DISINTERESTED gage from private interest or personal advantage. A noble courtesy. . . disinterests man of himself. Feltham. Disinterested (dis-in'tér-est-ed), a. 1. Uninterested; indifferent; free from self-interest; having no personal interest or private advantage in a question or affair. Whately. Every true patriot is disinterested. 2. Not influenced or dictated by private ad'A vantage; as, a disinterested decision. pure tribute of disinterested reverence for extraordinary virtue.' Thirlwall.-SYN. Unbiased, impartial, uninterested, indifferent, generous, unselfish, magnanimous. Disinterestedly (dis-in'tér-est-ed-li), adv. In a disinterested manner. Disinterestedness (dis-in'tèr-est-ed-nes), n. The state or quality of having no personal interest or private advantage in a question or event; freedom from bias or prejudice, on account of private interest; unselfishness; generosity. That perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which man seems to be incapable, but which is sometimes found in woman. Macaulay. Disinterestingt (dis-in'tèr-est-ing), a. Uninteresting. Long quotations of disinteresting passages.' Warburton. Disinterment (dis-in-tér'ment), n. The act of disinterring or taking out of the earth or the grave; exhumation. Disinthrall (dis-in-thral), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv., and inthrall.] To disenthrall (which see). Disinthralment (dis-in-thral'ment), n. Disenthralment (which see). Disintricate (dis-in'tri-kát), v. t. [Prefix dis, priv., and intricate.] To free from intricacy; to disentangle. It is therefore necessary to disintricate the question, by relieving it of these two errors, bad in themselves, but worse in the confusion which they occasion. Sir W. Hamilton. Disinure (dis-in-ür'), v. t. [Prefix dis, priv., and inure.] To deprive of familiarity or custom; to render unfamiliar or unaccustomed. Milton. [Pre Disinvalidity (dis-in-va-lid'i-ti), n. fix dis, intens., and invalidity.] Invalidity. Mountagu. Disinvestiture (dis-in-vest'i-tur), n. [Prefix dis, priv., and investiture.] The act of depriving of investiture. Disinvitet (dis-in-vit'), v. t. [Prefix dis, priv., and invite.] To recall an invitation. Disinvolve (dis-in-volv), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv., and involve.] To uncover; to unfold or unroll; to disentangle. Disjaskit (dis-jas'kit), p. and a. [A corruption of O.E. and Sc. disjected, Mod. E. dejected.] Jaded; decayed; worn out. [Scotch.] In the morning after the coronation I found myself in a very disjaskit state, being both sore in lith and limb, and worn out in my mind with the great fatigue I had undergone. Galt. Disjection (dis-jek'shon), n. [L. disjicio, disjectum, to throw asunder, to scatter, from dis, asunder, and jacio, to throw.] Act of overthrowing or dissipating. The sudden disjection of Pharaoh's host. Bp. Horsley. Disjoin (dis-join'), v. t. [Prefix dis, neg., and join.] To part; to disunite; to separate; to sunder. That inarriage, therefore, God himself disjoins. Milton. SYN. To disunite, separate, sever, detach, dissever, sunder. Disjoin (dis-join'), v.i. To be separated; to part. Disjoint (dis-joint'), v.t. [Prefix dis, neg., and joint.] 1. To separate the joints of; to separate, as parts united by joints; to put out of joint; to force out of its socket; to dislocate; as, to disjoint the limbs; to disjoint bones; to disjoint a fowl in carving. 2. To separate at junctures; to break at the part where things are united; to break in pieces; as, disjointed columns; to disjoint an edifice; the disjointed parts of a ship. 3. To break the natural order and relations of; to put out of order; to derange. Were it possible for any power to add to it ever so little, it would at once overstep its bounds; the equilibrium would be disturbed; the framework of affairs would be disjointed. Buckle. Disjoint (dis-joint'), v. i. To fall in pieces. But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer, Shak Ere we will eat our meal in fear. Disjoint (dis-joint'), a. Disjointed. 'Disjoint and out of frame." Shak Disjoint (dis-joint'), n. A difficult situa tion. But sith I see I stand in swiche disjoint, I wol answere you shortly to the point. Chaucer. Disjointed (dis-joint'ed), a. 1. Unconnected; incoherent; as, a disjointed discourse. The constancy of your wit was not wont to bring forth such disjointed speeches. Sir P. Sidney. 2. Out of joint; out of order or sorts; illjoined together. Melancholy books Which make you laugh that any one should weep In this disjointed life, for one wrong move. E. B. Browning. Disjointedness (dis-joint'ed-nes), n. of being disjointed. Disjointly (dis-joint'li), adv. In a divided state. State Disjudication † (dis-jū'di-kā"shon), n. [See DIJUDICATE.] Judgment; determination. Disjunct (dis-jungkt'), a. [L. disjunctus, pp. of disjungo-dis, and jungo, to join.] 1. Disjoined; separated. Glanville.-2. In entom. a term applied to an insect whose head, thorax, and abdomen are separated by a deep incision.-Disjunct tetrachords, in music, tetrachords having such a relation to each other that the lowest interval of the upper is one note above the highest interval of the other. Disjunction (dis-jungk'shon), n. [L. disjunctio.] 1. The act of disjoining; disunion; separation; a parting. The disjunction of the body and the soul.' South.-2. In logic, a disjunctive proposition. [Rare.] One side or other of the following disjunction is true. Paley. Disjunctive (dis-jungk'tiv), a. 1. Tending to disjoin; separating; disjoining. 2. Incapable of union. [Rare.] Atoms of that disjunctive nature as not to be united in a sufficient number to make a visible mass. Grew. 3. In gram. marking separation or opposition; a term applied to a word or particle which unites sentences or the parts of discourse in construction, but disjoins the sense; as, I love him, or I fear him; I neither love him nor fear him.-4. In logic, a term applied to a proposition in which the parts are opposed to each other by means of disjunctives; as, it is either day or night; a term applied to a syllogism in which the major proposition is disjunctive; as, the earth moves in a circle or an ellipsis; but it does not move in a circle, therefore it moves in an ellipsis.-5. In music, pertaining to disjunct tetrachords; as, a disjunctive interval. Disjunctive (dis-jungk'tiv), n. 1. In gram. a word that disjoins, as or, nor, neither.2. In logic, a disjunctive proposition. Disjunctively (dis-jungk'tiv-li), adv. In a disjunctive manner; separately. Disjuncture (dis-jungk'tür), n. 1. The act of disjointing or separating joints; the act of putting out of joint; dislocation. Bruises, disjunctures, and brokenness of bones." Goodwin.-2. Separation; disunion. Wotton. Disjune, Dejune (dis-jön', de-jon'), n. [See DEJEUNER.] Breakfast. [Scotch.] Did I not tell you, Mysie, that it was my especial pleasure on this occasion to have everything in the precise order wherein it was upon that famous morn. ing when his most sacred Majesty partook of his disjune at Tillietudlem. Sir W. Scott. Disk, n See DISC. Diskindness (dis kind'nes), n. [Prefix dis, priv., and kindness.] 1. Want of kindness; unkindness; want of affection.-2. Ill turn; injury; detriment. [Rare.] The discourse is so far from doing any diskindness to the cause, that it does it a real service. Woodward. Disladet (dis-lad'), v. t. [Prefix dis, priv., and Disleall knight, whose coward corage chose Dislikable (dis-lik ́a-bl), a. Worthy of being disliked; displeasing; distasteful. One dislikes to see a man and poet reduced to proclaim on the streets such tidings; but, on the whole, as matters go, that is not the most dislikable. Carlyle. Dislike (dis-lik), n. [Prefix dis, priv., and like.] 1. Disapprobation; disinclination; displeasure; aversion; a moderate degree of hatred. Of their doings great dislike declared.' Milton. You discover not only your dislike of another, but Addison. of himself. Our likings and dislikes are founded rather upon humour and fancy than upon reason. L'Estrange. 2. Discord; disagreement. DISLODGMENT A murmur rose That showed dislike among the Christian peers. Fairfax SYN. Disapprobation, disinclination, displeasure, disrelish, dist ste, aversion, antipathy, repugnance, disgust. Dislike (dis-lik'), v.t. pret. & pp. disliked; ppr. disliking. 1. To disapprove of; to regard with some aversion or displeasure; to disrelish; as, we dislike proceedings which we deem wrong; we dislike persons of evil habits; we dislike whatever gives us pain; we dislike certain dishes.-2. To displease. 'I'll do't; but it dislikes me.' Shak.-3.1 To express disapprobation of. 'I never heard any soldier dislike it.' Shak. Dislikeful + (dis-lik'ful), a. Full of dislike; disaffected; disagreeable. Dislikeful paine Spenser. Dislikelihood (dis-likʼli-hud), n. (Prefix dis neg., and likelihood.] Want of likelihood; improbability. Sir W. Scott. Disliken (dis-lik'n), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv., and liken.] To make unlike; to disguise [Rare.] Muffle your face, Shak Dislikeness (dis-lik'nes), n. [Prefix dis priv., and likeness.] Unlikeness; want of resemblance; dissimilitude. Locke. Disliker (dis-lik'èr), n. One who disapproves or disrelishes. Dislimb (dis-lim), v. t. [Prefix dis, priv., and limb.] To tear the limbs from. Dislimnt (dis-lim'), v. t. [Prefix dis, priv., and limn.] To strike out of a picture; to obliterate; to efface; to disfigure. That which is now a horse, even with a thought. The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct. Shak. Dislink (dis-lingk), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv., and link] To unlink; to disjoin; to separate. There a group of girls In circle waited, whom the electric shock Dislivet (dis-liv'), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv., and Dislocation (dis-lo-kä'shon), n. 1. The act of moving from its proper place; particularly, the act of removing or forcing a bone from its socket; luxation. When dislocation takes place as the result of violence it is called primitive or accidental; and when it happens as a consequence of disease, which has destroyed the textures forming the joint, it is called consecutive or sponA simple dislocation is one unattended by a wound communicating internally with the joint and externally with the air; and a compound dislocation is one which is attended by such a wound. --2. The state of being displaced, or of being out of joint; disorder or derangement of parts. Neither battle I see, nor arraying, nor king in Israel; Only infinite jumble and mess and dislocation. taneous. Clough 3. In geol. the displacement of parts of rocks, or portions of strata, from the situations which they originally occupied: usually ap plied to faults (which see). Dislodge (dis-loj), v. t. pret. & pp. dislodged; ppr. dislodging. (Prefix dis, priv., and lodge.] 1. To remove or drive from a lodge or place of rest; to drive from the place where a thing naturally rests or inhabits. The shell-fish which are resident in the depths, live and die there, and are never dislodged or removed by storms, nor cast upon the shore. Woodward 2. To drive from any place of hiding or defence, or from any station; as, to dislodge the enemy from their quarters, from a hill or wall-3. To remove to other quarters, as an army. The Volscians are dislodged, and Marcius gone. Shak Dislodge (dis-loj), v.i. To go from a place of rest. Though there is no violence used to drive out an inhabitant, yet bad accommodations will make him disicage. South Dislodgment (dis-loj'ment), n. The act of DISLOGISTIC ishdging, or state of being dislodged; displacement, removal. Dislogistic (dis-lo-jis tik), a. Erroneous 3iling of dyslogistic (which see). Disioign (dis loin'), .t. (Prefix dis, asunder and Fr cloigner, to remove.] To remove to a distance. Line loking dales, dislorgu'd from common gaze. Spenser. Disloyal (dis-loi'al), a. [Prefix dis, neg., anil] 1. Not true to allegiance; false to a sovereign, faithless; as, a disloyal sub2 False: perfidious; treacherous. A Jext faise duloyal knave.' Shak. 3. Not true to the marriage bed, false in love. 'The lady is disloyal Shak -4. Not constant. 'Disloyal love Spenser. SYN. Faithless, false, treacherous, perfidious, dishonest, incon stant Disloyally (dis-loi'al-li), adv. In a disloyal manner, with violation of faith or duty to a sverein; faithlessly; perfidiously. Disloyalty (dis-loi'al-ti), n. 1. Want of elity to a sovereign; violation of allegiance or duty to a prince or sovereign authority. 2 Want of fidelity in love. Disloyalty to the king's bed Spectator. Dismail, Dismaylt (dis-mal'), v.t. (Prefix dis priv, and mail.] To divest of a coat of mail, to cleave off a coat of mail. Their mightie strokes their haberjeons dismayld, Ai naked made each others manly spalles. Spenser. Dismal (diz'mal), a. [Etym. doubtful. According to one derivation, from L. dies malus, an evil day; according to another, from dimmel, diminutive of dim. Wedg wood connects it with the root of dizzy, and refers to the Swiss duxem, dark, thick, misty, downhearted; Bavarian dusmig, dull, still, cloudy. Ed Muller is inclined to connect it with dismay (which see)] 1. Dark; gloomy; ne, a dumal shade. -2. Cheerless; depressing, gloomy. This festral, on which honest George spent a great deal of money, was the very dismallest of all the entertainments which Amelia had in her honeymoon. Thackeray. 3. Sorrowful; dire; horrid; melancholy; calamitous, unfortunate; as, a dismal accident; dismal effects. Full well the busy whisper, circling round, Would at a dismal treatise rouse, and stir, Shak. SYN Dreary, gloomy, dark, doleful, horrid, That she, that even bat now was your best object, Shak 3 More generally, to deprive or strip of apparatus, furniture, equipments, fortifications, and the like; to unrig; as, to dismantle a ship, to dismantle a fortress; to damantle a town. 4. To break down; to make useless, to destroy. His nose da, mantled in his mouth is found. Dryden Dismarry (dis-maʼri), v. t. To remove the bonds of marriage from; to divorce. Dismarshal (dis-mar'shal), r.t. [Prefix dis, prv, and marshal.] To derange; to disorder (Rare] Dismask (dis-mask), et. [Prefix dis, priv., and mask To strip off a mask; to uncover; to remove that which conceals; to unmask. Shak Dismast (dis-mast), vt. [Prefix dis, priv., and mast. To deprive of a mast or masts; to break and carry away the masts from; as, a storm disinasted the ship. Dismastment (dis-mast'ment), n. The act of dismasting; the state of being dismasted. Rare) Dismaw (dis-ma), v.t. To disgorge from the maw Now Mistress Rodriquez, you may unrip yourself 57 and dismaw all that you have in your troubled heart Skelton. and grieved entrails. Dismay (dis-ma'), v. t. [Prefix dis, priv., and Goth. magan, to be able, to be strong, to prevail=A. Sax. magan, to be able, E. may, the word having passed from the Teutonic to the Romance languages and thence into English. Comp. O. Fr. esmaier, to discourage, Sp. and Pg. desmayar, to fall into a swoon, &c. See AMAY.] 1. To deprive of that strength or firmness of mind which constitutes courage; to discourage; to dishearten; to sink or depress in spirits or resolution; hence, to affright or terrify. Be strong, and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed. Josh. i. 9. 2. To subdue; to defeat. When the bold Centaures made that bloody fray With the fierce Lapithes which did them dismay. Spenser. 3. To disquiet. He showed himself to be dismay'd, More for the love which he had left behind. Spenser. SYN. To terrify, fright, affright, frighten, appal, daunt, dishearten, dispirit, discourage, deject, depress. Dismay (dis-ma), vi. To be daunted; to stand aghast with fear; to be confounded with terror. Like as a ship, whom cruell tempest drives Upon a rocke with horrible dismay. Spenser. SYN. Dejection, discouragement, depression, fear, fright, terror. Dismayd (dis-mad), a. [Prefix dismis, and made.] Ugly; ill-shaped. Whose hideous shapes were like to feendes of hell, Some like to houndes, some like to apes, dismayd. Spenser. Dismayedness t (dis-mad'nes), n. A state of being dismayed; dejection of courage; dispiritedness. The valiantest feels inward dismayedness, and yet the fearfullest is ashamed fully to show it. Sir P. Sidney. Dismayful+ (dis-ma'ful), a. Full of dismay; causing dismay. Spenser. Disme (dēm), n. [0. Fr. See DIME.] 1. A tenth part; a tithe.-2. The number ten. Every tithe soul, 'mongst many thousand dismes, Shak. Dismember (dis-mem'ber), v. t. [Prefix dis, priv., and member.] 1. To divide limb from limb; to separate the members of; to tear or cut in pieces; to dilacerate; to mutilate. Fowls obscene dismembered his remains. Pope. 2. To strip of its members or constituent parts; to sever and distribute the parts of; to separate from the main body; to divide; as, to dismember a kingdom. The only question was, by whose hands the blow should be struck which would dismember that mighty empire (Spain). Buckle. The chátenie of Arth, which France had dismem bered. Sir W. Temple. SYN. To disjoint, dislocate, dilacerate, mutilate, divide, sever. Dismembered (dis-mem'bèrd), p. and a. 1. Divided member from member; torn or cut in pieces; divided by the separation of a part from the main body.--2. In her. a term applied to birds that have neither feet nor legs; and also to lions and other animals whose members are separated. Dismemberment (dis-mem bér-ment), 2. The act of dismembering, or state of being dismembered; the act of tearing or cutting in pieces; mutilation; the act of severing a part from the main body; division; separation. The Castilians would doubtless have resented the dismemberment of the unwieldy body of which they were the head. Macaulay. Dismettled (dis-met'tld), a. [Prefix dis, priv., and mettled.] Destitute of fire or spirit. Llewellen. [Rare or obsolete.] Dismiss (dis-mis), v.t. [L. dimitto (for dismitto), dimissum-di for dis, priv., and mitto, to send.] 1. To send away; to give leave of departure; to permit to depart; implying authority in a person to retain or keep. He (the town-clerk) dismissed the assembly. Acts xix. 41. DISOBEDIENT With thanks and pardon to you all, I do dismiss you to your several countries. Shak. 2. To discard; to remove from office, service, or employment; as, the king dismisses his ministers; the master dismisses his servant. Dismiss me, and I prophesy your plan, Divorced from my experience, will be chaff To every gust of chance. Tennyson.. 3. In law, to remove from a docket; to discontinue; to reject as unworthy of notice, or of being granted; as, to dismiss a bill in chancery; to dismiss a petition or a motion in a court. Dismisst (dis-mis'), n. Discharge; dismission. 'Grief for their dismiss.' Sir T. Herbert. Dismissal (dis-mis'al), n. 1. Dismission; discharge. All those wronged and wretched creatures, And the monk replied 'Amen!' Longfellow. Dismission (dis-mi'shon), n. [L. dimissio.] 1. The act of sending away; leave to depart; as, the dismission of the grand jury.-2. Removal from office or employment; discharge, either with honour or disgrace.-3. An act requiring departure; an order to leave any post or place. You must not stay here longer, your dismission 4. In law, removal of a suit in equity; rejection of something as unworthy of notice or of being granted. Dismissivet (dis-mis'iv), a. Giving dismission. 'The dismissive writing.' Milton. Dismortgage (dis-mor'gāj), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv., and mortgage.] To redeem from mortgage. He dismortgaged the crown demesnes, and left Howell. behind him a great mass of gold. Dismount (dis-mount'), v.i. [Prefix dis, priv., and mount; Fr. démonter.] 1. To alight from a horse; to descend or get off, as a rider from a beast; as, the officer ordered his troops to dismount.-2. To descend from an elevation; to come or go down. Now the bright sun gynneth to dismount. Spenser, Dismount (dis-mount'), v.t. 1. To throw or remove from a horse; to unhorse; as, the soldier dismounted his adversary.-2. To throw or bring down from any elevation, place, or post of authority, and the like. Samuel... ungratefully and injuriously dismounted from his authority. Barrow. [Rare or obsolete.]-3. To throw or remove, as cannon or other artillery from their carriages; to break the carriages or wheels of, as guns; to shatter, as the parapet of an entrenchment or of a wall by cannon-balls, so that it cannot be defended.-4. To draw from a scabbard. 'Dismount thy tuck' (i.e. rapier). Shak.-Dismounting batteries (milit.), batteries intended to throw down the parapets of fortifications and disable the enemy's cannons. Disnaturalize (dis-na'tūr-al-iz), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv., and naturalize.] To make alien; to deprive of the privileges of birth. Disnatured (dis-ná'tūrd), a. Deprived or destitute of natural feelings; unnatural. The king Remembered his departure, and he felt Feelings, which long from his disnatured breast Ambition had expelled. Southey. Disnest (dis-nest'), v. t. [Prefix dis, priv., and nest.] To dislodge, as from a nest. Dryden. Disobedience (dis-o-be'di-ens), n. [Prefix dis, neg., and obedience.] 1. Neglect or refusal to obey; violation of a command or prohibition; the omission of that which is commanded to be done, or the doing of that which is forbid; breach of duty prescribed by authority. Thou, Posthumus, thou that didst set up My disobedience 'gainst the king my father. Shak. By one man's disobedience many were made sinners. Rom. v. 19. 2. Non-compliance, or the want of compliance, as with a natural law or some exterior influence. "This disobedience of the moon." Blackmore. Disobediency (dis-o-be'di-en-si), n. Disobedience. Taylor. Disobedient (dis-ō-be'di-ent), a. 1. Neglecting or refusing to obey; omitting to do what is commanded, or doing what is prohibited; refractory; not observant of duty or rules prescribed by authority; as, children disobedient to parents; citizens disobedient to the laws. I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision. Acts xxvi. 19. DISOBEDIENTLY 2. Not yielding to exciting force or power; uninfluenced, or not to be influenced. Medicines used unnecessarily contribute to shorten life, by sooner rendering peculiar parts of the system disobedient to stimuli. Dr. E. Darwin. Disobediently (dis-ō-be'di-ent-li), adv. In a disobedient manner. Disobeisant, ta. [Fr.] Disobedient. Chaucer. Disobey (dis-o-ba'), v.t. [Prefix dis, neg., and obey] To neglect or refuse to obey; to omit or refuse obedience to; to transgress or violate an order or injunction; to refuse submission to; as, refractory children disobey their parents; men disobey their Maker and the laws. I needs must disobey him for his good; How should I dare obey him to his harm? Tennyson. Disobey (dis-o-bā'), v. i. To refuse obedience; to disregard orders. He durst not know how to disobey. Sir P. Sidney. Disobeyer (dis-ō-bā'èr), n. One who disobeys. Disobligation (dis-ob'li-gā"shon), n. [From disoblige. ] The act of disobliging; an offence; cause of disgust. It would be such a disobligation to the prince that he would never forget it. Clarendon. Disobligation (dis-ob'li-gā"shon), n. [Prefix dis, priv., and obligation.] Freedom from obligation. The conscience is restored to liberty and disobligation.' Jer. Taylor. Disobligatory (dis-ob'li-ga-to-ri), a. Releasing obligation. Disoblige (dis-ō-blij'), v.t. [Prefix dis, neg., and oblige.] To do an act which contravenes the will or desires of another; to offend by an act of unkindness or incivility; to injure in a slight degree; to be unaccommodating to. My plan has given offence to some gentlemen, whom it would not be very safe to disoblige. Addison. Disobliget (dis-ō-blij'), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv., and oblige.] To release from obligation. The unkindness of a brother can wholly rescind that relation, or disoblige us from the duties annexed thereto. Barrow. Disobligement (dis-ō-blij'ment), n. The act of disobliging. Milton. Disobliger (dis-ō-blij'èr), n. One who disobliges. Disobliging (dis-ō-blij'ing), a. Not obliging; not disposed to gratify the wishes of another; not disposed to please; unkind; offensive; unpleasing; unaccommodating; as, a disobliging coachman. Disobligingly (dis-ō-blij'ing-li), adv. In a disobliging manner; offensively. Disobligingness (dis-o-blij'ing-nes), n. Offensiveness; disposition to displease, or want of readiness to please. Disoccident (dis-ok'si-dent), v t. dis, priv., and occident.] To throw out of reckoning; to confuse as to longitude. Disoccidented our geographer.' Marvell. See DISORIENT. [Prefix Disoccupation (dis-ok'ku-pā"shon), n. [Prefix dis, neg., and occupation.] Want of occupation. [Rare.] Disomatous (di-so'ma-tus), a. [Gr. di for dis, twice, and soma, body.] Two-bodied; specifically, applied to any monster consisting of two bodies united, as the Siamese twins. Disopinion (dis-o-pin'i-on), n. Difference of opinion; want of belief. [Rare.] Assenting and dissenting thoughts, belief and disopinion. Bp. Reynolds. Disorbed (dis-orbd'), a. [Prefix dis, priv., and orb.] Thrown out of the proper orbit. A star disorbed.' Shak. Disordeined, pp. [Fr.] Disorderly. Chaucer. Disorder (dis-order), n. [Prefix dis, neg., and order; Fr. désordre.] 1. Want of order or regular disposition; irregularity; immethodical distribution; confusion: a word of general application; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in disorder.-2. Tumult; disturbance of the peace of society; as, the city is sometimes troubled with the disorders of its citizens. You have displaced the mirth, broke the good meeting With most admir'd disorder. 3. Neglect of rule; irregularity. Shak. From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art. Pope. 4. Breach of laws; violation of standing rules or institutions.--5. Irregularity, disturbance, or interruption of the functions of the animal economy or of the mind; disease; distemper; sickness; derangement. 6. Discomposure of the mind; turbulence of passions. 58 I will not keep this form upon my head, When there is such disorder in my wit. Shak. SYN. Irregularity, disarrangement, confusion, tumult, bustle, disturbance, illness, indisposition, sickness, malady, distemper, disease. Disorder (dis-or'dêr), v.t. 1. To break the order of; to derange; to disturb the regular disposition or arrangement of; to put out of method; to throw into confusion; to confuse: applicable to everything susceptible of order. The incursions of the Goths and other barbarous nations disordered the affairs of the Roman Empire. Arbuthnot. 2. To disturb or interrupt the natural functions of, as the animal economy; to produce sickness or indisposition in; to disturb the regular operations of, as reason or judg ment; to derange; as, the man's reason is disordered. 'A man whose judgment was so much disordered by party spirit.' Macaulay.-3. To discompose or disturb, as the mind; to ruffle. 'Disordered into a wanton frame.' Barrow.-4.† To depose from holy orders. Let him be stripped and disordered, I would fain see him walk in querpo, that the world may behold the inside of a friar. Dryden. SYN. To disarrange, derange, confuse, discompose, disturb, ruffle. Disordered (dis-or'dèrd), a. 1. Disorderly; irregular; vicious; loose; unrestrained in behaviour. 'Men so disordered, so debauched and bold.' Shak.-2. Deranged; out of order; as, a disordered stomach. Disorderedness (dis-or'dêrd-nes), n. A state of disorder or irregularity; confusion. Disorderliness (dis-or'dèr-li-nes), n. State of being disorderly. Disorderly (dis-order-li), a. 1. Being without proper order or disposition; confused; immethodical; irregular; as, the books and papers are in a disorderly state. His forces seemed no army, but a crowd, Heartless, unarmed, disorderly, and loud. Cowley. 2. Tumultuous; irregular; turbulent; rebellious. DISPARAGEMENT to interrupt regular order or system; one who introduces disorder and confusion. Disorient (dis-o'ri-ent), v. t. [Prefix dis, priv., and orient.] To throw out of reckoning; to confuse as to longitude. [Rare.] I doubt then the learned professor was a little dis oriented when he called the promises in Ezekiel and in the Revelations the same. Bp. Warburton. Disorientated+ (dis-o'ri-ent-at-ed), p. and a. Turned from the east or the right direction; thrown out of one's reckoning. Disown (dis-on'), v.t. [Prefix dis, neg., and own.] 1. To refuse to acknowledge as belonging to one's self; to deny; not to own; to repudiate; as, a parent can hardly disown his child; an author will sometimes disown his writings.-2. To deny; not to allow; to refuse to admit. Then they, who brother's better claim disown, Expel their parents, and usurp the throne. Dryden. SYN. To disavow, disclaim, deny, renounce, disallow. Disownment (dis-ōn'ment), n. Act of disowning; repudiation. J. J. Gurney. [Rare ] Disoxidate (dis-oks'id-at), v.t. pret. and pp. disoxidated; ppr. disoxidating. [Prefix dis, priv., and oxidate.] To reduce from oxidation; to reduce from the state of an oxide by disengaging oxygen from a substance, to deoxidate; as, to disoxidate iron or copper. Disoxidation (dis-oks'id-a"shon), n. The act or process of freeing from oxygen and reducing from the state of an oxide; deoxidation. Disoxygenate (dis-oks'i-jen-at), v. t. [Prefix dis, priv., and oxygenate.] To deprive of If we subdue our unruly and disorderly passions Dispair (dis-pār'), v.t. [Prefix dis, neg., and pair.] To separate: said of a pair or couple. [Rare.] within ourselves, we should live more easily and quietly with others. Stilling fleet. 3. Lawless; contrary to law; violating or disposed to violate law and good order; violating the restraints of morality; of bad repute; as, disorderly people; drunk and disorderly.-4. Not regulated by moral restraints; not conducted according to the precepts of morality; disreputable; as, a disorderly house.-5. Inclined to break loose from restraint, unruly; as, disorderly cattle. 6. Not acting in an orderly or regular way, as the functions of the body.-SYN. Irregular, immethodical, confused, tumultuous, inordinate, intemperate, unruly, lawless, vicious, loose. Disorderly (dis-or'dér-li), adv. 1. Without order, rule, or method; irregularly; confusedly; in a disorderly manner. Savages fighting disorderly with stones. Raleigh. 2. In a manner violating law and good order; in a manner contrary to rules or established institutions. Withdraw yourselves from every brother that walk. eth disorderly. 2 Thes. iii. 6. Disordinatet (dis-ordin-at), a. [Prefix dis, priv., and ordinate.] Disorderly; living irregularly. These not disordinate, yet causeless suffer The punishment of dissolute days. Milton. Disordinately (dis-or'din-at-li), adv. Inordinately; irregularly; viciously. Disordination (dis-or'din-ä"shon), n. Disarrangement. Disordinaunce, tn. Chaucer. [Fr] Irregularity. Disorganization (dis-or'gan-iz-a"shon), n. [See DISORGANIZE] 1. The act of disorganizing; the act of destroying organic structure or connected system; the act of destroying order.-2. The state of being disorganized; as, the disorganization of gov ernment, or of society, or of an army. Disorganize (dis-or'gan-iz), v.t. [Prefix dis, neg., and organize.] To break or destroy organic structure or connected system; to dissolve regular system or union of parts; to throw into confusion or disorder; as, to disorganize a government or society; to disorganize an army. Every account of the settlement of Plymouth men. tions the conduct of Lyford, who attempted to disorganize the church. Eliot's Biog. Dict. Disorganizer (dis-orʼgan-iz-ér), n. One who disorganizes; one who destroys or attempts Forgive me, lady, I have... dispair'd two doves. Beau. & Fl Dispandt (dis-pand), vt. [L. dispando, to Thou durst not thus disparage glorious arms. 4. To bring reproach on; to lower the estimation or worth of; to debase; to dishonour. 'With fear disparaged.' Spenser, His religion sat.. gracefully upon him, w hout any of those forbidding appearances which sometures disparage the actions of inen sincerely pious. Bp Atterboy SYN. To depreciate, undervalue, vilify, reproach, detract from, derogate from, decry, degrade. Disparaget (dis-pa-raj'), n. [Fr.] A disparagement; an unequal marriage. To match so high, her friends with counsell sage, Dissuaded her from such a disparage. Spenser. Disparagement (dis-pa'raj-ment), n. 1 The matching of a man or woman to one of inferior rank or condition, and against the rules of decency. And thought that match a foul disparagement. Spenser 2. Injury by union or comparison with something of inferior excellence.--3. The act of undervaluing or lowering the estimation or character of a person or thing; the act of depreciating; detraction. DISPARAGER Held the popular praises of the king, With sient smijes of slow disparagement. Diminution of value or excellence; re Tennyson. Dispassionately (dis-pa'shon-at-li), adv. Without passion; calmly; coolly. Dispassioned (dis-pa'shond), a. Free from passion. per sach, disgrace, indignity; dishonour: fol- Dispatch (dis-pach'). For this word, as well as its derivatives and compounds, see DES lawed by to Ith to be no disparagement to a star that it is South The prerogatives of the sovereign were extensive. It wa panagement to the bravest and med mest koghts to kneel at his feet. Macaulay. SYN Derogation, detraction, reproach, dishonour, debasement, degradation, disgrace. Disparager (dis-pa'raj-ér), n. One who disparages or dishonours; one who vilifies or dis races Disparagingly (dis-pa'raj-ing-li), adv. In a manner to disparage or dishonour. Disparate (dis pa-rat), a. (L. disparatus, pp of disparo, to part, separate-dis, asunder, and paro, to make ready, to prepare.] 1. Unequal, unlike; dissimilar. Contesting dupinate thoughts, purely by means of resemblance in the words expressing them. Coleridge. In logic, pertaining to two co-ordinate species or divisions Disparate (dis'pa-rát), n. One of two or more things so unequal or unlike that they cannot be compared with each other. Disparition (dis-pa-ri'shon), n. [Contr. for dapparition--prefix dis, priv., and appariton See APPARITION.] Disappearance. In the disparition of that other light, there is a per, et vdy haed star, shining in the writings of the prophets Bp. Hall. Disparity (dis pa'ri-ti), n. [Fr. disparité, from L dispar, unequal-dis, and par, equal.] 1 Inequality; difference in degree, in age, rank, condition, or excellence: followed by in or of; as, disparity in or of years, age, circumstances, condition-2. Dissimilitude; unlikeness: followed by between, betwixt. Just such disparity As is 'twixt air and angels' purity. STN Inequality, unlikeness, dissimilitude, disproportion. Dispark (dis-park), vt. [Prefix dis, priv., and park ] 1. To throw open, as a park; to lay open, to divest of the character of a park, as land. You have fed upon my signories, Dupark'd my parks, and fell'd my forest woods, Shak. 2. To set at large; to release from inclosure or confinement. He disparks his seraglio.' Sir T Herbert. Disparklet (dis-parkl), v. t. [Prefix, dis, asunder, and sparkle, in the sense of to scatter.] To scatter abroad; to disperse; to divide. The sect of Libertines began but lately; but as vipers soce chaltig ly into generations, so is their spawn dis partied over all lands. Clarke. Dispart (dis-part), vt. [Prefix dis, asunder, and part) To divide into parts; to separate; to sever, to burst; to rend; to rive or split; to distract; as, disparted air; disparted towers, disparted chaos. When all three kinds of love together meet, And doe dupart the hart with power extreme. Spenser. Dispart (dis-part), ri To separate; to open to cleave. The silver clouds disparted Shelley Dispart (dis'part), n. In gun. (a) the difference between the semi-diameter of the base ring at the breech of a gun, and that of the ring at the swell of the muzzle. (b) A dispart-sight Dispart (dis-part), v.t. In gun. (a) to set a mark on the muzzle-ring of a piece of ordnance, so that a sight-line from the top of the base-ring to the mark on or near the muzzle may be parallel to the axis of the hore or hollow cylinder. (b) To make allowance for the dispart in, when taking aim. Every gunner, before he shoots, must truly dispart Dispart-sight (dis'pärt-sit), n. In gun. a piece of metal cast on the muzzle of a piece of ordnance to make the line of sight parallel to the axis of the bore. Dispassion (dis pa'shon), n. [Prefix dis, priv and passion] Freedom from passion; an undisturbed state of the mind; apathy. Dispassionate (dis-pa'shon-åt), a. 1. Free from passion, calm; composed; impartial; unmoved by feelings: applied to persons; as, dispassionate men or judges. dipassionate, and cold.' Tennyson-2. Not dictated by passion, not proceeding from temper or bias, impartial: applied to things; as, dispassionate proceedings. SYN. Calm, cool, composed, serene, temperate, moderate, impartial Quiet, PATCH. Dispathy (dis'pa-thi), n. [Prefix dis, priv., and pathy, seen in apathy, from Gr. pathos, suffering. See PATHOS.] 1. Want of passion. 2. Absence of sympathy; an opposite taste or liking; uncongeniality. [In both uses rare or obsolete.] Who (Sir Thomas More) recognizes in me some dispathies, but more points of agreement. Southey. Dispauper (dis-pa'per), v. t. [Prefix dis, priv., and pauper.] To deprive of the claim of a pauper to public support, or of the capacity of suing in forma pauperis; to reduce back from the state of a pauper. If a party has a current income, though no permanent property, he must be dispaupered. Phillimore. Dispauperize (dis-pa'per-iz), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv., and pauperize.] To release or free from the state of pauperism; to free from paupers. As well as by that of many highly pauperized dis. tricts in more recent times, which have been dispauperized by adopting strict rules of poor-law adminis F. S. Mill. tration. Dispeace (dis-pês), n. [Prefix dis, priv., and peace.] Want of peace or quiet; dissension. Dispeed (dis-ped'), v.t. To despatch; to dismiss. [Rare.] To that end he dispeeded an embassadour to Poland. Southey. Dispel (dis-pel), v.t. pret. & pp. dispelled; ppr. dispelling. [L. dispello, to drive asunder, to disperse-dis, asunder, and pello, to drive.] To scatter by driving or force; to disperse; to dissipate; to drive away; as, to dispel vapours; to dispel darkness or gloom; to dispel fears; to dispel cares or sorrows; to dispel doubts. Tennyson. I loved, and love dispelled the fear That I should die an early death. SYN. To scatter, dissipate, disperse, drive away, banish, remove. Dispel (dis-pel'), v. i. To fly different ways; to be dispersed; to disappear; as, the clouds dispel. Dispeller (dis-pel'ér), n. He who or that which dispels, as, the sun is the dispeller of darkness. Dispend (dis-pend), v. t. [L. dispendo, to weigh out, to distribute-dis, and pendo, to weigh.] To spend; to lay out; to consume; to expend. [Rare or obsolete.] Fuller. Able to dispend yearly twenty pounds and above. Dispender (dis-pend'êr), n. One that distributes. [Rare.] Dispensable (dis-pens'a-bl), a. 1. That may be dispensed or administered. 'Laws of the land... dispensable by the ordinary courts. State Trials, 1680.-2. That may be spared or dispensed with. Dispensable, at least, if not superfluous.' Coleridge. Not a tone of colour, not a note of form, is misplaced or dispensable. Swinburne. Dispensableness (dis-pens'a-bl-nes), n. The capability of being dispensed with. Dispensary (dis-pens'a-ri), n. 1. A shop in which medicines are compounded; a laboratory. 2. A house, place, or store in which medicines are dispensed to the poor, and medical advice given gratis. Dispensation (dis-pens-a'shon), n. [L. dispensatio, economical management, superintendence, from dispenso. See DISPENSE.] 1. Distribution; the act of dealing out to different persons or places. A dispensation of water indifferently to all parts of the earth.' Woodward. Specifically -2. The dealing of God with his creatures; the distribution of good and evil, natural and moral, in the divine government. Neither are God's methods or intentions different in his dispensations to each private man. Rogers. 3. The granting of a license, or the license itself, to do what is forbidden by laws or canons, or to omit something which is commanded; that is, the dispensing with a law or canon, or the exemption of a particular person from the obligation to comply with its injunctions. The pope has power to dispense with the canons of the Church, but has no right to grant dispensations to the injury of a third person. 4. That which is dispensed or bestowed; specifically, in theol. a system of principles and rights enjoined; as, the Mosaic dispensation; the Gospel dispensation; including, the former, the Levitical law and rites; the latter, the scheme of redemption by Christ. Dispensative (dis-pens'a-tiv), a. Granting dispensation. Dispensatively (dis-pens'a-tiv-li), adv. By dispensation. I can now hold my place canonically, which I held before but dispensatively. Sir H. Wotton. Dispensator (dis'pens-at-êr), n. [L] A dispenser (which see). Dispensatorily (dis-pens'a-to-ri-li), adv. By dispensation; dispensatively. Goodwin. Dispensatory (dis-pens'a-to-ri), a. Having power to grant dispensations. Dispensatory (dis-pens'a-to-ri), n. A book containing the method of preparing the various kinds of medicines used in pharmacy, or containing directions for the composition of medicines, with the proportions of the ingredients, and the methods of preparing them; a pharmacopoeia. Dispense (dis-pens'), v.t. pret. & pp. dispensed; ppr. dispensing. [L. dispenso, to weigh out or pay; hence, to manage household affairs, to act as steward or paymaster -dis, distrib., and penso, freq. of pendo, to weigh.] 1. To deal or divide out in parts or portions; to distribute; as, to dispense charity, medicines, &c.; God dispenses his favours according to his good pleasure. He is delighted to dispense a share of it to all the company. Sir W. Scott. 2. To administer; to apply, as laws to particular cases; to distribute justice. While you dispense the laws and guide the state. Dryden. 3. To atone for; to compensate; to grant pardon for. His sin was dispensed With gold. Gower. 4. To grant dispensation from; to relieve; to excuse; to set free from an obligation; to exempt. It was resolved that all members of the House, who held commissions, should be dispensed from parlia mentary attendance. Macaulay. Dispense (dis-pens), v.i. 1. To bargain for, grant, or receive a dispensation; to compound: used most frequently with the person who is able to grant the dispensation as the subject. The king, of special grace, dispensid with him of the two first peynes. Capgrave. He hath dispensed with a man to marry his own brother's wife. Bp. Jewel. Canst thou dispense with heaven for such an oath? Shak. From the idea of bargaining for a dispensation, or compounding for the performance of something forbidden or the non-performance of something enjoined, are deducible senses (a), (b), (c), (d), of to dispense with: (a) to put up with; to connive at; to allow. Conniving and dispensing with open and common adultery.' Milton. (b) To excuse; to exempt; to relieve; to set free, as from an obligation. Though he may be dispensed with in not speaking with his tongue, yet his heart must crie. Hieron. I could not dispense with myself from making a voyage to Caprea. Addison. (c) To go back from; to break, as one's word. I never knew her dispense with her word but once. Richardson, (d) To permit the neglect or omission of, as a form, a ceremony, an oath, and the like; to suspend the operation of, as a law; to give up, release, or do without, as services, attendance, article of dress, &c. ment. (The Pope) hath dispensed with the oath and duty of subjects to their prince against the fifth commandBp. Andrewes. Many Catholics did then, and do now, think better to dispense with the law of continency, than, by retaining it, to open a gate to unclean single life, leav ing marriage free for all. Sir N. Brent. When art and counterfeit discourse is designed for the benefit of a person, when you can't serve him any other way, when you are morally assured he will dispense with his right to clear information, and thank you for the expedient; in this case, I say, I'm strongly of opinion that swerving from truth is not unjustifiable. Jeremy Collier. There are other uses of to dispense with whose connection with the foregoing does not clearly appear: as, (e) to do or perform; as, to dispense with miracles. Waller. (f) To dispose of; to consume. Several of my friends were, this morning, got together over a dish of tea, in very good health, It was a vault built for great dispense. Spenser. Dispenser (dis-pens'èr), n. One who or that which dispenses or distributes; one who or that which administers; as, a dispenser of favours or of the laws. The drowsy hours, dispensers of all good, O'er the mute city stole with folded wings. Tennyson. Dispensing (dis-pens'ing), a. 1. That may dispense with; granting dispensation; that may grant license to omit what is required by law, or to do what the law forbids; as, a dispensing power.-2. That dispenses, deals out, or distributes; as, a dispensing chemist. Dispeople (dis-pē'pl), v. t. [Prefix dis, priv., and people.] To depopulate; to empty of inhabitants, as by destruction, expulsion, or other means. Let his heart exalt him in the harm Already done, to have dispeopled Heaven. Milton Dispeopler (dis-pē'plėr), n. One who depopulates; a depopulator; that which deprives of inhabitants. 'Stern dispeopler of the plain. Lewis. Disperance, tn. [Fr.] Despair. Chaucer. Disperget (di-spèrj'), v.t. [L. dispergo, to strew or scatter about-dis, distrib., and spargo, to scatter.] To sprinkle. Dispermous (di-spèrm'us), a. [Gr. di for dis, twice, and sperma, seed.] In bot. two-seeded; containing two seeds only; as, umbellate and stellate plants are dispermous. Disperplet (dis-pér'pl), v.t. [A corruption of disparkle (which see).] To disperse; to sprinkle; to scatter. I bathed, and odorous water was Dispersal (dis-pêrs'al), n. Dispersion. Disperse (dis-pèrs), v. t. pret. & pp. dispersed; ppr. dispersing. [L. dispersus, from dispergo di for dis, distrib., and spargo, to scatter; Fr. disperser.] 1. To scatter; to drive asunder; to cause to separate into different parts; as, the Jews are dispersed among all nations. Two lions in the still dark night 2. To diffuse; to spread. Being a king that loved wealth, he could not endure to have trade sick, nor any obstruction to continue in the gate vein which disperseth that blood. Bacon. 5. To make known; to publish. The poet entering on the stage to disperse the argument. B. Jonson. -Dissipate, Disperse, Scatter. See DISSIPATE. SYN. To scatter, dissipate, dispel, spread, diffuse, distribute, deal out, disseminate. Disperse (dis-pèrs'), v.i. 1. To be scattered; to separate; to go or move into different parts; as, the company dispersed at ten o'clock. 2. To break up; to vanish, as fog or vapours. Glory is like a circle in the water, The Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought. Shak. Dispersed (dis-pérst'), p. anda. 1. Scattered. 2. Published; divulged. Their own divulged and dispersed ignominy.' Passenger of Benvenuto. Dispersed harmony, in music, harmony in which the tones for the various parts are at a wide interval from each other. Dispersedly (dis-pèrs'ed-li), adv. In a dispersed manner; separately. Dispersedness (dis-pèrs'ed-nes), n. state of being dispersed or scattered. Disperseness (dis-pèrs'nes), n. Thinness; sparseness; a scattered state. 'Disperseness of habitations.' Brerewood. [Rare.] Disperser (dis-pèrs'ér), n One who disperses; as, the disperser of libels. Dispersion (dis-pèr'shon), n. 1. The act of scattering -2 The state of being scattered or separated into remote parts; as, the Jews in their dispersion retain their rites and ceremonies; there was a great dispersion of the human family at the building of Babel3. In optics, the divergency of the rays of light, or rather the separation of the different coloured rays in refraction, aris 60 ing from their different refrangibilities. The point of dispersion is the point where refracted rays begin to diverge. When a ray of the sun's light is made to pass through prisms of different substances it is found that spectra are formed of different lengths, which is occasioned by the prisms refracting the coloured rays at different angles. Thus, the spectrum formed by a prism of oil of cassia is found to be two or three times longer than one formed by a glass prism. The oil of cassia is therefore said to disperse the rays of light more than the glass, or to have a greater dispersive power. It is also found that in spectra formed by prisms of different substances the coloured spaces have not the same ratio to one another as the length of the spectra which they compose; and this property has been called the irrationality of dispersion or of the coloured spaces in the spectrum.-4. In med. and surg. the removing of inflammation from a part and restoring it to its natural state. Dispersive (dis-pèrs'iv), a. scatter or dissipate. Dispersonate (dis-pèr'son-at), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv., and personate.] To divest of personality or individuality. Hare. Dispirit (dis-pi'rit), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv., and spirit.] 1. To depress the spirits of; to deprive of courage; to discourage; to dishearten; to deject; to cast down. 'Not dispirited with my afflictions.' Dryden. Tending to Our men are dispirited, and not likely to get anyLudlow. thing by fighting with them. 2. To exhaust the spirits or bodily vigour of. [Rare.] He has dispirited himself by a debauch. Collier, SYN. To dishearten, discourage, deject, damp, depress, cast down, intimidate, daunt. Dispirited (dis-pi'rit-ed), p. and a. 1. Discouraged; depressed in spirits; dejected; intimidated.-2. Spiritless; tame; wanting energy; as, a poor dispirited style. pirited recitations.' Hammond. Dispiritedly (dis-pi'rit-ed-li), adv. Dejectedly. Dis Dispiritedness (dis-pi'rit-ed-nes), n. Want of courage; depression of spirits. Dispiritment (dis-pi'rit-ment), n. The act of dispiriting, or state of being dispirited; discouragement. You honestly quit your tools; quit a most muddy, confused coil of sore work, short rations, of sorrows, dispiritments, and contradictions, having now done with it all. Carlyle. Dispiteous (dis-pi'tē-us), a. [See DESPITEOUS.] Having no pity; cruel; furious. When him he spied Spurring so hote with rage dispiteous. Spenser. Dispitous, a. Same as Despitous. Dispitously, adv. Same as Despiteously. Displace (dis-plas'), v. t. pret, & pp. displaced; ppr. displacing. [Prefix dis, priv., and place; Fr. déplacer.] 1. To put out of the usual or proper place; to remove from its place; as, the books in the library are all displaced.-2. To remove from any state, condition, office, or dignity; as, to displace an officer of the revenue. Shak. That may Liable not only to have its acts annulled by him, but to be displaced, as regards the individuals composing it, or annihilated as an institution. Brougham. 3. To disorder; to disturb; to destroy. You have displaced the mirth. Displaceable (dis-plas'a-bl), a. be displaced or removed. Displacement (dis-plas'ment), n. 1. The act of displacing; the act of removing from the usual or proper place, or from a state, condition, or office. The displacement of the centres of the circles.' Asiat. Researches. Unnecessary displacement of funds.' Hamilton.-2. The quantity of water displaced by a body floating at rest, as a ship. Its weight is equal to that of the displacing body.-3. In med. chem. the method by which the active principles of organic bodies are extracted from them. The body is first reduced to a powder, and then subjected to the action of a liquid, which dissolves the soluble matter. When it has been sufficiently charged it is displaced by an additional quantity of the same or of another liquid. Displacency (dis-pla'sen-si), n. [L.L displacentia for L. displicentia, from displicco, to displease--dis, priv., and placeo, to please. Incivility; that which displeases or disobliges. With displacency, or, to use a more common word, with dislike. Beattie. DISPLEASE Displant (dis-plant'), v.t. [Prefix dís, priv., and plant.] 1. To pluck up or to remove what is planted.-2. To drive away or remove from the usual place of residence; as, to displant the people of a country. The Unless philosophy can make a Juliet, Displant a town, reverse a prince's doom. Shak 3. To strip of what is planted or settled; as, to displant a country of inhabitants. Displantation (dis-plant-a'shon), n. act of displanting; removal; displacement. Displat (dis-plat), v. t. [Prefix dis, priv., and plat.] To untwist; to uncurl. Display (dis-plā), v.t. [O. Fr. desployer; Fr. déployer-des, equal to L. dis, priv., and ployer, same as plier, from L. plico, to fold Akin deploy, employ.] 1. To unfold; to open; to spread wide; to expand. The northern wind his wings did broad display. Spenser 2. To spread before the view; to set in view ostentatiously; to show; to exhibit to the eyes or to the mind; to make manifest. 'Display'd a splendid silk of foreign loom.' Tennyson. Proudly displaying the insignia of their order.' Prescott. His growth now to youth's full flower displaying Milton. 3. To carve; to dissect and open.-4. ↑ To discover; to descry. And from his seat took pleasure to display 5. To open; to unlock. Her left (hand holds) a curious bunch of keys, With which heav'n's gate she locketh and displays. B. Jonson. SYN. To exhibit, show, spread out, parade. Display (dis-pla), v. i. 1. To make a show or display.-2. To lay anything open, as in carving or dissection. He carves, displays, and cuts up to a wonder. Spectator. 3. To talk without restraint; to make a great show of words. Display'd so saucily against your highness. Shak. Display (dis-plá'), n. 1. An opening or unfolding; an exhibition of anything to the view.-2. Ostentatious show; exhibition; parade; as, they make a great display of troops; a great display of magnificence. He died, as erring men should die. Without display, without parade. Displayed (dis-plad'), p. and a. 1. Unfolded; Displayed. Byron opened; spread; expanded; exhibited to view; manifested.-2. In her. a term used to express the position of any bird of prey when it is erect, with its wings expanded. Displayer (dis-plā'èr), n. He who or that which displays. Displet (dis'pl), v.t. To discipline; to inflict pe nitentiary whippings. And bitter Penaunce, with an yron whip, Was wont him once to disple every day. Spenser Displeasance + (dis-plez'ans), n. [Prefix dis, priv., and pleasance.] Displeasure; anger; discontent. 'Him to displeasance moov'd.' Spenser. Displeasant + (dis-plez'ant), a. [Prefix dis, prív., and pleasant.] Unpleasing; offensive; unpleasant. Odour noxious and displeasant.' Glanville. Displeasantly (dis-plez'ant-li), adv. Unpleasantly; offensively. Strype. Displease (dis-plez'), v.t. pret. & pp. displeased; ppr. displeasing. [Prefix dis, neg., and please.] 1. Not to please; to dissatisfy; to offend; to make angry, sometimes in a light degree. It usually expresses less than anger, vex, irritate, and provoke. Adversity is so wholesome... why should we be displeased with it. Barrow. God was displeased with this thing; therefore he Chr. xxi. 7. smote Israel. 2. To disgust; to excite aversion in; to be disagreeable to; as, acrid and rancid substances displease the taste; a distorted figure displeases the eye.-3. To make sad; to grieve. Soon as the unwelcome news From earth arrived at Heaven-gate, displeased All were who heard. Milton 4. To fail to accomplish or satisfy; to miss of. I shall displease my ends else. Beau. & FL SYN. To offend, dissatisfy, annoy, disgust, vex, chafe, anger. Displease (dis-plēz'), v.i. To disgust; to raise aversion. |