Discretive – Disjunction

Discretive

DISCRETIVE, adjective [See Discreet and Discrete.]

1. Disjunctive; noting separation or opposition. In logic, a discretive proposition expresses some distinction, opposition or variety, by means of but, though, yet, etc.; as, travelers change their climate, but not their temper; Job was patient, though his grief was great.

2. In grammar, discretive distinctions are such as imply opposition or difference; as, not a man, but a beast.

3. Separate; distinct.

Discretively

DISCRETIVELY, adverb In a discretive manner.

Discriminable

DISCRIMINABLE, adjective That may be discriminated.

Discriminate

DISCRIMINATE, verb transitive [Latin , difference, distinction; differently applied; Gr., Latin ]

1. To distinguish; to observe the difference between; as, we may usually discriminate true from false modesty.

2. To separate; to select from others; to make a distinction between; as, in the last judgment, the righteous will be discriminated from the wicked.

3. To mark with notes of difference; to distinguish by some note or mark. We discriminate animals by names, as nature has discriminated them by different shapes and habits.

DISCRIMINATE, verb intransitive

1. To make a difference or distinction; as, in the application of law, and the punishment of crimes, the judge should discriminate between degrees of guilt.

2. To observe or note a difference; to distinguish; as, in judging of evidence, we should be careful to discriminate between probability and slight presumption.

DISCRIMINATE, adjective Distinguished; having the difference marked.

Discriminated

DISCRIMINATED, participle passive Separated; distinguished.

Discriminately

DISCRIMINATELY, adverb Distinctly; with minute distinction; particularly.

Discriminateness

DISCRIMINATENESS, noun Distinctness; marked difference.

Discriminating

DISCRIMINATING, participle present tense

1. Separating; distinguishing; marking with notes of difference.

2.a. Distinguishing; peculiar; characterized by peculiar differences; as the discriminating doctrines of the gospel.

3.a. That discriminates; able to make nice distinctions; as a discriminating mind.

Discrimination

DISCRIMINATION, noun

1. The act of distinguishing; the act of making or observing a difference; distinction; as the discrimination between right and wrong.

2. The state of being distinguished.

3. Mark of distinction.

Discriminative

DISCRIMINATIVE, adjective

1. That makes the mark of distinction; that constitutes the mark of difference; characteristic; as the discriminative features of men.

2. That observes distinction; as discriminative providence.

Discriminatively

DISCRIMINATIVELY, adverb With discrimination or distinction.

Discriminous

DISCRIMINOUS, adjective Hazardous. [Not used.]

Discubitory

DISCUBITORY, adjective [Latin , to lie down or lean.] Leaning; inclining; or fitted to a leaning posture.

Disculpate

DISCULPATE, verb transitive [Latin , a fault.] To free from blame or fault; to exculpate; to excuse.

Neither does this effect of the independence of nations disculpate the author of an unjust war.

Disculpated

DISCULPATED, participle passive Cleared from blame; exculpated.

Disculpating

DISCULPATING, participle present tense Freeing from blame; excusing.

Discumbency

DISCUMBENCY, noun [Latin See Discubitory.] The act of leaning at meat, according to the manner of the ancients.

Discumber

DISCUMBER, verb transitive [dis and cumber.] To unburden; to throw off any thing cumbersome; to disengage from any troublesome weight, or impediment; to disencumber. [The latter is generally used.]

Discure

DISCURE, verb transitive To discover; to reveal. [Not used.]

Discurrent

DISCURRENT, adjective Not current. [Not used.]

Discursion

DISCURSION, noun [Latin , to run.] A running or rambling about.

Discursist

DISCURSIST, noun [See Discourse.] A disputer. [Not in use.]

Discursive

DISCURSIVE, adjective [Latin , supra.]

1. Moving or roving about; desultory.

2. Argumentative; reasoning; proceeding regularly from premises to consequences; sometimes written discursive Whether brutes have a kind of discursive faculty.

Discursively

DISCURSIVELY, adverb Argumentatively; in the form of reasoning or argument.

Discursiveness

DISCURSIVENESS, noun Range or gradation of argument.

Discursory

DISCURSORY, adjective Argumental; rational.

Discus

DISCUS, noun [Latin]

1. A quoit; a piece of iron, copper or stone, to be thrown in play; used by the ancients.

2. In botany, the middle plain part of a radiated compound flower, generally consisting of small florets, with a hollow regular petal, as in the marigold and daisy.

3. The face or surface of the sun or moon. [See Disk.]

Discuss

DISCUSS, verb transitive [Latin] Literally, to drive; to beat or to shake in pieces; to separate by beating or shaking.

1. To disperse; to scatter; to dissolve; to repel; as, to discuss a tumor; a medical use of the word.

2. To debate; to agitate by argument; to clear of objections and difficulties, with a view to find or illustrate truth; to sift; to examine by disputation; to ventilate; to reason on, for the purpose of separating truth from falsehood. We discuss a subject, a point, a problem, a question, the propriety, expedience or justice of a measure, etc.

3. To break in pieces. [The primary sense, but not used.]

4. To shake off. [Not in use.]

Discussed

DISCUSSED, participle passive Dispersed; dissipated; debated; agitated; argued.

Discusser

DISCUSSER, noun One who discusses; one who sifts or examines.

Discussing

DISCUSSING, participle present tense Dispersing; resolving; scattering; debating; agitating; examining by argument.

DISCUSSING, noun Discussion; examination.

Discussion

DISCUSSION, noun

1. In surgery, resolution; the dispersion of a tumor or any coagulated matter.

2. Debate; disquisition; the agitation of a point or subject with a view to elicit truth; the treating of a subject by argument, to clear it of difficulties, and separate truth from falsehood.

Discussive

DISCUSSIVE, adjective Having the power to discuss, resolve or disperse tumors or coagulated matter.

DISCUSSIVE, noun A medicine that discusses; a discutient.

Discutient

DISCUTIENT, adjective [Latin] Discussing; dispersing morbid matter.

DISCUTIENT, noun A medicine or application which disperses a tumor or any coagulated fluid in the body; sometimes it is equivalent to carminative.

Disdain

DISDAIN, verb transitive [Latin , to think worthy; worthy. See Dignity.] To think unworthy; to deem worthless; to consider to be unworthy of notice, care, regard, esteem, or unworthy of ones character; to scorn; to contemn. The man of elevated mind disdains a mean action; he disdains the society of profligate, worthless men; he disdains to corrupt the innocent, or insult the weak. Goliath disdained David.

Whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock. Job 30:1.

DISDAIN, noun Contempt; scorn; a passion excited in noble minds, by the hatred or detestation of what is mean and dishonorable, and implying a consciousness of superiority of mind, or a supposed superiority of mind, or a supposed superiority. In ignoble minds, disdain may spring from unwarrantable pride or haughtiness, and be directed toward objects of worth. It implies hatred, and sometimes anger.

How my soul is moved with just disdain

Disdained

DISDAINED, participle passive Despised; contemned; scorned.

Disdainful

DISDAINFUL, adjective

1. Full of disdain; as disdainful soul.

2. Expressing disdain; as a disdainful look.

3. Contemptuous; scornful; haughty; indignant.

Disdainfully

DISDAINFULLY, adverb Contemptuously; with scorn; in a haughty manner.

Disdainfulness

DISDAINFULNESS, noun Contempt; contemptuousness; haughty scorn.

Disdaining

DISDAINING, participle present tense Contemning; scorning.

DISDAINING, noun Contempt; scorn.

Disdiaclastic

DISDIACLASTIC, adjective An epithet given by Bartholine and others to a substance supposed to be crystal, but which is a fine pellucid spar, called also Iceland crystal, and by Dr. Hill, from its shape, parallelopipedum.

Disdiapason

DISDIAPASON, BISDIAPASON, noun [See Diapason.] In music, a compound concord in the quadruple ratio of 4:1 or 8:2.

DISDIAPASON diapente, a cocord in a sectuple ratio of 1:6.

DISDIAPASON semi-diapente, a compound concord in the proportion of 16:3.

DISDIAPASON ditone, a compound consontance in the proportion of 10:2.

DISDIAPASON semi-ditone, a compound concord in the proportion of 24:5.

Disease

DISEASE, noun Dizeze. [dis and ease.]

1. In its primary sense, pain, uneasiness, distress, and so used by Spenser; but in this sense, obsolete.

2. The cause of pain or uneasiness; distemper; malady; sickness; disorder; any state of a living body in which the natural functions of the organs are interrupted or disturbed, either by defective or preternatural action, without a disrupture of parts by violence, which is called a wound. The first effect of disease is uneasiness or pain, and the ultimate effect is death. A disease may affect the whole body, or a particular limb or part of the body. We say a diseased limb; a disease in the head or stomach; and such partial affection of the body is called a local or topical disease The word is also applied to the disorders of other animals, as well as to those of man; and to any derangement of the vegetative functions of plants.

The shafts of disease shoot across our path in such a variety of courses, that the atmosphere of human life is darkened by their number, and the escape of an individual becomes almost miraculous.

3. A disordered state of the mind or intellect, by which the reason is impaired.

4. In society, vice; corrupt state of morals. Vices are called moral diseases.

A wise man converses with the wicked, as a physician with the sick, not to catch the disease but to cure it.

5. Political or civil disorder, or vices in a state; any practice which tends to disturb the peace of society, or impede or prevent the regular administration of government.

The instability, injustice and confusion introduced into the public councils have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have every where perished.

DISEASE, verb transitive dizeze.

1. To interrupt or impair any or all the natural and regular functions of the several organs of a living body; to afflict with pain or sickness to make morbid; used chiefly in the passive participle, as a diseased body, a diseased stomach; but diseased may here be considered as an adjective.

2. To interrupt or render imperfect the regular functions of the brain, or of the intellect; to disorder; to derange.

3. To infect; to communicate disease to, by contagion.

4. To pain; to make uneasy.

Diseased

DISEASED, participle passive or adjective Dizezed. Disordered; distempered; sick.

Diseasedness

DISEASEDNESS, noun Dizezedness. The state of being diseased; a morbid state; sickness.

Diseaseful

DISEASEFUL, adjective Dizezeful.

1. Abounding with disease; producing diseases; as diseaseful climate.

2. Occasioning uneasiness.

Diseasement

DISEASEMENT, noun Dizezement. Uneasiness; inconvenience.

Disedged

DISEDGED, a [dis and edge.] Blunted; made dull.

Disembark

DISEMBARK, verb transitive [dis and embark.] To land; to debark; to remove from on board a ship to the land; to put on shore; applied particularly to the landing of troops and military apparatus; as, the general disembarked the troops at sun-rise.

DISEMBARK, verb intransitive To land; to debark; to quit a ship for residence or action on shore; as, the light infantry and calvary disembarked, and marched to meet the enemy.

Disembarked

DISEMBARKED, participle passive Landed; put on shore.

Disembarking

DISEMBARKING, participle present tense Landing; removing from on board a ship to land.

Disembarkment

DISEMBARKMENT, noun The act of disembarking.

Disembarrass

DISEMBARRASS, verb transitive [dis and embarrass.] To free from embarrassment or perplexity; to clear; to extricate.

Disembarrassed

DISEMBARRASSED, participle passive Freed from embarrassment; extricated from difficulty.

Disembarrassing

DISEMBARRASSING, participle present tense Freeing from embarrassment or perplexity; extricating.

Disembarrassment

DISEMBARRASSMENT, noun The act of extricating from perplexity.

Disembay

DISEMBAY, verb transitive To clear from a bay.

Disembitter

DISEMBITTER, verb transitive [dis and embitter.] To free from bitterness; to clear from acrimony; to render sweet or pleasant.

Disembodied

DISEMBODIED, adjective [dis and embodied.]

1. Divested of the body; as disembodied spirits or souls.

2. Separated; discharged from keeping in a body.

Disembody

DISEMBODY, verb transitive

1. To divest of body; to free from flesh.

2. To discharge from military array.

Disembogue

DISEMBOGUE, verb transitive [See Voice.] To pour out or discharge at the mouth, as a stream; to vent; to discharge into the ocean or a lake.

Rolling down, the steep Timavus raves, and through nine channels disembogues his waves.

DISEMBOGUE, verb intransitive

1. To flow out at the mouth, as a river; to discharge waters into the ocean, or into a lake. Innumerable rivers disembogue into the ocean.

2. To pass out of a gulf or bay.

Disemboguement

DISEMBOGUEMENT, noun Discharge of waters into the ocean or a lake.

Disembosom

DISEMBOSOM, verb transitive To separate from the bosom.

Disembowel

DISEMBOWEL, verb transitive [dis and embowel.] To take out the bowels; to take or draw from the bowels, as the web of a spider.

Disemboweled

DISEMBOWELED, participle passive Taken or drawn from the bowels.

DISEMBOWELED web.

Disemboweling

DISEMBOWELING, participle present tense Taking or drawing from the bowels.

Disembrangle

DISEMBRANGLE, verb transitive To free from litigation. [Not used.]

Disembroil

DISEMBROIL, verb transitive [dis and embroil.] To disentangle; to free from perplexity; to extricate from confusion.

Disembroiled

DISEMBROILED, participle passive Disentangled; cleared from perplexity or confusion.

Disembroiling

DISEMBROILING, participle present tense Disentangling; freeing from confusion.

Disenable

DISENABLE, verb transitive [dis and enable.] To deprive of power, natural or moral; to disable; to deprive of ability or means. A man may be disenabled to walk by lameness; and by poverty he is disenabled to support his family.

Disenabled

DISENABLED, participle passive Deprived of power, ability or means.

Disenabling

DISENABLING, participle present tense Depriving of power, ability or means.

Disenchant

DISENCHANT, verb transitive [dis and enchant.] To free from enchantment; to deliver from the power of charms or spells.

Haste to thy work; a noble stroke or two ends all the charms, and disenchants the grove.

Disenchanted

DISENCHANTED, participle passive Delivered from enchantment, or the power of charms.

Disenchanting

DISENCHANTING, participle present tense Freeing from enchantment, or the influence of charms.

Disencumber

DISENCUMBER, verb transitive [dis and encumber.]

1. To free from encumbrance; to deliver from clogs and impediments; to disburden; as, to disencumber troops of their baggage; to disencumber the soul of its body of clay; to disencumber the mind of its cares and griefs.

2. To free from any obstruction; to free from any thing heavy or unnecessary; as a disencumbered building.

Disencumbered

DISENCUMBERED, participle passive Freed from incumbrance.

Disencumbering

DISENCUMBERING, participle present tense Freeing from incumbrance.

Disencumbrance

DISENCUMBRANCE, noun Freedom or deliverance from incumbrance, or any thing burdensome or troublesome.

Disengage

DISENGAGE, verb transitive [dis and engage.]

1. To separate, as a substance from any thing with which it is in union; to free; to loose; to liberate; as, to disengage a metal from extraneous substances.

Caloric and light must be disengaged during the process.

2. To separate from that to which one adheres, or is attached; as, to disengage a man from a party.

3. To disentangle; to extricate; to clear from impediments, difficulties or perplexities; as, to disengage one from broils or controversies.

4. To detach; to withdraw; to wean; as, to disengage the heart or affections from earthly pursuits.

5. To free from any thing that commands the mind, or employs the attention; as, to disengage the mind from study; to disengage ones self from business.

6. To release or liberate from a promise or obligation; to set free by dissolving an engagement; as, the men, who were enlisted, are now disengaged; the lady, who had promised to give her hand in marriage, is disengaged. Let it be observed that disengaged properly implies previous engagement; and is not to be confounded with unengaged, which does not always imply prior engagement. This distinction is sometimes carelessly overlooked.

Disengaged

DISENGAGED, participle passive

1. Separated; detached; set free; released; disjoined; disentangled.

2.a. Vacant; being at leisure; not particularly occupied; not having the attention confined to a particular object. [This word is thus used by mistake for unengaged, not engaged.]

Disengagedness

DISENGAGEDNESS, noun

1. The quality or state of being disengaged; freedom from connection; disjunction.

2. Vacuity of attention.

Disengagement

DISENGAGEMENT, noun

1. A setting free; separation; extrication.

It is easy to render this disengagement of caloric and light evident to the senses.

2. The act of separating or detaching.

3. Liberation or release from obligation.

4. Freedom from attention; vacancy; leisure.

Disengaging

DISENGAGING, participle present tense Separating; loosing; setting free; detaching; liberating; releasing from obligation.

Disennoble

DISENNOBLE, verb transitive To deprive of title, or of that which ennobles.

Disenroll

DISENROLL, verb intransitive To erase from a roll or list.

Disenslave

DISENSLAVE, verb transitive To free from bondage.

Disentangle

DISENTANGLE, verb transitive [dis and entangle.]

1. To unravel; to unfold; to untwist; to loose, separate or disconnect things which are interwove, or united without order; as, to disentangle net-work; to disentangle a skain of yarn.

2. To free; to extricate from perplexity; to disengage from complicated concerns; to set free from impediments or difficulties; as, to disentangle ones self from business, from political affairs, or from the cares and temptations of life.

3. To disengage; to separate.

Disentangled

DISENTANGLED, participle passive Freed from entanglement; extricated.

Disentangling

DISENTANGLING, participle present tense Freeing from entanglement; extricated.

Disenter

DISENTER. [See Disinter.]

Disenthrone

DISENTHRONE, verb transitive [dis and enthrone.] To dethrone; to depose from sovereign authority; as, to disenthrone a king.

Disenthroned

DISENTHRONED, participle passive Deposed; deprived of sovereign power.

Disenthroning

DISENTHRONING, participle present tense Deposing; depriving of royal authority.

Disentitle

DISENTITLE, verb transitive To deprive of title.

Disentrance

DISENTRANCE, verb transitive [dis and entrance.] To awaken from a trance, or from deep sleep; to arouse from a reverie.

Disentranced

DISENTRANCED, participle passive Awakened from a trance, sleep or reverie.

Disentrancing

DISENTRANCING, participle present tense Arousing from a trance, sleep or reverie.

Disespouse

DISESPOUSE, verb transitive disespouz. [dis and espouse.] To separate after espousal or plighted faith; to divorce.

Disespoused

DISESPOUSED, participle passive Separated after espousal; released from obligation to marry.

Disespousing

DISESPOUSING, participle present tense Separating after plighted faith.

Disesteem

DISESTEEM, noun [dis and esteem.] Want of esteem; slight dislike; disregard. It expresses less than hatred or contempt.

DISESTEEM, verb transitive To dislike in a moderate degree; to consider with disregard, disapprobation, dislike or slight contempt; to slight.

But if this sacred gift you disesteem

Disesteemed

DISESTEEMED, participle passive Disliked; slighted.

Disesteeming

DISESTEEMING, participle present tense Disliking; slighting.

Disexercise

DISEXERCISE, verb transitive To deprive of exercise. [A bad word.]

Disfancy

DISFANCY, verb transitive To dislike. [Not used.]

Disfavor

DISFAVOR, noun [dis and favor.]

1. Dislike; slight displeasure; discountenance; unfavorable regard; disesteem; as, the conduct of the minister incurred the disfavor of his sovereign.

2. A state of unacceptableness; a state in which one is not esteemed or favored, or not patronized, promoted or befriended; as, to be in disfavor at court.

3. An ill or disobliging act; as, no generous man will do a disfavor to the meanest of his species.

DISFAVOR, verb transitive To discountenance; to withdraw or withhold from one, kindness, friendship or support; to check or oppose by disapprobation; as, let the man be countenanced or disfavored, according to his merits.

Disfavored

DISFAVORED, participle passive Discountenanced; not favored.

Disfavorer

DISFAVORER, noun One who discountenances.

Disfavoring

DISFAVORING, participle present tense Discountenancing.

Disfiguration

DISFIGURATION, noun [See Disfigure.]

1. The act of disfiguring, or marring external form.

2. The state of being disfigured; some degree of deformity.

Disfigure

DISFIGURE, verb transitive [dis and figure.]

1. To change to a worse form; to mar external figure; to impair shape or form and render it less perfect and beautiful; as, the loss of a limb disfigures the body.

2. To mar; to impair; to injure beauty, symmetry or excellence.

Disfigured

DISFIGURED, participle passive Changed to a worse form; impaired in form or appearance.

Disfigurement

DISFIGUREMENT, noun Change of external form to the worse; defacement of beauty.

Disfigurer

DISFIGURER, noun One who disfigures.

Disfiguring

DISFIGURING, participle present tense Injuring the form or shape; impairing the beauty of form.

Disforest

DISFOREST. [See Disafforest.]

Disfranchise

DISFRANCHISE, verb transitive [dis and franchise.] To deprive of the rights and privileges of a free citizen; to deprive of chartered rights and immunities; to deprive of any franchise, as of the right of voting in elections, etc.

Disfranchised

DISFRANCHISED, participle passive Deprived of the rights and privileges of a free citizen, or of some particular franchise.

Disfranchisement

DISFRANCHISEMENT, noun The act of disfranchising, or depriving of the privileges of a free citizen, or of some particular immunity.

Disfranchising

DISFRANCHISING, participle present tense Depriving of the privileges of a free citizen, or of some particular immunity.

Disfriar

DISFRIAR, verb transitive [dis and friar.] To deprive of the state of a friar. [Not used.]

Disfurnish

DISFURNISH, verb transitive [dis and furnish.] To deprive of furniture; to strip of apparatus, habiliments or equipage.

Disfurnished

DISFURNISHED, participle passive Deprived of furniture; stripped of apparatus.

Disfurnishing

DISFURNISHING, participle present tense Depriving of furniture or apparatus.

Disgallant

DISGALLANT, verb transitive To deprive of gallantry. [Not used.]

Disgarnish

DISGARNISH, verb transitive [dis and garnish.]

1. To divest of garniture or ornaments.

2. To deprive of a garrison, guns and military apparatus; to degarnish.

Disgarrison

DISGARRISON, verb transitive To deprive of a garrison.

Disgavel

DISGAVEL, verb transitive [See Gavelkind.] To take away the tenure of gavelkind.

Disgaveled

DISGAVELED, participle passive Deprived of the tenure by gavelkind.

Disgaveling

DISGAVELING, participle present tense Taking away tenure by gavelkind.

Disglorify

DISGLORIFY, verb transitive [dis and glorify.] To deprive of glory; to treat with indignity. The participle disglorified is used by Milton; but the word is little used.

Disgorge

DISGORGE, verb transitive disgorj.

1. To eject or discharge from the stomach, throat or mouth; to vomit.

2. To throw out with violence; to discharge violently or in great quantities from a confined place. Thus, volcanoes are said to disgorge streams of burning lava, ashes and stones. Miltons infernal rivers disgorge their streams into a burning lake.

Disgorged

DISGORGED, participle passive Ejected; discharged from the stomach or mouth; thrown out with violence and in great quantities.

Disgorgement

DISGORGEMENT, noun Disgorjment. The act of disgorging; a vomiting.

Disgorging

DISGORGING, participle present tense Discharging from the throat or mouth; vomiting; ejecting with violence and in great quantities.

Disgospel

DISGOSPEL, verb intransitive [dis and gospel.] To differ from the precepts of the gospel. [Not used.]

Disgrace

DISGRACE, noun [dis and grace.]

1. A state of being out of favor; disfavor; disesteem; as, the minister retired from court in disgrace

2. State of ignominy; dishonor; shame.

3. Cause of shame; as, to turn the back to the enemy is a foul disgrace; every vice is a disgrace to a rational being.

4. Act of unkindness. [Not used.]

DISGRACE, verb transitive

1. To put out of favor; as, the minister was disgraced.

2. To bring a reproach on; to dishonor; as an agent. Men are apt to take pleasure in disgracing an enemy and his performance.

3. To bring to shame; to dishonor; to sink in estimation; as a cause; as, men often boast of actions which disgrace them.

Disgraced

DISGRACED, participle passive Put out of favor; brought under reproach; dishonored.

Disgraceful

DISGRACEFUL, adjective Shameful; reproachful; dishonorable; procuring shame; sinking reputation. Cowardice is disgraceful to a soldier. Intemperance and profaneness are disgraceful to a man, but more disgraceful to a woman.

Disgracefully

DISGRACEFULLY, adverb

1. With disgrace.

The senate have cast you forth disgracefully

2. Shamefully; reproachfully; ignominiously; in a disgraceful manner; as the troops fled disgracefully

Disgracefulness

DISGRACEFULNESS, noun Ignominy; shamefulness.

Disgracer

DISGRACER, noun One who disgraces; one who exposes to disgrace; one who brings into disgrace, shame or contempt.

Disgracing

DISGRACING, participle present tense Bringing reproach on; dishonoring.

Disgracious

DISGRACIOUS, adjective [dis and gracious.] Ungracious; unpleasing.

Disgregate

DISGREGATE, verb transitive To separate; to disperse. [Little used.]

Disguise

DISGUISE, verb transitive disgize.

1. To conceal by an unusual habit, or mask. Men sometimes disguise themselves fro the purpose of committing crimes without danger of detection. They disguise their faces in a masquerade.

2. To hide by a counterfeit appearance; to cloke by a false show, by false language, or an artificial manner; as, to disguise anger, sentiments or intentions.

3. To disfigure; to alter the form, and exhibit an unusual appearance.

They saw the faces, which too well they knew, though then disguised in death.

4. To disfigure or deform by liquor; to intoxicate.

DISGUISE, noun

1. A counterfeit habit; a dress intended to conceal the person who wears it.

By the laws of England, persons doing unlawful acts in disguise are subjected to heavy penalties, and in some cases, declared felons.

2. A false appearance; a counterfeit show; an artificial or assumed appearance in tended to deceive the beholder.

A treacherous design is often concealed under the disguise of great candor.

3. Change of manner by drink; intoxication.

Disguised

DISGUISED, participle passive Concealed by a counterfeit habit or appearance; intoxicated.

Disguisement

DISGUISEMENT, noun Dress of concealment; false appearance.

Disguiser

DISGUISER, noun

1. One who disguises himself or another.

2. He or that which disfigures.

Disguising

DISGUISING, participle present tense Concealing by a counterfeit dress, or by a false show; intoxicating.

DISGUISING, noun

1. The act of giving a false appearance.

2. Theatrical mummery or masking.

Disgust

DISGUST, noun [Latin]

1. Disrelish; distaste; aversion to the taste of food or drink; an unpleasant sensation excited int he organs of taste by something disagreeable, and when extreme, producing loathing or nausea.

2. Dislike; aversion; an unpleasant sensation in the mind excited by something offensive in the manners, conduct, language or opinions of others. Thus, obscenity in language and clownishness in behavior excite disgust

DISGUST, verb transitive

1. To excite aversion in the stomach; to offend the taste.

2. To displease; to offend the mind or moral taste; with at or with; as, to be disgusted at foppery, or with vulgar manners. To disgust from is unusual and hardly legitimate.

Disgusted

DISGUSTED, participle passive Displeased; offended.

Disgustful

DISGUSTFUL, adjective Offensive to the taste; nauseous; exciting aversion in the natural or moral taste.

Disgusting

DISGUSTING, participle present tense

1. Provoking aversion; offending the taste.

2. adjective Provoking dislike; odious; hateful; as disgusting servility.

Disgustingly

DISGUSTINGLY, adverb In a manner to give disgust.

Dish

DISH, noun [Gr., Latin It is the same word as disk and desk, and seems to signify something flat, plain or extended.]

1. A broad open vessel, made of various materials, used for serving up meat and various kinds of food at the table. It is sometimes used for a deep hollow vessel for liquors.

2. The meat or provisions served in a dish Hence, any particular kind of food.

I have here a dish of doves.

We say, a dish of veal or venison; a cold dish; a warm dish; a delicious dish

3. Among miners, a trough in which ore is measure, about 28 inches long, 4 deep and 6 wide.

DISH, verb transitive To put in a dish; as, the meat is all dished, and ready for the table.

Dish-Cloth

DISH-CLOTH, DISH-CLOUT, noun A cloth used for washing and wiping dishes.

Dish-Washer

DISH-WASHER, noun The name of a bird, the mergus.

Dish-Water

DISH-WATER, noun Water in which dishes are washed.

Dishabil

DISHABILLE, dishabil noun [See Habit.] An undress; a loose negligent dress for the morning. But see Deshabille, the French and more correct orthography. Dryden uses the word as a participle. Queens are not to be too negligently dressed or dishabille. In this use, he is not followed.

Dishabille

DISHABILLE, DISHABIL, noun [See Habit.] An undress; a loose negligent dress for the morning. But see Deshabille, the French and more correct orthography. Dryden uses the word as a participle. Queens are not to be too negligently dressed or dishabille In this use, he is not followed.

Dishabit

DISHABIT, verb transitive To drive from a habitation. [Not in use.]

Disharmonious

DISHARMONIOUS, adjective Incongruous. [See Unharmonious.]

Disharmony

DISHARMONY, noun [dis and harmony.] Want of harmony; discord; incongruity. [Not used.]

Dishearten

DISHEARTEN, verb transitive dishartn. [dis and heart.] To discourage; to deprive of courage; to depress the spirits; to deject; to impress with fear; as, it is weakness to be disheartened by small obstacles.

Disheartened

DISHEARTENED, participle passive Dishartned. Discouraged; depressed in spirits; cast down.

Disheartening

DISHEARTENING, participle present tense Dishartning. Discouraging; depressing the spirits.

Dished

DISHED, participle passive Put in a dish or dishes.

Disheir

DISHEIR, verb transitive dizare. To debar from inheriting. [Not in use.]

Disherison

DISHERISON, noun [See Disherit.] The act of disinheriting, or cutting off from inheritance.

Disherit

DISHERIT, verb transitive [See Heir.] To disinherit; to cut off from the possession or enjoyment of an inheritance. [See Disinherit, which is more generally used.]

Disheritance

DISHERITANCE, noun The state of disheriting or of being disinherited.

Disherited

DISHERITED, participle passive Cut off from an inheritance or hereditary succession.

Disheriting

DISHERITING, participle present tense Cutting off from an inheritance.

Dishevel

DISHEVEL, verb transitive [Latin] To spread the hair loosely; to suffer the hair of the head to hang negligently, and to flow without confinement; used chiefly in the passive participle.

DISHEVEL, verb intransitive To spread in disorder.

Disheveled

DISHEVELED, participle passive or adjective Hanging loosely and negligently without confinement; flowing in disorder; as disheveled locks.

Disheveling

DISHEVELING, participle present tense Spreading loosely.

Dishing

DISHING, participle passive [See Dish.]

1. Putting in a dish or dishes.

2. adjective Concave; having the hollow form of a dish.

Dishonest

DISHONEST, adjective Dizonest. [dis and honest.]

1. Void of honesty; destitute of probity, integrity or good faith; faithless; fraudulent; knavish; having or exercising a disposition to deceive, cheat and defraud; applied to persons; as a dishonest man.

2. Proceeding from fraud or marked by it; fraudulent; knavish; as a dishonest transaction.

3. Disgraced; dishonored; from the sense in Latin.

DISHONEST with lopped arms the youth appears.

4. Disgraceful; ignominious; from the Latin sense.

Inglorious triumphs, and dishonest scars.

5. Unchaste; lewd.

Dishonestly

DISHONESTLY, adverb Dizonestly.

1. In a dishonest manner; without good faith, probity or integrity; with fraudulent views; knavishly.

2. Lewdly; unchastely.

Dishonesty

DISHONESTY, noun Dizonesty.

1. Want of probity, or integrity in principle; faithlessness; a disposition to cheat or defraud, or to deceive and betray; applied to persons.

2. Violation of trust or of justice; fraud; treachery; any deviation from probity or integrity; applied to acts.

3. Unchastity; incontinence; lewdness.

4. Deceit; wickedness; shame. 2 Corinthians 4:2.

Dishonor

DISHONOR, noun Dizonor. [dis and honor.] Reproach; disgrace; ignominy; shame; whatever constitutes a stain or blemish in the reputation.

It was not meet for us to see the kings dishonor Ezra 4:1.

It may express less than ignominy and infamy.

DISHONOR, verb transitive

1. To disgrace; to bring reproach or shame on; to stain the character of; to lessen reputation. The duelist dishonors himself to maintain his honor.

The impunity of the crimes of great men dishonors the administration of the laws.

2. To treat with indignity.

3. To violate the chastity of; to debauch.

4. To refuse or decline to accept or pay; as, to dishonor a bill of exchange.

Dishonorable

DISHONORABLE, adjective

1. Shameful; reproachful; base; vile; bringing shame on; staining the character, and lessening reputation. Every act of meanness, and every vice is dishonorable

2. Destitute of honor; as a dishonorable man.

3. In a state of neglect or disesteem.

He that is dishonorable in riches, how much more in poverty?

Dishonorably

DISHONORABLY, adverb Reproachfully; in a dishonorable manner.

Dishonorary

DISHONORARY, adjective Dizonorary. Bringing dishonor on; tending to disgrace; lessening reputation.

Dishonored

DISHONORED, participle passive Disgraced; brought into disrepute.

Dishonorer

DISHONORER, noun One who dishonors or disgraces; one who treats another with indignity.

Dishonoring

DISHONORING, participle present tense Disgracing; bringing into disrepute; treating with indignity.

Dishorn

DISHORN, verb transitive [dis and horn.] To deprive of horns.

Dishorned

DISHORNED, participle passive Stripped of horns.

Dishumor

DISHUMOR, noun [dis and humor.] Peevishness; ill humor. [Little used.]

Disimpark

DISIMPARK, verb transitive [dis, in and park.] To free from the barriers of a park; to free from restraints or seclusion. [Little used.]

Disimprovement

DISIMPROVEMENT, noun [dis and improvement.] Reduction from a better to a worse state; the contrary to improvement or melioration; as the disimprovement of the earth. [Little used.]

Disincarcerate

DISINCARCERATE, verb transitive [dis and incarcerate.] To liberate from prison; to set free from confinement. [Not much used.]

Disinclination

DISINCLINATION, noun [dis and inclination.] Want of inclination; want of propensity, desire or affection; slight dislike; aversion; expressing less than hate.

Disappointment gave him a disinclination to the fair sex.

Disincline

DISINCLINE, verb transitive [dis and incline.] To excite dislike or slight aversion; to make disaffected; to alienate from. His timidity disinclined him from such an arduous enterprise.

Disinclined

DISINCLINED, participle passive Not inclined; averse.

Disinclining

DISINCLINING, participle present tense Exciting dislike or slight aversion.

Disincorporate

DISINCORPORATE, verb transitive

1. To deprive of corporate powers; to disunite a corporate body, or an established society.

2. To detach or separate from a corporation or society.

Disincorporation

DISINCORPORATION, noun Deprivation of the rights and privileges of a corporation.

Disinfect

DISINFECT, verb transitive [dis and infect.] To cleanse from infection; to purify from contagious matter.

Disinfected

DISINFECTED, participle passive Cleansed from infection.

Disinfecting

DISINFECTING, participle present tense Purifying from infection.

Disinfection

DISINFECTION, noun Purification from infecting matter.

Disingenuity

DISINGENUITY, noun [dis and ingenuity.] Meanness of artifice; unfairness; disingenuousness; want of candor. [This word is little used, or not at all, in the sense here explained. See Ingenuity. We now use in lieu of it disingenuousness.]

Disingenuous

DISINGENUOUS, adjective [dis and ingenuous.]

1. Unfair; not open, frank and candid; meanly artful; illiberal; applied to persons.

2. Unfair; meanly artful; unbecoming true honor and dignity; as disingenuous conduct; disingenuous schemes.

Disingenuously

DISINGENUOUSLY, adverb In a disingenuous manner; unfairly; not openly and candidly; with secret management.

Disingenuousness

DISINGENUOUSNESS, noun

1. Unfairness; want of candor; low craft; as the disingenuousness of a man, or of his mind.

2. Characterized by unfairness, as conduct or practices.

Disinherison

DISINHERISON, noun [dis and inherit.]

1. The act of cutting off from hereditary succession; the act of disinheriting.

2. The state of being disinherited.

Disinherit

DISINHERIT, verb transitive [dis and inherit.] To cut off from hereditary right; to deprive of an inheritance; to prevent as an heir from coming into possession of any property or right, which, by law or custom, would devolve on him in the course of descent. A father sometimes disinherits his children by will. In England, the crown is descendible to the eldest son, who cannot be disinherited by the will of his father.

Disinherited

DISINHERITED, participle passive Cut off from an inheritance.

Disinheriting

DISINHERITING, participle present tense Depriving of an hereditary estate or right.

Disintegrable

DISINTEGRABLE, adjective [dis and integer.] That may be separated into integrant parts; capable of disintegration.

Argillo-calcite is readily disintegrable by exposure to the atmosphere.

Disintegrate

DISINTEGRATE, verb transitive [dis and integer.] To separate the integrant parts of.

Marlites are not disintegrated by exposure to the atmosphere, at least in six years.

Disintegrated

DISINTEGRATED, participle passive Separated into integrant parts without chemical action.

Disintegration

DISINTEGRATION, noun The act of separating integrant parts of a substance, as distinguished from decomposition or the separation of constituent parts.

Disinter

DISINTER, verb transitive [dis and inter.]

1. To take out of a grave, or out of the earth; as, to disinter a dead body that is buried.

2. To take out as from a grave; to bring from obscurity into view.

The philosopher--may be concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred. [Unusual.]

Disinteressed

DISINTERESSED, DISINTERESSMENT, [See Disinterested, etc.]

Disinteressment

DISINTERESSED, DISINTERESSMENT [See Disinterested, etc.]

Disinterest

DISINTEREST, noun [dis and interest.]

1. What is contrary to the interest or advantage; disadvantage; injury. [Little used or not at all.]

2. Indifference to profit; want of regard to private advantage.

DISINTEREST, verb transitive To disengage from private interest or personal advantage. [Little used.]

Disinterested

DISINTERESTED, adjective

1. Uninterested; indifferent; free from self-interest; having no personal interest or private advantage in a question or affair. It is important that a judge should be perfectly disinterested

2. Not influenced or dictated by private advantage; as a disinterested decision. [This word is more generally used than uninterested.]

Disinterestedly

DISINTERESTEDLY, adverb In a disinterested manner.

Disinterestedness

DISINTERESTEDNESS, noun 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; indifference.

Disinteresting

DISINTERESTING, adjective Uninteresting. [The latter is the word now used.]

Disinterment

DISINTERMENT, noun The act of disinterring, or taking out of the earth.

Disinterred

DISINTERRED, participle passive Taken out of the earth or grave.

Disinterring

DISINTERRING, participle present tense Taking out of the earth, or out of a grave.

Disinthrall

DISINTHRALL, verb transitive [dis and enthrall.] To liberate from slavery, bondage or servitude; to free or rescue from oppression.

Disinthralled

DISINTHRALLED, participle passive Set free from bondage.

Disinthralling

DISINTHRALLING, participle present tense Delivering from slavery or servitude.

Disinthrallment

DISINTHRALLMENT, noun Liberation from bondage; emancipation from slavery.

Disinure

DISINURE, verb transitive [dis and inure.] To deprive of familiarity or custom.

Disinvite

DISINVITE, verb transitive To recall an invitation.

Disinvolve

DISINVOLVE, verb transitive disinvolv. [dis and involve.] To uncover; to unfold or unroll; to disentangle.

Disjoin

DISJOIN, verb transitive [dis and join.] To part; to disunite; to separate; to sunder.

Disjoined

DISJOINED, participle passive Disunited; separated.

Disjoining

DISJOINING, participle present tense Disuniting; severing.

Disjoint

DISJOINT, verb transitive [dis and joint.]

1. To separate a joint; to separate parts united by joints; as, to disjoint the limbs; to disjoint bones; to disjoint a fowl in carving.

2. To put out of joint; to force out of its socket; to dislocate.

3. To separate at junctures; to break at the part where things are united by cement; as disjointed columns.

4. To break in pieces; to separate united parts; as, to disjoint an edifice; the disjointed parts of a ship.

5. To break the natural order and relations of a thing; to make incoherent; as a disjointed speech.

DISJOINT, verb intransitive To fall in pieces.

DISJOINT, adjective Disjointed.

Disjointed

DISJOINTED, participle passive Separated at the joints; parted limb from limb; carved; put out of joint; not coherent.

Disjointing

DISJOINTING, participle present tense Separating joints; disjoining limb from limb; breaking at the seams or junctures; rendering incoherent.

Disjointly

DISJOINTLY, adverb In a divided state.

Disjudication

DISJUDICATION, noun [Latin] Judgment; determination. [Not used.]

Disjunct

DISJUNCT, adjective [Latin , to join.] Disjoined; separated.

Disjunction

DISJUNCTION, noun [Latin] The act of disjoining; disunion; separation; a parting; as the disjunction of soul and body.