions under a false apthe purpose of criticism; to describe with Disrupt (dis-rupt'), a. (L. disruptus, pp. of pearance; one who pretends that not to be minute accuracy. • To dissect ... fabled which is; one who feigns what he does not disrumpo (dirumpo), to break or burst asun- knights : or to describe races and feel or think. * Dissembler of his woes. der-dis, asunder, and rumpo, to burst.) games.' Milton. Rent from; torn asunder; severed by rend- Dissected (dis-sekt'ed), p. and a. Beau. & Fl. 'A deep dissembler, not of his 1. Cut in ing or breaking. (Rare or obsolete. ) affections only, but of religion.' Milton. pieces; separated by parting the joints ; Disrupt (dis-rupt'), v.t. To separate; to Disse mbler, Hypocrite. Dissembler, one that divided into its constituent parts; opened break asunder. conceals what he is; hypocrite, one that tries and examined. Disruption (dis-rup'shon), n. (L. disruptio, to make himself appear that which he is not, Or must every architect invent a little piece of the from disrumpo. See DISRUPT.] 1. The act especially to make himself appear better new style, and all put it together at last like a dis. than he is. of rending asunder; the act of bursting sected map? Ruskin. and separating; breach; rent; dilaceration; Dissembling (dis-sem'bl-ing), n. 1. The act 2. In bot. a term sometimes applied synony- of concealing under a false appearance; disbreak-up; as, the disruption of rocks in an mously with incised and laciniated to leaves earthquake; the disruption of a stratum of simulation. -2. The assumption of a false which are cut, as it were, into numerous irearth. character; hypocrisy. That may be Good now, play one scene To make disruption in the table round. Tennyson. Dissectible (dis-sekt'i-bl), a. of excellent dissemeling Shak 2. Eccles. the term applied to the rupture Dissecting (dis-sekt'ing), a. dissected. Used in dis- Dissemblingly (dis-sem'bling-li), adv. With which took place in the Established Church dissimulation; hypocritically; falsely. of Scotland in 1813, when 474 ministers and Dissection (dis-sek’shon), n. secting; as, a dissecting knife. 1. The act of Disseminate (dis-se'min-át), v. t. pret. & pp. professors demitted their charges. Those dissecting, or of cutting in pieces an animal disseminated; ppr. disseminating. [L disof them who had been sent up as commisor vegetable for the purpose of examining semino, to scatter seed-dis, distrib., and sioners to the General Assembly to meet the structure and uses of its parts; anatomy. semino, to sow, from semen, seed.] 1. To on May 18th, 1813, refused to take part in 2. The act of separating into constituent scatter or sow, as seed. (Rare. )--2. To scatconstituting it, protesting that the spiritual parts for the purpose of critical examina ter morally for growth and propagation; to independence of the church had been viotion. spread; to spread abroad. lated by the civil power, and retiring from Such strict enquiries into nature, so true and so Nor can we certainly learn that any one philosothe appointed place of meeting to another perfect a dissection of human kind, is the work of pher of note embraced our religion, till it had been hall, constituted themselves into the Gene- extraordinary diligence. Granzalle. for many years preached, and disseminated, and taken deep root. Bp. Atterbury. ral Assembly of the Free Protesting Church Dissector (dis-sekt'ér), n. One who dissects; of Scotland. The controversy preceding an anatomist. 3. To spread by diffusion or dispersion. the rupture had lasted for ten years, having Disseise, Disseize (dis-sēz'), v.t. pret. & pp. A uniform heat disseminated through the body of the earth. originated in the passing of the Veto Act, disseized; ppr. disseizing. [Prefix dis, neg., and has been called the ten years' conflict.' and seize; Fr. dessaisir, to dispossess.) In The Jews are disseminated through all the trad Addison. ing parts of the world. Disruptive (dis-ruptiv), a. 1. Causing, or law, to dispossess wrongfully: to deprive of tending to cause, disruption; rending; burst- actual seizin or possession: followed by of; Syn. To spread, diffuse, propagate, publish, ing or breaking through; accompanied by as, to disse ize a tenant of his freehold. promulgate, circulate, disperse. disruption; as, disruptive forces.--2. Pro Dissemination (dis-se'min-a"shon), n. The A man may suppose himself disseized, when he is duced by or following on disruption; as, dis Blackstone. act of scattering and propagating, like seed; ruptive effects. And pilf ring what I once did give, the act of spreading for growth and permaDisrupture (dis-ruptūr), v.t. [Prefix dis, Disseize thee of thy right. Herbert. nence. The dissemination of speculative priv., and rupture.] To rupture; to rend; Disseizee (dis-sez-ē'), n. In law, a person notions about liberty and the rights of man. to sever by tearing, breaking, or bursting. put out of possession of an estate unlawfully, Bp. Horsley. (Rare.) Disseizin (dis-sēz'in), n. In law, the act of The Gospel is of universal dissemination. Disrupture (dis-rup'tūr), n Disruption; a Fer. Taylor disseizing; an unlawful dispossessing of a rending asunder. Disseminative (dis-se'min-at-iv), a, Tend person of his lands, tenements, or incorDissatisfaction (dis - sa'tis - fak" shon), n. poreal hereditaments; a deprivation of ac ing to disseminate; tending to become dis[Prefix dis, priv., and satisfaction. ] The tual seizin. seminated or spread. state of being dissatisfied; discontent; un- Disseizor (dis-sēz-or'), n. In law, one who Heresy is, like the plague, infectious and dissemia easiness proceeding from the want of gra native, Jer. Taylor. puts another out of possession wrongfully; tification, or from disappointed wishes and he that dispossesses another. Disseminator (dis-se'min-at-ér), n. One expectations. Disseizoress (dis-sez'or-es), n. In law, a who disseminates; one who spreads and The ambitious inan is subject to uneasiness and dissatisfaction. propagates. Not re Dissension (dis-sen'shon), n. [L, dissensio, SYN. Discontent, discontentment, mortificasembling; unlike, Puttenham. difference of opinion, from dissentio, distion, disappointment, displeasure, disap- Dissemblancet (dis-sem'blans), n. [Prefix sensum. See DISSENT.] Disagreement in probation, distaste, dislike. dis, priv., and semblance.) Want of resem- opinion, usually a disagreement which is Dissatisfactoriness (dis - sa'tis-fak" to-riblance. violent, producing warm debates or angry nes), n. Inability to satisfy or give content; Nor can there be a greater dissemblance between words; contention in words; strife; discord; a failing to give content. one wise man and another. Osborne. quarrel; breach of friendship and union. Dissatisfactory (dis-sa' tis - fak"to-ri), a. Dissemblance (dis-sem'blans), n. The act Causing dissatisfaction; giving discontent; Debates, dissensions, uproars are thy joys. Dryden. of, or faculty for, dissembling. mortifying; displeasing. Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and I wanted these old instruments of state, disputation with them. Acts xv, 2. To have reduced the different qualifications in the Dissemblance and suspect. Old play. different states, to one uniform rule, would probably SYN. Contention, discord, dispute, disagreehave been as dissatisfactory to some of the states, as Dissemble (dis-sem'bl), v. t. pret. & pp. dis- ment, strife, quarrel. difficult for the convention. Hamilton. sembled; ppr. dissembling. [O. Fr. dissem- Dissensious, Dissentious (dis-sen'shus), a. Dissatisfied (dis-sa'tis-fid), p. and a. Discon- bler (Fr. dissimuler), from L. dissimulo, to Disposed to discord; quarrelsome; contentented: not satisfied; not pleased; offended. feign that a thing is not that which it is- tious; factious. (Rare. ] "The dissatisfied factions of the autocracy.' dis, priv., and simulo, to make one thing In religion they have a dissensions head; in the Bancroft. like another, to feign that a thing is that commonwealth a factious head Ascham. not so. |