DISSENSIOUSLY 65 DISSIPATED In a consent. L Dissensiously + (dis-sen'shus-li), adv. In a writes a dissertation; one who debates. heterogeneous; as, the tempers of men are Un- think otherwise, to dissent-dis, asunder, hurt; to harm; to do injury or mischief to. as, the dissimilarity of human faces and and sentio, to perceive.] 1. To disagree in (Rare.) forms. opinion; to differ; to think in a different or He took the first opportunity to disserve him. Dissimilarly (dis-si'mi-lèr-li), adv. contrary manner: with from; as, they dis Clarendon, dissimilar manner. dent from each other. He would receive no person who had disserved Dissimile (dis-si' mi-lē), n. [Prefix dis, neg., him into any favour or trust, without her privity and The bill passed ... without a dissenting voice. and simile (which see).) Comparison or Brougham. illustration by contraries. [Rare.) church in regard to doctrines, rites, or gov- and service.] Injury; harm; mischief. similitudo--dis, neg., and similitudo, likeernment.–3. To differ; to be of a contrary We shall rather perform good offices unto truth, ness, from similis, like.] 1. Unlikeness; want nature. than any disservice unto their relators. Sir T. Browne. of resemblance; as, a dissimilitude of form Every one ought to embrace the religion which or character. is true, and to shun, as hurtful, whatever dissenteti Disserviceable (dis-sér vis-a-bl), a. Injurifrom it, but that inost which doth farthest dissent. ous; hurtful. Thereupon grew marvellous dissimilitudes, and Hooker by reason thereof jealousies, heartburnings, Jars, and Disserviceableness (dis-ser'vis-a-bl-nes), n. discords. Hooker. Dissent (dis-sent), n. 1. Difference of opi- The quality of being injurious; tendency to vion, disagreement. harm. 2. In rhet. a comparison by contrast; a dis simile. Suspense or dissent are voluntary actions. Locke. Disserviceably (dis-ser'vis-a-bli), adv. In To dis Dissimulate (dis-si'mū-lāt), v.i. semble; to make pretence; to feign. North British Rev. H. More. Act of Dissimulate, t a. Dissembling; feigning. Under smiling she was dissimulate. Chaucer. posite quality. The dissent of the metals.' No conveyancer could ever in more compendious Dissimulation (dis-si'mū-lā"shon), n. [L. Bacon. or binding terms have drawn a dissettlement of the dissimulatio, a dissembling, from dissimulo, Marvell. dissimulatum, to feign that a thing is not agreeing; contrary; inconsistent Dissever (dis-sev'er), v.t. [Prefix dis, asun- what it is--dis, priv., simulo, to make like, They disapprove it as dissentaneous to the Chris- der, and sever.) To dispart; to part in two; from similis, like. See DISSEMBLE.) The tias religion. Sir P. Rycaut. to divide asunder; to separate; to disunite, act of dissembling; a hiding under a false Dissentany+ (dis'sen-ta-ni), a. Dissentane either by violence or not; as, the Reforma- appearance; a feigning; false pretension; ous; inconsistent. tion dissevered the Catholic Church. hypocrisy. The parts are not discrete or dissentany, for both Dissever your united strengths Let love be without dissimulation. Rom. xii. 9. conclude not putting away, and consequently in such And part your mingled colours once again. Shak. Before we discourse of this vice, it will be neces. a form the proposition is ridiculous, Milton, Disseverance (dis-sev'ér-ans), n. The act sary to observe that the learned make a difference (Some authorities read the word in this pas- of dissevering; separation. between simulation and dissimulation. Simulation sage dissentary) Disseveration (dis-sev-er-a'shon), n. Act is a pretence of what is not, and dissimulation a Tatier. Dissimulet (dis-si'mūl), v.t. To dissemble; to conceal. sents; one who differs in opinion, or one But soon as he again disshadowed is, Howbeit this one thing he could neither dissimule who declares his disagreement. * The dis- Restoring the blind world his blemished sight. Holland nor pass over in silence. G. Fletcher. Dissimulert (dis-si'mū-ler), n. A dissem2 Eccles. one who separates from the ser Dissheathet (dis-sheth'), v.t. [Prefix dis, bler. Order of Com. Prayer, Ed. VI. vice and worship of any established church; Dissheathet (dis-shēth'), v.i. To drop or fall priv., and sheath.) To unsheath. Dissimuling, n. The act of dissembling specifically, one who separates from, or who or dissimulating; dissemblance; dissimula from a sheath. does not unite with, the Church of England. tion. 'Swiche subtil lokings and dissimuDissenterism (dis-sent'èr-izm), n. The And in mounting hastily on horseback, his sword lings.' Chaucer. dissheathing pierced his own thigh. Raleigh, spirit or the principles of dissent or of dis Dissimuloure,t n. A dissembler. Chaucer. senters Disship 1 (dis-ship'), v.t. (Prefix dis, priv., Dissipable (dis'si-pa-bl), a. [See DISSIPATE ) Dissentient (dis-sen'shi-ent), a. Disagree- and ship.) To remove from a ship. Liable to be dissipated; that may be scating; declaring dissent; voting differently. Disshivert (dis-shi'ver), v.t. [Prefix dis, tered or dispersed. * Without one dissentient voice.' Knox. asunder, and shiver.) To shiver in pieces. The heat of those plants is very dissipable. Dissentient (dis-sen'shi-ent), n. One who Disshivered speares, and shields ytorne in twaine. Bacon. disagrees an declares his dissent Spenser. Dissipate (dis'si-pāt), v.t. pret. & pp. dissiDissenting (dis-sent'ing), p. and a. Dis Dissidence (dis'si-dens), n. (See DISSIDENT.) pated; ppr. dissipating. [L. dissipo, dissiagreeing in opinion; separating from an Disagreement; dissent; nonconformity. patum, to spread abroad, scatter, disperse established church; having the character of Dissidence in Poland is dissent in England, -dis, asunder, and the rare sipo, supo, to dissent; belonging to or connected with a Dr. R. G. Latham. throw. Allied probably to E. verb to sweep. ] body of dissenters; as, a dissenting minister Dissident (dis'si-dent), a. [L. dissidens, 1. To scatter; to disperse; to drive away. or congregation; a dissenting chapel. dissidentis, ppr. of dissideo, to disagree--dis, Wind dissipates fog; the heat of the sun Dissentious. See DISSENSIOUS. asunder, and sedeo, to sit.] 1. Not agree- dissipates vapour; mirth dissipates care and Dissepiment (dis-se'pi-ment), n. (L. dis- ing; varying. anxiety; the cares of life tend to dissipate sepimentum, a partition--dis, asunder, and Our life and manners be dissident from theirs. serious reflections. sepio, to hedge in, inclose, from se pes, a Sir T. More. The more clear light of the gospel ... dissipated hedge1. In bot. a partition formed in an 2. Dissenting; specifically, dissenting from those foggy mists of error. Selaer ovary by the united sides of the established church. (Rare.) 2. To spend lavishly; to squander; to scatter cohering carpels, and se Dissident priests also give trouble enough. property in wasteful extravagance; to waste; parating the inside into Carlyle, to consume. The vast wealth that was left him, being reckoned ments are divisions in ova from others; one who votes or gives his no less than eighteen hundred thousand pounds, was ries not formed by the sides opinion about any point in opposition to in three years dissipated. Burnet of the carpels. -- 2. In zool. others; specifically, (a) a dissenter; one who 3. To weaken, as the mind or intellect, hy a name given to the imperseparates from an established religion. giving one's self up to too many pursuits; to fect horizontal plates which aa, Dissepiments. Next year we hope a Catholic Oaths Bill will pass, squander upon, or devote to, too many dif- ferent subjects. acted from dissidents as the seats of the queerest The extreme tendency of civilization is to dissipate tween the septa into a series of cells com- old-fashioned bigotry, Sat. Rev. Hazlitt. municating with each other. More specifically, () a Lutheran, Calvinist, --Dissipate, Disperse, Scatter. These words Dissertt (dis-sért'), v. i. [L. dissero, dissertum, or adherent of the Greek Church in Poland, are in many cases synonymous, or nearly so. to set asunder or apart; hence, to examine, who, under the old elective monarchy, was Dissipate, however, properly applies to the argue, discuss-dis, asunder, and sero, to allowed the free exercise of his faith. dispersion of things that vanish or are not sow, to plant.) To discourse or dispute. I have a great opinion of the cogency of the con afterwards collected; as, to dissipate vapour; A venerable sage, whom once I heard disserting troversial arguments of the Russian troops in favour to dissipate a fortune. Scatter and disperse on the topic of religion. Harris. of the dissidents. Lord Chesterfield. are applied to things which do not neces. Dissertate (dis'sėrt-át). v.i. To deal in dis- Dissight (dis-sīt), n. [Prefix dis, neg., and sarily vanish, and which may be again sertation; to write dissertations; to dis- sight.] An eyesore; anything offensive to the brought together; as, to scatter or disperse course. J. Foster. sight. troops; to scatter or disperse trees over a Dissertation (dis-sért-a'shon), n. [L. disser- Dissilience (dis-si'li-ens), n. [L. disilio, to field -- SYN. To disperse, scatter, dispel, tatio, a disquisition, from disserto, a freq. leap asunder-dis, asunder, and salio, to spend, expend, squander, waste, consume. of dissero. See DISSERT.] 1. A discourse, leap.] The act of leaping or starting asunder. Dissipate (dis'si-pāt), v.i. 1. To scatter; to usually a formal discourse, intended to Dissilient (dis-si’li-ent),a. (See DISSILIENCE.) disperse; to separate into parts and disillustrate a subject. --2. A written essay, Starting asunder; bursting and opening with appear; to waste away; to vanish; as, a fog treatise, or disquisition; as, Newton's dis- an elastic force, as the dry pod or capsule or cloud gradually dissipates before the rays sertations on the prophecies. Plutarch, of a plant; as, a dissilient pericarp. or heat of the sun.-2. To be extravagant, in his dissertation upon the poets. Broome. Dissilition (dis-si-li'shon), n. The act of wasteful, or dissolute in the pursuit of pleaDissertational (dis-sért-å'shon-al), a. Re- bursting open; the act of starting or spring- sure; to indulge in dissipation; to practise lating to dissertations; disquisitional ing different ways. Boyle. (Rare.] debauchery or loose conduct; to live idly Dissertationist (dis-sér-ta'shon-ist), n. One Dissimilar (dis-si'mi-ler), a. [Prefix dis, and luxuriously who writes dissertations; a dissertator. neg., and similar.] Unlike, either in nature, Dissipated (dis'si-pät-ed), a. Loose; irreDissertator (dis'sėr-tät-ér), n. One who properties, or external form; not similar; gular; given to extravagance in the expendi ng, sing; TH, then; th, thin; w, wig; wh, whig; zh, azure.-See KEY. DISSIPATION 66 DISSUADE ture of property; devoted to pleasure and of manners and morals; vicious indulgence Seeing then that all these things shall be dissorted vice; as, a dissipated man; a dissipated life.! in pleasure, as in intemperance and de. what manner of persons cught ye to be in all holy Dissipation (dis-si-pa'shon), n. 2 Pet. iii. II. 1. The act bauchery; dissipation; as, dissoluteness of conversation ani godiiness of scattering; dispersion; the state of being life or manners. Chivalry had the vices of 7. To annul; to rescind; as, to dissolve an dispersed; as, the dissipation of vapour or dissoluteness.' Bancroft. injunction. -- Dissolred blood, blood that heat. Dissolution (dis-só-lū'shon), n. [L. dissolu does not readily coagulate. ---Melt, Dissolde, Foul dissipation followed, and forced rout. tio, a breaking up, a loosening, from dis Thaw See under MELT. Milton. 2. In physics, the insensible loss of the mi. solco. See DISSOLVE] 1. The act of dis. · Dissolve (diz-zolv), v. i. 1. To be melted; to solving, liquefying, or changing from a solid ! be converted from a solid to a fluid state; nute particles of a body, which fly off, so that to a fluid state by heat; the state of under-1 as, sugar dissolres in water. -2. To sink away; the body is diminished or may altogether disa! to lose strength and firmness. • The charm appear. -—3. The act of weakening the mind i going liquefaction; liquefaction; a melting: a thawing; as, the dissolution of snow and dissolres apace.' Shak.–3. To melt away or intellect by giving it up to too many ice, which converts them into water. in pleasure; to become soft or languid pursuits; devotion of the attention to too I am as subject to heat as butter, a man of con 4. To fall asunder; to crumble; to be broken: many different subjects; scattered or dis tinual dissolution and thaw. Shak. to waste away: to perish; to be decomposed; tracted attention.-4. That which diverts and calls off the mind from any subject. 2. The reduction of a body into its smallest as, a government may dissolve by its own weight or extent; flesh dissolves by putre* Prevented from finishing them (letters) by parts, or into very minute parts, by a dis faction a thousand avocations and dissipations.' solvent or menstruum, as of a metal by The great globe itself, Swift.-5. Indulgence in dissolute and irre nitro-muriatic acid, or of salts in water. --- Yea, all which it inherit shall dissolve. Shak. gular courses; a reckless and vicious pur3. The separation of the parts of a body by 5. To lose physical strength; to faint; to die. suit of pleasure; dissolute conduct. natural decomposition, or the analysis of If there be more, more woeful, hold it in; What is it proposed then to reclaim the spend For I am almost ready to dissoite, thrift from his dissi Artion and extravagance, by animal or vegetal le substances; decompo Hearing of this. Skak. filing his pockets with money? W'm, IVirt. sition -4+ The substance formed by dis 6. To be dismissed; to separate; to break up: --Circle of dissipation, in optics, the circusolving a body in a menstruum; solution. as, the council dissolved. lar space upon the retina of the eye, which Bacon. --5. Death; the separation of the soul is taken up by one of the extreme pencils of and body. She, ending, wared her hands; thereat the crowd. We expected Muttering, dissolved. Tennyson. rays issuing from any object. --- Radius of dis- Immediate dissolution, which we thought Dissolvent (diz-zolv'ent), a. Having power sipation, the radius of the circle of dissipa- Was meant by death that day. Milton to melt or dissolve; as, the dissolvent juices tion 6. Destruction; the separation of the parts of the stomach. Dissitet (dis'sit), a. [L. dissitus--dis, asun which compose a connected system or body; Dissolvent (diz-zolv'ent), n. 1. Anything der, and situs, placed ] Situated apart; as, the dissolution of nature; the dissolution which has the power or quality of melting scattered; separate. Lands far dissite and of government. To make a present dissolu- or converting a solid substance into a fluid, remote asunder. Holland tion of the world.' Hooker.--7. The break- or of separating the parts of a fixed body Dissociability (dis - so'shi-a-bil"i-ti), n. ing up of an assembly, or the putting an end so that they mix with a liquid; as, water is Want of sociability. Bp. Warburton. (Rare.) to its existence. a dissolrent of salts and earths. It is otherDissociable (dis-sõ'shi-a-bl), a. (See DissoCIATE.] 1. Not well associated, united, or Dissolution is the civil death of Parliament. wise called a menstruum or solcent. Blackstone 2 That which dissolves, breaks up, or assorted; not sociable; incongruous; not re- 8. + The act of relaxing or weakening; ener- loosens: in a figurative sense. concilable. vation; looseness or laxity, as of manners; The secret treaty of December acted as an immeThey came in two and two, though matched in the dissipation; dissoluteness. A universal dis- diate dissolvent to the truce. Morley, most dissociable manner. Spectator, 3. In med. a remedy supposed capable of Not only all falsehood is incongruous to a divine A longing after sensual pleasures is a dissolution dissolving concretions in the body, such as mission, but is dissociable with all truth. Warburton. of the spirit of a man, and makes it loose, soft, and calculi, tubercles, &c. Yer. Taylor 2. Having a power or tendency to dissolve Dissolver (diz-zolv'er), n. One who or that social connections; unsuitable to society. - Dissolution of the blood, in med. that state which dissolves or has the power of dissolvDissocial (dis-so'shi-al), a. (Dis and social. ] of the blood in which it does not readily ing: as, heat is the most powerful dissolter Disinclined to or unsuitable for society; not coagulate on its cooling, when withdrawn of substances. social; contracted; selfish; as, a dissocial from the body, as in malignant fevers. - Dissolviblet (diz-zolv'i-hl), a. Liable to dispassion Adjournment, Recess, Prorogation, Dissolu- solution. Man .. of his nature disDissocialize (dis-so'shi-al-iz), v. t. To make tion. See under ADJOURNMENT. solrible.' Sir Jl. Hale. unsocial; to disunite. Dissolvability (diz-zolv'a-bil"i-ti), n. Capa- Dissolving (diz-zolv'ing), p. and a. Melting; Dissociate (dis-so'shi-ät)v.t. pret. & pp. bility of being dissolved; solubility. making or becoming liquid; breaking up; dissociated; ppr. dissociating. (L. dissocio, Dissolvable (diz-zolva-bl), a. (See Dis separating; vanishing. – Dissolring rievs, dixsociatum--dis, and socio, to unite, from SOLVE.] That may be dissolved; capable of views painted on glass slides, which, by a socius, a companion.) To separate; to dis being melted; that may be converted into particular arrangement and manipulation unite; to part; as, to dissociate the particles a fluid; as, sugar and ice are dissolvable of two magic lanterns, can be made to apof a concrete substance. 'Dissociating every bodies. pear and vanish at pleasure, others replacstate from every other, like deer separated Dissolvableness (diz-zolv’a-bl-nes), n. State ing them. Thus, one view appears of great from the herd. Burke. of being dissolvable. size and with great distinctness on a screen, Dissociation (dis-so'shi-ā"shon), n. The act Dissolve (diz-zolv), v. t. pret. & pp. dissolved; and then, by the gradual removal of the of disuniting; a state of separation; disunion. ppr. dissolring. (L. dissolro, to break up, to slide from the focus, it gradually becomes It will add to the dissociation, distraction, and separate--dis, asunder, and solro, to loose, fainter and ultimately vanishes; while anconfusion of these confederate republics. Burke. to free. See SOLVE) 1. To melt; to liquery; other, faintly at first, but with progressively to convert from a solid or fixed state to a Dissolubility (dis'so-lū-bil"i-ti), n. There are increasing intensity, replaces it. Capacity of being dissolved by heat or moisture, fluid state, by means of heat or moisture. other modes of producing this effect. and converted into a fluid. To dissolve by heat, is to loosen the parts Dissonance (dis'ső-rans), n. (Fr. dissonance, Dissoluble (dis'so-lū-bl), a. (L. dissolubilis. of a solid body and render them fluid or from L dissonantia, discordance - dis. See DISSOLVE.) 1. Capable of being dis easily movable Thus ice is converted into asunder, and sono, to sound. See SOUND.] solved; that may be melted; having its parts water by being dissolved To dissolve in a 1 Discord; a mixture or union of harsh, separable, as by heat or moisture; converti liquid, is to separate the particles of a solid inharmonious sounds, which are grating or ble into a fluid; susceptible of decomposi substance, and cause them to mix with the unpleasant to the ear; as, the dissonance of tion or decay. fluid; or to reduce a solid substance into notes or sounds. minute particles which may be sustained If all be atoms, how then should the gods The wonted roar was up amidst the woods, Being atomic not be dissoluble ! Tennyson. in that fluid; as, water dissolves salt and And fill'd the air with barbarous dissonance. Wilton. sugar 2. That may be disunited. A distinction is made between chemical and physi. 2. Disagreement; incongruity; inconsistency. Dissolubleness (dis'so-lu-bl-nes), n. The cal solution: in the former case the substance is first Milton. quality of being dissoluble. altered chemically by the solvent, and the new body Dissonancy (dis'so-nan-si), n. Discord; disDissolute (dis'ső lūt), a. (L dissolutus, pp. thus formed goes into solution; in the latter, the sub- sonance; incongruity; inconsistency. "The stance dissolves without alteration of its chemical of dissolvo. See DISSOLVE) 1. Enfeebled; Ferguson. ugliness of sin and the dissonancy of it unto relaxed. Spenser.-2. Loose in behaviour 2. To disunite; to break up; to separate; to reason.' Jer. Taylor. and morals: given to vice and dissipation; Dissonant (dis'so-nant), a. 1. Discordant; wanton; lewd; luxurious; debauched; not loosen; to destroy any connected system or harsh; jarring; unharmonious; unpleasant under the restraints of law; as, a dissolute body; to put an end to; as, to dissolve a to the ear; as, dissonant notes or intervals. man; dissolute company. A wild and dis government; to dissolve parliament; to dissolute soldier' Motley.-3. Characterized by solve a corporation. --3. To loosen morally; Dire were the strain, and dissonant to sing. Thomson. to break; as, to dissolve an alliance; to disdissoluteness; devoted to pleasure and dissolve the bonds of friendship. 2. Disagreeing: incongruous; as, he ad. sipation; as, a dissolute life. - SYN. Un vanced propositions very dissonant from To dissolve curbed, unbridled, disorderly, wild, wanton, truth. Allegiance to the acknowledged Power supreme. luxurious, vicious, lewd, rakish, debauched. Milton. When (conscience) reports anything dissonant to Dissolutedt (dis'so-lūt-ed), p. and a. Loos- 4. To clear; to solve; to remove; to explain; these, it obliges no more than the falsehood reported by it. Seuth ened; unconfined. * Dissoluted hair.' C. to resolve. Smart Dissoned, t pp. (Fr.) Dissonant Chaucer, Thou canst ... dissolve doubts. Dan. v. 16. Dissolutely (dis'ső-lut-li), adv. 1.7 In a loose Disspirit, r.t. Same as Depirit. Dissolve this doubtful riddle. Massinger or relaxed manner; so as to loosen or set Dissuade (dis-swad), r.t. pret & pp. disfree. 5. To destroy the power of; to deprive of suaded; ppr. dissuading. (L. dissuadeo, to force; as, to dissolve a charm, spell, or enThen were the prisons disseldely freed advise against-dis, priv., and suadeo, to Both field and town with wretchedness to fill. chantment. advise or incite to anything ) 1. To advise Dryden. The running stream dissolved the spell, or exhort against; to attempt to draw or 2. In a moral sense, loosely; wantonly; in And his own elvish shape he took. Sir W. Scott divert from a measure by reason or offering dissipation or debauchery; without re- 6. To consume; to cause to vanish or perish; motives; as the minister strongly disstraint; as, to live dissolutely. to destroy, as by fire. suaded the prince from adopting the meaDissoluteness (dis'ső-lut-nes), n. Looseness Thou ... dissolvest my substance. Job xxx. 22. sure, but his arguments were not success nature. DISSUADER 67 DISTASTE ful – 2. To divert by persuasion; to turn Distal (ilis'tal), a. [From distant: formed on Thus, if the spectator's eye be at any point from a purpose by argument; to render the type of central.] In anat. bot. and zool. o, and straight lines be drawn from that averse. applied to the end of a bone, limb, or organ point to two objects A and B separated from We submit to Cæsar, promising farthest removed from the point of attach- each other, the angle AOB contained by To pay our wonted tribute, from the which ment or insertion, or to the quickly-growing these lines is called the angular distance of We were dissuaded by our wicked queen. Shak. end of the organism of a hydrozoon; situ- the two objects. In the apparent sphere of 3. To represent as unfit, improper, or dan ated away from or at the extremity most the heavens distance always means angular gerous distant from the centre; as, the distal aspect distance. The term apparent distance is War, therefore, open or concealed, alike. of a bone. Alilton. frequently applied in the same case. Distally (dis'tal-li), adv. Towards the distal Distance (dis' tans), v.t. pret. & pp. disDissuader (dis-swăd'ér), n. He that dis end; towards the extremity; remotely. tanced; ppr. distancing. 1. To place at a suades; a dehorter. Distance (dis'tans), n. (Fr.; L. distantia, a distance or remote. standing apart, distance, from disto, to I heard nothing thereof at Oxford, being then Fuller. act of attempting, by reason or motives 1. An interval or space between two objects; 2. In racing, to leave behind in a race; to offered, to divert from a purpose or mea the length of the shortest line which inter- win the race by a great superiority; more sure: dehortation. In spite of all the dis venes between two things that are separate; specifically, to overcome in a race by at least suasions of his friends.' . Boyle.-2. A dis as, a great or small distance.--2. Remote- the space between the distance and winning suasive motive. (Rare.) ness of place; a remote place: often with at. posts. — 3. To leave at a great distance beDissuasive (dis-swa'siv), a. Tending to dis 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, hind; to outdo; to excel greatly. suade or divert from a measure or purpose; And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Campbell, He distanced the most skilful of his cotemporaries. dehortatory. 'Dissuasive reasonings.' Abp. He waits at distance till he hears from Cato. Milner. Secker. Addison. 4. To cause to appear at a distance; to cause Dissuasive (dis-swā'siv), n. Reason, argu- 3. Space of time; any indefinite length of to appear remote. (Rare.] ment, or counsel, employed to deter one time, past or future, intervening between His peculiar art of distancing an object to aggran. from a measure or purpose; that which is two periods or events; as, the distance of an dize his space. H. Miller. used or which tends to divert the mind hour, of a year, of an age. Distance-signal (dis'tans-sig-nal), n. In from any purpose or pursuit. “A hearty Where was he, rail. the most distant of the series of signals dissuasive from : .. the practice of swear So blunt in memory, so old at heart, under the control of a signal-man. Distance. Distancyt (dis'tan-si), n. Distant (dis'tant), a. (L. distans, standing apart, ppr. of disto. See DISTANCE.) 1. SepDissuasory (dis-swă'so-ri), n. A dissuasion. Qualities that affect our senses are, in the things arate; apart, the intervening space being of This virtuous and reasonable person, however, has theinselves, so united and blended, that there is no any indefinite extent; as, one point may be ul luck in all his disstursories. Jeffrey. Locke. less than a line or a hair's breadth distant Dissuasory (dis-swā'so-ri), a. Dissuasive. 5. Contrariety; opposition. from another; Saturn is supposed to be (Rare.) Banquo was your enemy, nearly 900,000,000 miles distant from the sun. Dissunder (dis-sun'der), v.t. (Prefix dis, So he is mine, and in such bloody distance, Shak. 2. Remote; as, (a) in place; as, a distant asunder, and sunder.) To separate; to rend. 6. The remoteness which respect requires: object appears under a small angle. (6) In Chapman (Rare or obsolete. ) often preceded by thy, his, her, your, their; time, past or future; as, a distant age or Dissweetent (dis-swėt'n), v.t. (Prefix dis, as, keep your distance; hence, respect. period of the world. (c) In the line of priv., and sweeten.) To deprive of sweetness. I hope your modesty succession or descent, indefinitely; as, a By excess the sweetest comforts will be dissweetened. Will know what distance to the crown is due. distant descendant; a distant ancestor; Bp. Richaritson. Dryden distant posterity. (d) In natural connecDissyllabic (dis-sil-lab'ik), a. Consisting of 'Tis by respect and distance that authority is upheld. two syllables only; as, a dissyllabic foot in tion or consanguinity; as, a distant relaAtterbury. tion; distant kindred; a distant collateral poetry 7. The remoteness or reserve which one as line. (e) In kind or nature; hence, not Dissyllabification (dis-sil-lab'i-fi-ka"shon), sumes from being offended, from dislike, allied; not agreeing with or in conformity n. Act of forming into two syllables. &c.: often preceded by my, our, &c.; as, I to; as, practice very distant from principles Dissyllabify (dis-sil-lab'i-fi), v.t. To form will keep my distance from that fellow; or profession. What besides this unhappy servility to custom can On the part of heaven, reconcile men that own Christianity to a practice so into or express in two syllables. Now alienated, distance and distaste. Milton. widely distant from it? Government of the Tongue. Dissyllable (dis'sil-la-bi), n. (Gr. dissyllabos 8. Remoteness in succession or relation; (1) In view or prospect; hence, not very --dis, two or twice, and syllabos, a syllable.) as, the distance between a descendant and likely to be realized; slight; faint; as, a disA word consisting of two syllables only; as, his ancestor.-9. In music, the interval be- tant glimpse; a distant hope or prospect. paper, whiteness, virtue. tween two notes; as, the distance of a fourth (9) In connection; hence, slight; faint; as, Dissympathy (dis-sim'pa-thi), n. (Prefix or seventh.-10. In horse-racing, a length of a distant idea; a distant resemblance. dis, priv., and sympathy.) Want of sym- 240 yards from the winning-post, at which 3. Sounding remote or as if remote; sound_pathy or interest; indifference. (Rare.) point is placed the distance-post. ing faintly. Distackle (dis-tak'l), v. t. [Prefix dis, priv., horse has not reached this distance-post The boy's cry came to her from the field, and tackle.) To divest of tackle or rigging before the first horse in that heat has More and more distant. Tennyson. Distad (dis'tad), adv. In anat. away from reached the winning-post, such horse is dis- 4. Indirect; not obvious or plain. . In the centre; towards the far extremity; to- tanced, and disqualified for running again modest terms and distant phrases.' Addison. wanis the distal aspect of the body. during that race. 5. Not cordial; characterized by haughtiDistaff (dis'taf), n. pl. Distaffs (dis'tafs), This was the horse that ran the whole field out of ness, coldness, indifference, or disrespect; very rarely Distaves (dis'tåvz). (A. Sax. distance. L'Estrange. reserved; shy; as, the manners of a person distæf, from staff and an old word signify 11. Milit. space between bodies of troops are distant. He passed me with a distant bow. Goldsmith the flax on the distaff; allied to L.G. diesse, Mean distance of the planets, in astron. a SYN. Separate, remote, removed, apart, far, the bunch of flax on the distaff; G. dusse, mean between their aphelion and perihelion slight, faint, indirect, indistinct, shy, cold, tow, oakum.] 1. The staff to which a bunch distances. See APHELION, PERIHELION. - haughty, cool of flax or tow is tied, and from which the Proportional distances of the planets, the Distantialt (dis-tan'shi-al), a. Remote in thread is drawn distances of the several planets from the sun, place; distant. The loaded distaff in the left hand placed, compared with the distance of any one of Distantly (dis'tant-li), adv. Remotely; at With spongy coils of snow-white wool was graced; them considered as unity.--Real distances, a distance; with reserve. the absolute distances of those bodies as Distaste (dis - tāst'). n. (Prefix dis, priv., Trans. of Catullus. compared with any terrestrial measure, as and taste.] 1. Aversion of the taste; dislike He's so below a beating that the women find him miles, leagues, &c. - Law of distances, a law of food or drink; disrelish; disgust, or a not worthy of their distaves, and to bang him were observed by Prof. Bode of Berlin, thus ex- slight degree of it. -2. Discomfort; uneasito cast away a rope. Beran. & FI. pressed: ‘The intervals between the planet- ness. 2. Fig. a woman, or the female sex. ary orbits go on doubling as we recede Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, His crown usurped, a distaff on the throne. Dryden. from the sun, or nearly so.'--Curtate dis- and adversity is not without comfort and hopes. Bacon. tance. See CURTATE.-- Accessible distances, 3. Dislike; displeasure; alienation of affec tion. On the part of Heaven by the application of any lineal measure, Syn. Disrelish, disinclination, dislike, discolour-des for L dis, priv., and teindre, but by theans of angles and trigonometrical pleasure, dissatisfaction, disgust. from L. tingere, to stain.) 1. To stain; to rules and formulæ. -- Apparent distance. Distaste (dis-tāst'), v.t. pret. & pp. distasted; tinge with any different colour from the See APPARENT. - Meridian distance. See ppr. distasting. 1. To disrelish; to dislike; natural or proper one; to discolour; as, a MERIDIAN. - Line of distance, in persp. a to loathe; as, to distaste drugs or poisons. sword distained with blood. straight line drawn 2. To offend; to disgust; to vex; to displease; Place on their heads that crown distaind with gore. from the eye to the to sour. 'Suitors are so distasted with deprincipal point of the A 2. To blot; to sully; to defile; to tarnish. lays and abuses.' Bacon. plane. - Point of dis He thought it no policy to distaste the English or She distained her honourable blood. Spenser, tance, in persp. that Irish, but sought to please them. Davies. The worthiness of praise distains his worth. Shak. point in the horizontal B 3. To spoil the taste or relish of; to change to the worse; to corrupt. Her brain sick raptures Cannot distaste the goodness of a quarrel, eye is from the same. Which hath our several honours all engaged 'Shak. My lady comnieth, that all this may distin. Chaucer. which the directions of two bodies include. (Rare in all its senses. ) If any Pope. DISTASTEFUL 68 DISTINCT . In a Distasteful (dis-tāst'ful), a. 1. Nauseous; larity; disorder. – 5. Illness; indisposition. trickle down, to distil --de, down, and stillo, unpleasant or disgusting to the taste. 2. Of. *Pale distemperatures and foes to life.' Shak. to drop, from stilla, a drop, probably confensive; displeasing; as, a distasteful truth. Distempered (dis-tem'pérd), p. and a. 1. Dis- nected with stiria, a frozen drop or icicle.) 3. Indicating distaste, dissatisfaction, or dis- eased in body or disordered in mind; as, a 1. To drop; to fall in drops. like; repulsive; malevolent. Distasteful distempered body; a distempered limb; a Soft showers distilled, and suns grew warm in vain. looks.' Shak. - SYN. Nauseous, offensive, distempered head or brain. -- 2. Put out of Pope. displeasing, dissatisfactory. temper; disturbed; ruffled; ill-humoured. 2. To flow gently or in a small stream Distastefully (dis-tast'iul-li), adv. The king is marvellous distempered. Shak. The Euphrates distilleth out of the mountains of displeasing or offensive manner. Armenia. Raleigh. Distastefulness (dis-tastiųl-nes), n. Dis 3. Deprived of temper or moderation; imagreeableness; dislike. moderate; as, distempered zeal. — 4. Dis 3. To use a still; to practise distillation. ordered; biased; prejudiced; perverted; as, Distil («lis-til'), rt 1. To yield or give forth, Distastive (dis-tástiv), n. That which gives minds distempered by interest or passion. as a still; to let fall in drops; to drop. disrelish or aversion. The drowsy hours, dispensers of all good, Distasturet (ilis-tást'ür), n. The state of The imagination, when completely distempered, O'er the mute city stole with folded wings, is the most incurable of all disordered faculties. being displeased, dissatistied, or vexed. Distillos odours on me as they went Buckminster Speed. To greet their fairer sisters of the East. 5. Disaffected; made malevolent. ‘Distem Tennyson. Distemper (dis-tem'pėr), n. (Prefix dis, pered lords.' Shak. The dew which on the tender grass priv., and temper.] 1. An undue or unnatural Distemperedness (dis-tem'pèrd-nes), n. The evening had distilled, Drayton. temper, or disproportionate mixtureof parts. State of being distempered. 2. To obtain or extract by the process of Hence-2. Disease; malady: indisposition: Distemperment (dis - tem’per - ment), n. distillation; as, to distil brandy from wine. any morbid state of an animal body or of Distempered state; distemperature. Fel- 3. To subject to the process of distillation; any part of it; a state in which the animal than, to rectify; to purify; as, to distil molasses; economy is deranged or imperfectly carried Distend (dis-tend'), v.t. (L. distendo, to to distil water.-4. To dissolve or melt. on: most commonly applied to the diseases stretch asunder, stretch out dis, asunder, [Rare.) of brutes. and tendo, to tend, to stretch, from the root Swords by the lightning's subtle force distilled. Of no distemper, of no blast he died, of teneo, to hold, seen in Gr. teino, to Addison. But fell like autumn fruit that mellowed long. stretch. ] 1. To stretch or spread in all direc- Distillable (alis-til’a-bl), a. That may be Dryden. tions; to dilate; to enlarge; to expand; to distilled; fit for distillation. Distillate (dis-tilat), 1. monly considered as a catarrhal disorder, In chem. a fluid and in general characterized by a running the lungs. distilled, and found in the receiver of a disfrom the nose and eyes as one of the first and The effect of such a mass of garbage is to distend tilling apparatus. the stomach. Prichard. Distillation (dis-til-a'shon), n. 1. The act leading symptoms; it is usually accompanied by a short dry cough, and succeeded by How such ideas of the Almighty's power of falling in drops, or the act of pouring or wasting of the flesh, and loss of strength and (Ideas not absurd) distond the thought! Young, throwing down in drops. - 2. The volatilizaspirits.-4. Want of due temperature: ap 2. To spread apart; as, to distend the legs. tion and subsequent condensation of a liquid plied to climate; extreme weather, whether 3. To stretch out in length; to extend, by means of an alembic, or still and refrigerhot or cold. Upon the earth my body I distend. Stirling atory, or of a retort and receiver; the operCountries under the tropic of a distem per unin. What mean these coloured streaks in heaven dis ation of extracting spirit from a substance habitable. Raleigh. by evaporation and condensation; rectificaMilton, tion. In the commercial language of this 5. Bad constitution of the mind; undue SYN. To dilate, expand, enlarge, swell. country distillation means the manufacture predominance of a passion or appetite. – Distend (alis-tend'), v... To become inflated 6. Want of due balance of parts or opposite or distended; to swell. of intoxicating spirits, under which are com prehended the four processes of mashing qualities and principles. And now his heart distends with pride. Milton. the vegetable materials, cooling the worts, Temper and distemper (of empire) consist of con- Distensibility (dis-tens'i-bil"i-ti), n. The exciting the vinous fermentation, and sepatraries. Bacon. quality or capacity of being distensible. rating, by a peculiar vessel called a still, the 7.Ill humour; bad temper. Distensible (dis-tens'i-bl), a. Capable of alcohol, combined with more or less water. I was not forgetful of those sparks, which some being distended or dilated. The most common method of conducting men's distempers formerly studied to kindle in parlia- Distension (dis-ten'shon), n. Same as dis the process of distillation consists in placing ment. Eikon Basilike. tention (which see). the liquid to be distilled in a copper vessel 8. Political disorder; tumult. Waller. Distensive (dis-tens'iv), a. 1. That may be called the still, having a movable head from 9. Uneasiness. distended. -2. That distends. which proceeds a coiled tube called the There is a sickness Distentt (dis-tent'), a. Spread; distended. worm that passes through water constantly Which puts some of us in distemper. Shak. Some others were new driven, and distent kept cold. Heat being applied to the still, SYN. Disorder, disease, sickness, malady, in- Into great ingowes and to wedges square. the liquid in it is volatilized and rises in disposition Srenser, vapour into the head of the still, whence Distemper. (dis-tem'pér), n. [It distempe. Distent (dis-tent'), n. Breadth. rare, to dissolve or mix with liquid.] In Distention (dis-ten'shon), n. (L. distentio, passing down the curved tube or worm it becomes condensed by the cold water, and painting, (a) a preparation of opaque colour, a stretching out, from distendo. See Dis makes its exit in a liquid state. This liquid ground with size and water; tempera. (b) A TEND.] 1. The act of distending; the act of consists of alcohol mixed with a large porkind of painting in which the pigments are stretching in breadth or in all directions; tion of water. It then undergoes the process mixed with size, and chiefly used for scene- the state of being distended; as, the disten. of rectification, in which the sp rit is concenpainting and interior decoration. Spelled tion of the lungs or bowels.--2. Breadth; trated and purified principally by means of also Destemper. extent or space occupied by the thing disDistemper (dis-tem'per), v. t. 1. To change tended.-3. The act of spreading or setting re-distillation. Distillation is of great im portance, not only in obtaining spirituous the due proportions or temper of. apart. liquors, but also in procuring essences, essenThe fourthe is, whan thurgh the gret abundance Our legs do labour more in elevation than disten. tial oils, &c. In practical chemistry it is Sir H. It'otten. of his mete, the humours in his body ben distem indispensably necessary.- Destructire distil. pered. Chaucer. Distert (dis-tér), v.t. (L. dis, asunder, and lation. See DESTRUCTIVE. - Dry distillation, 2. To disease; to disorder; to derange the terra, the earth.) To banish from a country. a term applied to the distillation of subfunctions of the body or mind. -- 3. To de (The Jews) were all suddenly disterred and exter. stances per se, or without the addition of prive of temper or moderation; to ruffle; to minated. Howell. water. ---3. The substance extracted by disdisturb. Disterminatet (dis-términ-át), a. (L. dis- tilling terminatur, pp. of distermino, distermina. I suffered the pangs of an egregious death, to be clothes. der, and terminus, a boundary.] Separated Shak. 4. To make disaffected, ill-humoured, or malignant.-5. To disorder the intellect of; by bounds. Bp. Hall. 4. That which falls in drops. Johnson. to intoxicate. Massinger. Disterminationt (dis-ter'min-ā"shon), n. Distillatory (dis-til'a-to-ri), a. Belonging Distemper (dis-tem'per), v.t. (See DISTEM- Separation to distillation, used for distilling; as, distil latory vessels. PER, a kind of paintings To make into dis- Disthene (di'sthen), n. [Gr. dix, two, and 1. An appatemper. “Distempering the colours with sthenos, force.] Kyanite; a mineral so called Distillatory (dis-til'a-to-ri), n. OX-gall.' Petty. by Haüy, on account of its unequal hard ratus used in distillation; a still. -- 2. In her. Distemperancet (dis-tem'pér-ans), n. Dis- ness, and because its crystals have the pro a charge borne by the Distillers' Company, temperature. perty of being electrified both positively and and usually blazoned a distillatory double negatively They (meats) annoy the body in causing distem armed, on a fire, with two worms and bolt receivers. Called also Limbeck, Distiller (dis-til'ér), n. One who distils; one derate. (Rare.] disthronized.' Spenser. whose occupation is to extract spirit by distillation. Aquinas objecteth the distemperate heat, which he Nothing can possibly disthrone them, but that which cast the angels from heaven, and man out of | Distillery (dis-til'è-ri), n. 1. The act or art supposes to be in all places directly under the sun. paradise. Smith of distilling. (Rare. 1-2. The building and 2. + Diseased; disordered. Distich (dis’tik), n. [Gr. distichon, a distich works where distillation is carried on. That which is Thou hast thy brain distemperate and out of rule. di for dis, twice, and stichos, a row, a line Distilment (clis-til'ment), n. Il'ordrophe. of writing, a verse.) A couplet; a couple of drawn by distillation. (Rare.) Distemperature (dis-tem'pér-a-tur), n. verses or poetic lines making complete sense; In the porches of mine ears did pour Skak. The leperous distilment. 1. Bad temperature; intemperateness; excess an epigram of two verses. of heat or cold, or of other qualities; a Distichous, Distich (dis'tik-us, dis'tik), a. Distinct (dis-tingkt'), a. (L. distinctus, pp. noxious state; as, the distemperature of the Having two rows, or disposed in two rows, of distinguo. See DISTINGUISH.) 1. Having climate. * The distemperature of the air.' as the grains in an ear of barley, and the the difference marked; separated or distinAbbot. --2. Violent tumultuousness; outrage- florets in a spikelet of quaking-yrass. Dis- guished by a visible sign, or by a note or ousness.-3. Perturbation of mind. 'Sprink- tichous spike, a spike having all the flowers mark; marked out; specified. Dominion hold led a little patience on the heat of his dis- pointing two ways. Over all things that move on thi' earth, temperature.' Sir W. Scott.-- 4. Confusion; Distil (dis-til'), v. i pret. & pp. distilled; ppr. Wherever thus created, for no place commixture of contrarieties; loss of regu- distilling. (Fr. distiller, from L. destillo, to Is yet distinct by name. Milton tion. DISTINCT 69 DISTRACT 9. Different; separate; not the same in num- Distinctness (dis-tingkt'nes), n. 1. The If writers be just to the memory of Charles II., ber or kind; as, he is known by distinct quality or state of being distinct; a separa they cannot deny him to have been an exact knower titles. tion or difference that prevents confusion of mankind, and a perfect distinguisher of their talents. Dryden. To offend and judge are distinct offices, Shak. of parts or things; as, the distinctness of two 3. Separate in place; not conjunct. ideas or of distant objects. The soul's dis 2. One who discerns accurately the difference tinctness from the body.' Cudworth.—2. Nice of things; a nice or judicious observer. The two armies which marched out together should afterward be distinct, Clarendon. discrimination; hence, clearness; precision; Distinguishing (dis-ting'gwish-ing), a. Con. as, he stated his arguments with great dis stituting difference or distinction from 4. So separated or distinguished as not to be tinctness.-SYN. Plainness, clearness, pre everything else ; peculiar; characteristic. confounded with any other thing; clear; not cision. The distinguishing doctrines of our holy reconfused; as, to reason correctly we must Distinctor (dis-tingktér), n. One who dishave distinct ideas. ligion.' Locke. -Distinguishing pennant, the tinguishes or makes distinctions. Holin special flag of a ship, or a particular penAnd so these twain, upon the skirts of Time, shed. nant hoisted to call attention to signals. Sat side by side, full sumind in all their powers ... Distincture (dis-tingktūr), n. Distinctness. Distinguishingly (dis-ting'gwish-ing-li), Distinct in individualities, adv. Edin, Rev. (Rare.) But like each other ev'n as those who love. With distinction; with some mark of Tennyson. Distingued, t pp. [Fr. distingué.) Distin preference; markedly. Some call me a Tory, because the heads of that party have been distinguishingly favourable to me. His arrows from the fourfold-visag d four, Pope. tinguo, to mark off, to distinguish-di for Distinguishment (dis-ting'gwish-ment), n. Distinct with eyes. Milton. dis, asunder, and stinguo, to mark. See SYN. Separate, different, disjoined, dis Distinction; observation of difference. STIGMA.] 1. To indicate difference by united, well-marked, clear, plain, obvious. some external mark; to set apart as dis And mannerly distinguishment leave out Shak. title.) To deprive of right. See DISTINGUISH.] 1. The act of separating one thing as differing from another by some Distoma (dis'to-ma), n. [Gr. dis, twice, and or distinguishing; separation; division. “The mark or quality; to know or ascertain dif stoma, the mouth.) A genus of trematode distinction of tragedy into acts.' Dryden. ference. (a) By sight; as, to distinguish or suctorial parasitical worms or flukes, Standards and gonfalons one's own children from others by their inhabiting various parts in different aniSureaun in the air, and for distinction serve features. (6) By feeling. A blind man mals. D. hepaticum, or common liver fluke, Of hierarchies, of orders and degrees. Milton. is the best known. It inhabits the galldistinguishes an egg from an orange, but 2. A note or mark of difference; as, the only rarely distinguishes colours. (c) By smell; bladder or duets of the liver in sheep, and distinction between the two is the colour. is the cause of the disease known as the rot. as, it is easy to distinguish the smell of a 3 Distinguishing quality; a separation or peach from that of an apple. (d) By taste; They have also been discovered in man disagreement in kind or qualities, by which as, to distinguish a plum from a pear, (though rarely), the horse, the hog, the one thing is known from another; as, a dis- (e) By hearing; as, to distinguish the sound rabbit, birds, &c. In form it is ovate, flattinction between matter and spirit; a dis- of a drum from that of a violin. (U) By the tened, and presents two suckers(whence the tinction between the animal and vegetable understanding; as, to distinguish vice from name), of which the anterior is perforated kingdoms; a distinction between good and A branched virtue, truth from falsehood.-3. To classify by the aperture of the mouth. evil, right and wrong, between sound rea- or divide by any mark or quality which con water-vascular system is present, and opens soning and sophistry, stitutes difference; to separate by definitions; posteriorly by a small aperture. In D. lan ceolatum the intestine is divided into two If he does really think that there is no distinction as, we distinguish sounds into high and low, between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves soft and harsh, lively and grave; we distin branches, but these are simple tubes, and are our houses, let us count our spoons. not branched. All the animals of this genus Bostvell's Johnson. guish causes into direct and indirect, im- present the strange phenomenon known as 4. Difference regarded; regard to distincally; to judge. alternation of generation. guishing characteristics or circumstances; Distort (dis-tort), v.t. [L. distorqueo, dis Nor more can you distinguish of a man, as in the phrase, without distinction, which Than of his outward show. Shak. tortum, to turn different ways, to twist, to denotes promiscuously, indiscriminately, all distort-dis, asunder, and torqueo, to twist. ] together, alike. 5. To separate from others by some mark of 1. To twist out of natural or regular shape; Maids, women, wives, without distinction, fall. honour or preference; as, Homer and Virgil as, to distort the neck, the limbs, or the Dryden. are distinguished as poets, Demosthenes and body; to distort the features.-2. To force 5. The power of distinguishing in what reCicero as orators.--6. To make eminent or or put out of the true bent or direction; to spect two things differ; discrimination; disknown. bias. cernment; judgment. To distinguish themselves by means never known before. Fohnson. Wrath and malice, envy and revenge distort the She (Nature) left the eye distinction, to cull out understanding. Tillotson. The one froin the other. Bean, & FI. Distinguish (dis-ting'gwish), v. i. 1. To make 3. To wrest from the true meaning; to per6. Eminence; superiority; elevation of rank a distinction; to find or show the difference; vert; as, to distort passages of Scripture, or in society, or elevation of character; honas, it is the province of a judge to distin their meaning.-SYN. To twist, wrest, deourable estimation; as, men who hold a high guish between cases apparently similar, but form, pervert, bend. rank by birth or office, and men who are differing in principle. Distortt (dis-tort'), a. Distorted. eminent for their talents, services, or worth, The reader inust learn by all means to distinguish are called men of distinction, as being raised between proverbs and those polite speeches which Her face was ugly and her mouth distort. beautify conversation. Swift. Spenser above others by positive institutions or by Distorted (dis-tort'ed), p. and a. Twisted reputation. ---7. That which confers or marks 2. + To become distinct or distinguishable; out of natural or regular shape; wrested; eminence or superiority; office, rank, or to become differentiated. perverted. public favour. "Loaded with literary dis- The little embryo, in the natural sheet and lap of The sick inan is distorted grown and changed, tinctions.' Macaulay: -Sex. Division, difits mother, first distinguishes into a little knot, and Fearful to look upon. 5. Baillie. that in time will be the heart, and then into a bigger ference, separation, discernment, discrimi bundle, which, after some days abode, grows into Distorter (dis-tort'ér), n. One who or that nation, rank, note, eminence. two little spots, and they, if cherished by nature, will which distorts. Distinctive (dis-tingkt'iv), a. 1. That marks become eyes. Fer. Taylor. distinction or difference; as, distinctive Distinguishable (dis-ting'gwish-a-bl), a. Distortion (ilis-tor'shon), n. [L. distortio, a distorting, from distorqueo. See DISTORT.] naines or titles. * The distinctive character 1. Capable of being distinguished; that may of the war.' Burke. -2. Having the power 1. The act of distorting; a twisting out of be separated, known, or made known, by regular shape; a twisting or writhing moto distinguish and discern. notes of diversity, or by any difference; cap- tion; as, the distortions of the face or body. Credulous and vulgar auditors readily believe it, able of recognition; as, a tree at a distance 2. The state of being twisted out of shape; and the more judicious and distinctive heads do not is distinguishable from a shrub; a simple deviation from natural shape or position; reject it. Sir T. Browne. idea is not distinguishable into different Distinctively (dis-tingktiv-li), adv. an unnatural direction of parts from whatWith ideas.-2. Worthy of note or special regard. distinction; plainly. ever cause, as a curved spine, a wry mouth, Distinctiveness (dis-tingkt'iv-nes), n. The I would endeavour that my betters should seek me squinting, &c.; crookedness.-3. A perverby the merit of something distinguishable, instead sion of the true meaning of words. state or quality of being distinctive; distinc of my seeking them. Swift. tive character; peculiar or special individu These absurdities are all framed ... by a childish Distinguishableness (dis-ting'gwish-a-blality. distortion of my words. Bp. Wren. nes), n. But the effort to add any other qualities to this Distinguishably (dis-ting'gwish-a-bli), adv. State of being distinguishable. Distortive (dis-tort'iv), a. 1. That distorts; refreshing one instantly takes away the distinctive. causing distortions. Quar. Rev.-2. Having ness, and therefore the exact character to be enjoyed So as to be distinguished. distortions; distorted. in its appeal to a particular huinour in us. Ruskin. Distinguished (dis-ting'gwisht), p. and a. Distortor (dis-tort'or), n. (L.L.) One who Distinctly (dis-tingktli), adv. 1. With dis- 1. Separated or known by a mark of differ or that which distorts. -- Distortor oris, in tinctness; not confusedly; without the blend- ence or by different qualities. -2. Separated ing of one part or thing with another; as, a from others by superior or extraordinary anat, a name given to one of the zygomatic muscles, from its distorting the mouth, as proposition distinctly understood; a figure qualities; whence, eminent; extraordinary; distinctly defined. Hence-2. Clearly; plain in rage, grinning, &c. transcendent; noted; famous; celebrated; ly. The object I could first distinctly view.' as, we admire distinguished 'men, distin: Distourble, t v. t. (Fr.) To disturb. Dryden.-3. Separately; in different places. guished talents or virtues, and distinguished Muche they distourhled me, For sore I drad to harmed be. Chaucer. services. --Syn. Marked, noted, famous, conSometimes I'd divide And burn in many places; on the topmast, spicuous, celebrated, transcendent, eminent, Distract (dis-trakt), v.t. [L. distraho, disThe yards and bowsprit would I flame distinctly. illustrious. tractum, to drag or pull asunder, to perplex Shak, Distinguishedly (dis-tinggwisht-li), adv. -dis, asunder, and truho, to draw; whence 4. + With meaning; intelligibly; signifi- In a distinguished manner; eminently. tractable, trace, &c. The old participle discantly. Swift. traught is obsolete as a part of the verb. Thou dost snore distinctly; there's meaning in thy Distinguisher (dis-ting'gwish-ér), n. 1. He See DISTRAUGHT.] 1. To draw apart; to pull snores. Shak. who or that which distinguishes, or that in different directions, and separate; hence, SIN. Clearly, explicitly, definitely, precisely, separates one thing from another by marks to divide; to separate; and hence, to throw plainly, obviously. of diversity into confusion. 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