Disjunctive – Disposer

Disjunctive

DISJUNCTIVE, adjective

1. Separating; disjoining.

2. Incapable of union. [Unusual.]

3. In grammar, a disjunctive conjunction or connective, is a word which unites sentences or the parts of discourse in construction, but disjoins the sense, noting an alternative or opposition; as, I love him, or I fear him; I neither love him, nor fear him.

4. In logic, a disjunctive proposition, is one in which the parts are opposed to each other, by means of disjunctive; as, it is either day or night. A disjunctive syllogism, is when 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.

DISJUNCTIVE, noun A word that disjoins, as or, nor neither.

Disjunctively

DISJUNCTIVELY, adverb In a disjunctive manner; separately.

Disk

DISK, noun [Latin See Dish and Desk.]

1. The body and face of the sun, moon or a planet, as it appears to us on the earth; or the body and face of the earth, as it appears to a spectator in the moon.

2. A quoit; a piece of stone, iron or copper, inclining to an oval figure, which the ancients hurled by the help of a leathern thong tied round the persons hand, and put through a hole in the middle.

Some whirl the disk and some the javlin dart.

3. In botany, the whole surface of a leaf; the central part of a radiate compound flower.

Diskindness

DISKINDNESS, noun [dis and kindness.]

1. Want of kindness; unkindness; want of affection.

2. Ill turn; injury; detriment.

Dislike

DISLIKE, noun [dis and like.]

1. Disapprobation; disinclination; displeasure; aversion; a moderate degree of hatred. A man shows his dislike to measures which he disapproves, to a proposal which he is disinclined to accept, and to food which he does not relish. All wise and good men manifest their dislike to folly.

2. Discord; disagreement. [Not in use.]

DISLIKE, verb transitive

1. To disapprove; to regard with some aversion or displeasure. We dislike proceedings which we deem wrong; we dislike persons of evil habit; we dislike whatever gives us pain.

2. To disrelish; to regard with some disgust; as, to dislike particular kinds of food.

Disliked

DISLIKED, participle passive Disapproved; disrelished.

Dislikeful

DISLIKEFUL, adjective Disliking; disaffected. [Not used.]

Disliken

DISLIKEN, verb transitive To make unlike.

Dislikeness

DISLIKENESS, noun [dis and likeness.] Unlikeness; want of resemblance; dissimilitude.

Disliker

DISLIKER, noun One who disapproves, or disrelishes.

Disliking

DISLIKING, participle present tense Disapproving; disrelishing.

Dislimb

DISLIMB, verb transitive dislim. To tear the limbs from.

Dislimn

DISLIMN, verb transitive dislim. To strike out of a picture. [Not in use.]

Dislocate

DISLOCATE, verb transitive [dis and locate, Latin , place.] To displace; to put out of its proper place; particularly, to put out of joint; to disjoint; to move a bone from its socket, cavity or place of articulation.

Dislocated

DISLOCATED, participle passive Removed from its proper place; put out of joint.

Dislocating

DISLOCATING, participle present tense Putting out of its proper place or out of joint.

Dislocation

DISLOCATION, noun

1. The act of moving from its proper place; particularly, the act of removing or forcing a bone from its socket; luxation.

2. The sate of being displaced.

3. A joint displaced.

4. In geology, the displacement of parts of rocks, or portions of strata, from the situations which they originally occupied.

Dislodge

DISLODGE, verb transitive dislodj. [dis and lodge.]

1. To remove or drive from a lodge or place or rest; to drive from the place where a thing naturally rests or inhabits. Shells resting int he sea at a considerable depth, are not dislodged by storms.

2. To drive from a place of retirement or retreat; as, to dislodge a coney or a deer.

3. To drive from any place of rest or habitation, or from any station; as, to dislodge the enemy from their quarters, from a hill or wall.

4. To remove an army to other quarters.

DISLODGE, verb intransitive To go from a place of rest.

Dislodged

DISLODGED, participle passive Driven from a lodge or place of rest; removed from a place of habitation, or from any station.

Dislodging

DISLODGING, participle present tense Driving from a lodge or place of rest; removed from a place of habitation, or from any station.

DISLODGING, participle present tense Driving from a lodge, from a place of rest or retreat, or from any station.

Disloyal

DISLOYAL, adjective [dis and loyal.]

1. Not true to allegiance; false to a sovereign; faithless; as a disloyal subject.

2. False; perfidious; treacherous; as a disloyal knave.

3. Not true to the marriage-bed.

4. False in love; not constant.

Disloyally

DISLOYALLY, adverb In a disloyal manner; with violation of faith or duty to a sovereign; faithlessly; perfidiously.

Disloyalty

DISLOYALTY, noun

1. Want of fidelity to a sovereign; violation of allegiance, or duty to a prince or sovereign authority.

2. Want of fidelity in love.

Dismal

DISMAL, adjective s as z. [I am not satisfied with the etymologies of this word which I have seen. ]

1. Dark; gloomy; as a dismal shade.

2. Sorrowful; dire; horrid; melancholy; calamitous; unfortunate; as a dismal accident; dismal effects.

3. Frightful; horrible; as a dismal scream.

Dismally

DISMALLY, adverb Gloomily; horrible; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.

Dismalness

DISMALNESS, noun Gloominess; horror.

Dismantle

DISMANTLE, verb transitive [dis and mantle.]

1. To deprive of dress; to strip; to divest.

2. To loose; to throw open.

3. More generally, to deprive or strip of apparatus, or furniture; to unrig; as, to dismantle a ship.

4. To deprive or strip of military furniture; as, to dismantle a fortress.

5. To deprive of outworks or forts; as, to dismantle a town.

6. To break down; as, his nose dismantled.

Dismantled

DISMANTLED, participle passive Divested; stripped of furniture; unrigged.

Dismantling

DISMANTLING, participle present tense Stripping of dress; depriving of apparatus or furniture.

Dismask

DISMASK, verb transitive [dis and mask.] To strip off a mask; to uncover; to remove that which conceals.

Dismasked

DISMASKED, participle passive Divested of a mask; stripped of covering or disguise; uncovered.

Dismasking

DISMASKING, participle present tense Stripping of a mask or covering.

Dismast

DISMAST, verb transitive [dis and mast.] To deprive of a mast or masts; to break and carry away the masts from; as, a storm dismated the ship.

Dismasted

DISMASTED, participle passive Deprived of a mast or masts.

Dismasting

DISMASTING, participle present tense Stripping of masts.

Dismastment

DISMASTMENT, noun The act of dismasting; the state of being dismasted.

Dismay

DISMAY, verb transitive To deprive of that strength or firmness of mind which constitutes courage; to discourage; to dishearten; to sink or depress the spirits or resolution; hence, to affright or terrify.

Be strong, and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed. Joshua 1:9.

DISMAY, noun Fall or loss of courage; a sinking of the spirits; depression; dejection; a yielding to fear; that loss of firmness which is effected by fear or terror; fear impressed; terror felt.

And each in others countenance read his own dismay

Dismayed

DISMAYED, participle passive Disheartened; deprived of courage.

Dismayedness

DISMAYEDNESS, noun A state of being dismayed; dejection of courage; dispiritedness. [A useless word, and not used.]

Dismaying

DISMAYING, participle present tense Depriving of courage.

Disme

DISME, DIME, noun A tenth part; a tithe.

Dismember

DISMEMBER, verb transitive [dis and member.]

1. To divide limb from limb; to separate a member from the body; to tear or cut in pieces; to dilacerate; to mutilate.

Fowls obscene dismembered his remains.

2. To separate a part from the main body; to divide; to sever; as, to dismember an empire, kingdom or republic. Poland was dismembered by the neighboring powers.

Dismembered

DISMEMBERED, participle passive Divided member from member; torn or cut in pieces; divided by the separation of a part from the main body.

Dismembering

DISMEMBERING, participle present tense Separating a limb or limbs from the body; dividing by taking a part or parts from the body.

DISMEMBERING, noun Mutilation.

Dismemberment

DISMEMBERMENT, noun The act of severing a limb or limbs from the body; the act of tearing or cutting in pieces; mutilation; the act of severing a part from the main body; division; separation.

He pointed out the danger of a dismemberment of the republic.

Dismettled

DISMETTLED, adjective Destitute of fire or spirit. [Not much used.]

Dismiss

DISMISS, verb transitive [Latin]

1. To send away; properly, to give leave of departure; to permit to depart; implying authority in a person to retain or keep. The town clerk dismissed the assembly.

2. To discard; to remove from office, service or employment. The king dismisses his ministers; the master dismisses his servant; and the employer, his workmen. Officers are dismissed from service, and students from college.

3. To send; to dispatch.

He dismissed embassadors from Pekin to Tooshoo Loomboo. [Improper.]

4. To send or remove from a docket; to discontinue; as, to dismiss a bill in chancery.

DISMISS, noun Discharge; dismission. [Not used.]

Dismissal

DISMISSAL, noun Dismission.

Dismissed

DISMISSED, participle passive Sent away; permitted to depart; removed from office or employment.

Dismissing

DISMISSING, participle present tense Sending away; giving leave to depart; removing from office or service.

Dismission

DISMISSION, noun [Latin]

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 honor or disgrace.

3. An act requiring departure. [Not usual.]

4. Removal of a suit in equity.

Dismissive

DISMISSIVE, adjective Giving dismission.

Dismortgage

DISMORTGAGE, verb transitive dismorgage. To redeem from mortgage.

Dismount

DISMOUNT, verb intransitive [dis and mount.]

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.

DISMOUNT, verb transitive

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.

3. To throw or remove cannon or other artillery from their carriages; or to break the carriages or wheels, and render guns useless.

Dismounted

DISMOUNTED, participle passive

1. Thrown from a horse, or from an elevation; unhorsed, or removed from horses by order; as dismounted troops. Applied to horses, it signifies unfit for service.

2. Thrown or removed from carriages.

Dismounting

DISMOUNTING, participle present tense Throwing from a horse; unhorsing; removing from an elevation; throwing or removing from carriages.

Disnaturalize

DISNATURALIZE, verb transitive To make alien; to deprive of the privileges of birth.

Disnatured

DISNATURED, adjective Deprived or destitute of natural feelings; unnatural.

Disobedience

DISOBEDIENCE, noun [dis 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.

By one mans disobedience many were made sinners. Romans 5:19.

2. Non-compliance.

This disobedience of the moon.

Disobedient

DISOBEDIENT, adjective

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 26:19.

2. Not yielding to exciting force or power.

Medicines used unnecessarily contribute to shorten life, by sooner rendering peculiar parts of the system disobedient to stimuli.

Disobey

DISOBEY, verb transitive [dis and obey.] To neglect or refuse to obey; to omit or refuse to do what is commanded, or to do what is forbid; to transgress or violate an order or injunction. Refractory children disobey their parents; men disobey their maker and the laws; and we all disobey the precepts of the gospel. [The word is applicable both to the command and to the person commanding.]

Disobeyed

DISOBEYED, participle passive Not obeyed; neglected; transgressed.

Disobeying

DISOBEYING, participle present tense Omitting or refusing to obey; violating; transgressing, as authority or law.

Disobligation

DISOBLIGATION, noun [dis and obligation.] The act of disobliging; an offense; cause of disgust.

Disobligatory

DISOBLIGATORY, adjective Releasing obligation.

Disoblige

DISOBLIGE, verb transitive [dis and oblige.]

1. 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; a term by which offense is tenderly expressed.

My plan has given offense to some gentlemen, whom it would not be very safe to disoblige

2. To release from obligation. [Not used.]

Disobliged

DISOBLIGED, participle passive Offended; slightly injured.

Disobligement

DISOBLIGEMENT, noun The act of disobliging.

Disobliger

DISOBLIGER, noun One who disobliges.

Disobliging

DISOBLIGING, participle present tense

1. Offending; contravening the wishes of; injuring slightly.

2. adjective Not obliging; not disposed to gratify the wishes of another; not disposed to please; unkind; offensive; unpleasing; unaccommodating; as a disobliging coachman.

Disobligingly

DISOBLIGINGLY, adverb In a disobliging manner; offensively.

Disobligingness

DISOBLIGINGNESS, noun Offensiveness; disposition to displease, or want of readiness to please.

Disopinion

DISOPINION, noun Difference of opinion. [A bad word and not used.]

Disorbed

DISORBED, adjective [dis and orb.] Thrown out of the proper orbit; as a star disorbed

Disorder

DISORDER, noun [dis and order.]

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.

3. Neglect of rule; irregularity.

From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, and snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.

4. Breach of laws; violation of standing rules, or institutions.

5. Irregularity, disturbance or interruption of the functions of the animal economy; disease; distemper; sickness. [See Disease.] disorder however is more frequently used to express a slight disease.

6. Discomposure of the mind; turbulence of passions.

7. Irregularity in the functions of the brain; derangement of the intellect or reason.

DISORDER, verb transitive

1. To break order; to derange; to disturb any regular disposition or arrangement of things; to put out of method; to throw into confusion; to confuse; applicable to every thing susceptible of order.

2. To disturb or interrupt the natural functions of the animal economy; to produce sickness or indisposition; as, to disorder the head or stomach.

3. To discompose or disturb the mind; to ruffle.

4. To disturb the regular operations of reason; to derange; as, the mans reason is disordered.

5. To depose from holy orders. [Unusual.]

Disordered

DISORDERED, participle passive Put out of order; derranged; disturbed; discomposed; confused; sick; indisposed.

DISORDERED, adjective Disorderly; irregular; vicious; loose; unrestrained in behavior.

Disorderedness

DISORDEREDNESS, noun A state of disorder or irregularity; confusion.

Disorderly

DISORDERLY, adjective Confused; immethodical; irregular; being without proper order or disposition; as, the books and papers are in a disorderly state.

2. Tumultuous; irregular; as the disorderly motions of the spirits.

3. Lawless; contrary to law; violating or disposed to violate law and good order; as disorderly people; disorderly assemblies.

4. Inclined to break loose from restraint; unruly; as disorderly cattle.

DISORDERLY, adverb

1. Without order, rule or method; irregularly; confusedly; in a disorderly manner.

Savages fighting disorderly with stones.

2. In a manner violating law and good order; in a manner contrary to rules or established institutions.

Withdraw from every brother that walketh disorderly 2 Thessalonians 3:6.

Disordinate

DISORDINATE, adjective Disorderly; living irregularly.

Disordinately

DISORDINATELY, adverb Inordinately; irregularly; viciously.

Disorganization

DISORGANIZATION, noun [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. We speak of the disorganization of the body, or of government, or of society, or of an army.

Disorganize

DISORGANIZE, verb transitive [dis and organize. See Organ.] To break or destroy organic structure or connected system; to dissolve regular system or union or parts; as, to disorganize a government or society; to disorganize an army.

Every account of the settlement of Plymouth mentions the conduct of Lyford, who attempted to disorganize the church.

Disorganized

DISORGANIZED, participle passive Reduced to disorder; being in a confused state.

Disorganizer

DISORGANIZER, noun One who disorganizes; one who destroys or attempts to interrupt regular order or system; one who introduces disorder and confusion.

Disorganizing

DISORGANIZING, participle present tense

1. Destroying regular and connected system; throwing into confusion.

2. adjective Disposed or tending to disorganize; as a disorganizing spirit.

Disown

DISOWN, verb transitive [dis and own.]

1. To deny; not to own; to refuse to acknowledge as belonging to ones self. A parent and hardly disown his child. An author will sometimes disown his writings.

2. To deny; not to allow.

To disown a brothers better claim.

Disowned

DISOWNED, participle passive Not owned; not acknowledged as ones own; denied; disallowed.

Disowning

DISOWNING, participle present tense Not owning; denying; disallowing.

Disoxydate

DISOXYDATE, verb transitive [dis and oxydate.] To reduce from oxydation; to reduce from the state of an oxyd, by disengaging oxygen from a substance; as, to disoxydate iron or copper.

Disoxydated

DISOXYDATED, participle passive Reduced from the state of an oxyd.

Disoxydating

DISOXYDATING, participle present tense Reducing from the state of an oxyd.

Disoxydation

DISOXYDATION, noun The act or process of freeing from oxygen and reducing from the state of an oxyd. [This word seems to be preferable to deoxydate.]

Disoxygenate

DISOXYGENATE, verb transitive [dis and oxygenate.] To deprive of oxygen.

Disoxygenated

DISOXYGENATED, participle passive Freed from oxygen.

Disoxygenating

DISOXYGENATING, participle present tense Freeing from oxygen.

Disoxygenation

DISOXYGENATION, noun The act or process of separating oxygen from any substance containing it.

Dispace

DISPACE, verb intransitive [dis and spatior, Latin ] To range about.

Dispair

DISPAIR, verb transitive [dis and pair.] To separate a pair or couple.

Dispand

DISPAND, verb transitive [Latin] To display. [Not in use.]

Dispansion

DISPANSION, noun The act of spreading or displaying. [Not in use.]

Disparadised

DISPARADISED, adjective [dis and paradise.] Removed from paradise.

Disparage

DISPARAGE, verb transitive

1. To marry one to another of inferior condition or rank; to dishonor by an unequal match or marriage, against the rules of decency.

2. To match unequally; to injure or dishonor by union with something of inferior excellence.

3. To injure or dishonor by a comparison with something of less value or excellence.

4. To treat with contempt; to undervalue; to lower in rank or estimation; to vilify; to bring reproach on; to reproach; to debase by words or actions; to dishonor.

Thou durst not thus disparage glorious arms.

Disparaged

DISPARAGED, participle passive Married to one beneath his or her condition; unequally matched; dishonored or injured by comparison with something inferior; undervalued; vilified; debased; reproached.

Disparagement

DISPARAGEMENT, noun

1. The matching of a man or woman to one of inferior rank or condition, and against the rule of decency.

2. Injury by union or comparison with something of inferior excellence.

3. Diminution of value or excellence; reproach; disgrace; indignity; dishonor; followed by to.

It ought to be no disparagement to a stat that it is not the sun.

To be a humble Christian is not disparagement to a prince, or a nobleman.

Disparager

DISPARAGER, noun One who disparages or dishonors; one who vilifies or disgraces.

Disparaging

DISPARAGING, participle present tense Marrying one to another of inferior condition; dishonoring by an unequal union or comparison; disgracing; dishonoring.

Disparagingly

DISPARAGINGLY, adverb In a manner to disparage or dishonor.

Disparate

DISPARATE, adjective [Latin , equal.] Unequal; unlike; dissimilar.

Disparates

DISPARATES, noun plural Things so unequal or unlike that they cannot be compared with each other.

Disparity

DISPARITY, noun [Latin]

1. Irregularity; difference in degree, in age, rank, condition or excellence; as a disparity of year or of age; disparity of condition or circumstances; followed by of or in. We say, disparity in or of years.

2. Dissimilitude; unlikeness.

Dispark

DISPARK, verb transitive [dis and park.]

1. To throw open a park; to lay open.

2. To set at large; to release from inclosure or confinement.

Dispart

DISPART, verb transitive [dis and part. Latin See Part. Dis and part both imply separation.] To part asunder; to divide; to separate; to sever; to burst; to rend; to rive or split; as disparted air; disparted towers; disparted chaos. [An elegant poetic word.]

DISPART, verb intransitive To separate; to open; to cleave.

DISPART, noun In gunnery, the thickness of the metal of a piece of ordnance at the mouth and britch.

DISPART, verb transitive In gunnery, 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 bore or hollow cylinder.

Disparted

DISPARTED, participle passive Divided; separated; parted; rent asunder.

Disparting

DISPARTING, participle present tense Severing; dividing; bursting; cleaving.

Dispassion

DISPASSION, noun [dis and passion.] Freedom from passion; an undisturbed state of the mind; apathy.

Dispassionate

DISPASSIONATE, adjective

1. Free from passion; calm; composed; impartial; moderate; temperate; unmoved by feelings; applied to persons; as dispassionate men or judges.

2. Not dictated by passion; not proceeding from temper or bias; impartial; applied to things; as dispassionate proceedings.

Dispassionately

DISPASSIONATELY, adverb Without passion; calmly; coolly.

Dispatch

DISPATCH, verb transitive [Latin]

1. To send or send away; particularly applied to the sending of messengers, agents and letters on special business, and often implying haste. The king dispatched and envoy to the court of Madrid. He dispatched a messenger to his envoy in France. He dispatched orders or letters to the commander of the forces in Spain. The president dispatched a special envoy to the court of St. James in 1794.

2. To send out of the world; to put to death.

The company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords. Ezekiel 23:47.

3. To perform; to execute speedily; to finish; as, the business was dispatched in due time.

DISPATCH, verb intransitive To conclude an affair with another; to transact and finish. [Not now used.]

They have dispatched with Pompey.

DISPATCH, noun

1. Speedy performance; execution or transaction of business with due diligence.

2. Speed; haste; expedition; due diligence; as, the business was done with dispatch; go, but make dispatch

3. Conduct; management. [Not used.]

4. A letter sent or to be sent with expedition, by a messenger express; or a letter on some affair of state, or of public concern; or a packet of letters, sent by some public officer, on public business. It is often used in the plural. A vessel or a messenger has arrived with dispatches for the American minister. A dispatch was immediately sent to the admiral. The secretary was preparing his dispatches.

Dispatched

DISPATCHED, participle passive Sent with haste or by a courier express; sent out of the world; put to death; performed; finished.

Dispatcher

DISPATCHER, noun

1. One that dispatches; one that kills.

2. One that sends on a special errand.

Dispatchful

DISPATCHFUL, adjective Bent on haste; indicating haste; intent on speedy execution of business; as dispatchful looks.

Dispatching

DISPATCHING, participle present tense Sending away in haste; putting to death; executing; finishing.

Dispauper

DISPAUPER, verb transitive [dis 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.

A man is dispaupered, when he has lands fallen to him or property given him.

Dispel

DISPEL, verb transitive [Latin , to drive., Gr. See Appeal, Peal, Pulse and Bawl.] To scatter by driving or force; to disperse; to dissipate; to banish; as, to dispel vapors; to dispel darkness or gloom; to dispel fears; to dispel cares or sorrows; to dispel doubts.

Dispelled

DISPELLED, participle passive Driven away; scattered; dissipated.

Dispelling

DISPELLING, participle present tense Driving away; dispersing; scattering.

Dispend

DISPEND, verb transitive [Latin , to weigh.] To spend; to lay out; to consume. [See Expend, which is generally used.]

Dispender

DISPENDER, noun One that distributes.

Dispensable

DISPENSABLE, adjective That may be dispensed with.

Dispensableness

DISPENSABLENESS, noun The capability of being dispensed with.

Dispensary

DISPENSARY, noun A house, place or store, in which medicines are dispensed to the poor, and medical advice given, gratis.

Dispensation

DISPENSATION, noun [Latin See Dispense.]

1. Distribution; the act of dealing out to different persons or places; as the dispensation of water indifferently to all parts of the earth.

2. The dealing of God to his creatures; the distribution of good and evil, natural or moral, in the divine government.

Neither are Gods methods or intentions different in his dispensations to each private man.

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.

A dispensation was obtained to enable Dr. Barrow to marry.

4. That which is dispensed or bestowed; a system of principles and rites 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

DISPENSATIVE, adjective Granting dispensation.

Dispensatively

DISPENSATIVELY, adverb By dispensation.

Dispensatory

DISPENSATORY, noun [Latin] One whose employment is to deal out or distribute; a distributor; a dispenser; the latter word is generally used.

DISPENSATORY, adjective Having power to grant dispensations.

DISPENSATORY, noun 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.

Dispense

DISPENSE, verb transitive dispens. [Latin , to weigh, primarily to move; and perhaps the original idea of expending was to weigh off, or to distribute by weight.]

1. To deal or divide out in parts or portions; to distribute. The steward dispenses provisions to every man, according to his directions. The society dispenses medicines to the poor gratuitously or at first cost. God dispenses his favors according to his good pleasure.

2. To administer; to apply, as laws to particular cases; to distribute justice.

While you dispense the laws and guide the state.

To dispense with,

1. To permit not to take effect; to neglect or pass by; to suspend the operation or application of something required, established or customary; as, to dispense with the law, in favor of a friend; I cannot dispense with the conditions of the covenant. So we say, to dispense with oaths; to dispense with forms and ceremonies.

2. To excuse from; to give leave not to do or observe what is required or commanded. The court will dispense with your attendance, or with you compliance.

3. To permit the want of a thing which is useful or convenient; or in the vulgar phrase, to do without. I can dispense with your services. I can dispense with my cloke. In this application, the phrase has an allusion to the requisitions of law or necessity; the thing dispensed with being supposed, in some degree, necessary or required.

I could not dispense with myself from making a voyage to Caprea. [Not to be imitated.]

Canst thou dispense with heaven for such an oath? [Not legitimate.]

DISPENSE, noun Dispens.

1. Dispensation. [Not used.]

2. Expense; profusion. [Not in use.]

Dispensed

DISPENSED, participle passive Distributed; administered.

Dispenser

DISPENSER, noun One who dispenses; one who distributes; one who administers; as a dispenser of favors or of the laws.

Dispensing

DISPENSING, participle present tense

1. Distributing; administering.

2. adjective 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.

DISPEOPLE, verb transitive [dis and people.] To depopulate; to empty of inhabitants, as by destruction, expulsion or other means.

Dispeopled

DISPEOPLED, participle passive Depopulated; deprived of inhabitants.

Dispeopler

DISPEOPLER, noun One who depopulates; a depopulator; that which deprives of inhabitants.

Dispeopling

DISPEOPLING, participle present tense Depopulating.

Disperge

DISPERGE, verb transitive disperj. [Latin] To sprinkle. [Not in use.]

Dispermous

DISPERMOUS, adjective [Gr., seed.] In botany, two-seeded; containing two seeds only; as, umbellate and stellate plants are dispermous

Disperse

DISPERSE, verb transitive dispers. [Latin , to scatter.]

1. To scatter; to drive asunder; to cause to separate into different parts; as, the Jews are dispersed among all nations.

2. To diffuse; to spread.

The lips of the wise disperse knowledge. Proverbs 15:7.

3. To dissipate; as, the fog or the cloud is dispersed.

4. To distribute.

DISPERSE, verb intransitive dispers.

1. To be scattered; to separate; to go or move into different parts; as, the company dispersed at ten oclock.

2. To be scattered; to vanish; as fog or vapors.

Dispersed

DISPERSED, participle passive Scattered; driven apart; diffused; dissipated.

Dispersedlyb

DISPERSEDLYB, adverb In a dispersed manner; separately.

Dispersedness

DISPERSEDNESS, noun The state of being dispersed or scattered.

Disperseness

DISPERSENESS, noun Thinness; a scattered state. [Little used.]

Disperser

DISPERSER, noun One who disperses; as the disperser of libels.

Dispersing

DISPERSING, participle present tense Scattering; dissipating.

Dispersion

DISPERSION, noun

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.

3. By way of eminence, the scattering or separation of the human family, at the building of Babel.

4. In optics, the divergency of the rays of light, or rather the separation of the different colored rays, in refraction, arising from their different refrangibilities. The point of dispersion , is the point where refracted rays begin to diverge.

5. In medicine and surgery, the removing of inflammation from a part, and restoring it to its natural state.

Dispersive

DISPERSIVE, adjective Tending to scatter or dissipate.

Dispirit

DISPIRIT, verb transitive [dis and spirit.]

1. To depress the spirits; to deprive of courage; to discourage; to dishearten; to deject; to cast down. We may be dispirited by afflictions, by obstacles to success, by poverty, and by fear. When fear is the cause, dispirit is nearly equivalent to intimidate or terrify.

2. To exhaust the spirits or vigor of the body. [Not usual.]

Dispirited

DISPIRITED, participle passive Discourage; depressed in spirits; dejected; intimidated.

Dispiritedness

DISPIRITEDNESS, noun Want of courage; depression of spirits.

Dispiriting

DISPIRITING, participle present tense Discouraging; disheartening; dejecting; intimidating.

Dispiteous

DISPITEOUS, adjective Having no pity; cruel; furious. [Not used.]

Displace

DISPLACE, verb transitive [dis and place.]

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.

3. To disorder.

You have displaced the mirth.

Displaced

DISPLACED, participle passive Removed from the proper place; deranged; disordered; removed from an office or state.

Displacement

DISPLACEMENT, noun 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 centers of the circles.

Unnecessary displacement of funds.

Displacency

DISPLACENCY, noun [Latin , to displease.; to please.] Incivility; that which displeases or disobliges.

Displacing

DISPLACING, participle present tense Putting out of the usual or proper place; removing from an office, state or condition.

Displant

DISPLANT, verb transitive [dis and plant.]

1. To pluck up or to remove a plant.

2. To drive away or remove from the usual place of residence; as, to displant the people of a country.

3. To strip of inhabitants; as, to displant a country.

Displantation

DISPLANTATION, noun

1. The removal of a plant.

2. The removal of inhabitants or residents people.

Displanted

DISPLANTED, participle passive

1. Removed from the place where it grew, as a plant.

2. Removed from the place of residence; applied to persons.

3. Deprived of inhabitants; applied to a country.

Displanting

DISPLANTING, participle present tense Removing, as a plant.

DISPLANTING, noun Removal from a fixed place.

Displat

DISPLAT, verb transitive [dis and plat.] To untwist; to uncurl.

Display

DISPLAY, verb transitive [Latin , gr., to unfold.]

1. Literally, to unfold; hence, to open; to spread wide; to expand.

The northern wind his wings did broad display

2. To spread before the view; to show; to exhibit to the eyes, or to the mind; to make manifest. The works of nature display the power and wisdom of the Supreme Being. Christian charity displays the effects of true piety. A dress, simple and elegant, displays female taste and beauty to advantage.

3. To carve; to dissect and open.

He carves, displays, and cuts up to a wonder.

4. To set to view ostentatiously.

5. To discover. [Not in use.]

6. To open; to unlock. [Not used.]

DISPLAY, noun

1. An opening or unfolding; an exhibition of any thing to the view.

2. Show; exhibition; as, they make a great display of troops; a great display of magnificence.

Displayed

DISPLAYED, participle passive Unfolded; opened; spread; expanded; exhibited to view; manifested.

Displayer

DISPLAYER, noun He or that which displays.

Displaying

DISPLAYING, participle present tense Unfolding; spreading; exhibiting; manifesting.

Displeasance

DISPLEASANCE, noun Anger; discontent. [Not used.]

Displeasant

DISPLEASANT, adjective Displezant. [See Displease.] Unpleasing; offensive; unpleasant. [The latter word is generally used.]

Displease

DISPLEASE, verb transitive displeze. [dis and please.]

1. To offend; to make angry, sometimes in a slight degree. It usually expresses less than anger, vex, irritate and provoke. Applied to the Almighty in scripture, it may be considered as equivalent to anger.

God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel. 1 Chronicles 21:7.

2. To disgust; to excite aversion in; as, acrid and rancid substances displease the taste.

3. To offend; to be disagreeable to. A distorted figure displeases the eye.

Displeased

DISPLEASED, participle passive Offended; disgusted.

Displeasedness

DISPLEASEDNESS, noun Displeasure; uneasiness.

Displeasing

DISPLEASING, ppr or adjective Offensive to the eye, to the mind, to the smell, or to the taste; disgusting; disagreeable.

Displeasingness

DISPLEASINGNESS, noun Offensiveness; the quality of giving some degree of disgust.

Displeasure

DISPLEASURE, noun Displezhur.

1. Some irritation or uneasiness of the mind, occasioned by any thing that counteracts desire or command, or which opposes justice and a sense of propriety. A man incurs the displeasure of another by thwarting his views or schemes; a servant incurs the displeasure of his master by neglect or disobedience; we experience displeasure at any violation of right or decorum. displeasure is anger, but it may be slight anger. It implies disaprobation or hatred, and usually expresses less than vexation and indignation. Thus, slighter offenses give displeasure although they may not excite a violent passion.

2. Offense; cause of irritation.

Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure Judges 15:3.

3. State of disgrace or disfavor.

He went into Poland, being in displeasure with the pope for overmuch familiarity.

DISPLEASURE, verb transitive To displease. [An unnecessary word, and not used.]

Displicence

DISPLICENCE, noun [Latin] Dislike. [Not in use.]

Displode

DISPLODE, verb transitive [Latin , to break forth.] To vent, discharge or burst with a violent sound.

In posture to displode their second tire of thunder.

DISPLODE, verb intransitive To burst with a loud report; to explode; as, a meteor diploded with a tremendous sound.

Disploded

DISPLODED, participle passive Discharged with a loud report.

Disploding

DISPLODING, participle present tense Discharging or bursting with a loud report; an explosion.

Displosive

DISPLOSIVE, adjective Noting displosion.

Displume

DISPLUME, verb transitive [dis and plume.] To strip or deprive of plumes or feathers; to strip of badges of honor.

Displumed

DISPLUMED, participle passive Stripped of plumes.

Displuming

DISPLUMING, participle present tense Depriving of plumes.

Dispondee

DISPONDEE, noun In Greek and Latin poetry, a double spondee, consisting of four long syllables.

Disport

DISPORT, noun [dis and sport.] Play; sport; pastime; diversion; amusement; merriment.

DISPORT, verb intransitive To play; to wanton; to move lightly and without restraint; to move in gayety; as lambs disporting on the mead..

Where light disports in ever mingling dyes.

DISPORT, verb transitive To divert or amuse; as, he disports himself.

Disporting

DISPORTING, participle present tense Playing; wantoning.

Disposable

DISPOSABLE, adjective [See Dispose.] Subject to disposal; not previously engaged or employed; free to be used or employed as occasion may require.

The whole disposable force consisted in a regiment of light infantry, and a troop of calvary.

Disposal

DISPOSAL, noun [See Dispose.]

1. The act of disposing; a setting or arranging.

This object was effected by the disposal of the troops in two lines.

2. Regulation, order or arrangement of things, int he moral government of God; dispensation.

Tax not divine disposal

3. Power of ordering, arranging or distributing; government; management; as, an agent is appointed, and every thing is left to his disposal The effects in my hands are entirely at my disposal

4. Power or right of bestowing. Certain offices are at the disposal of the president. The father has the disposal of his daughter in marriage.

5. The passing into a new state or into new hands.

Dispose

DISPOSE, verb transitive dispoze. [Latin]

1. To set; to place or distribute; to arrange; used with reference to order. The ships were disposed in the form of a crescent. The general disposed his troops in three lines. The trees are disposed in the form of a quincunx.

2. To regulate; to adjust; to set in right order. Job 34:13 and 37.

The knightly forms of combat to dispose

3. To apply to a particular purpose; to give; to place; to bestow; as, you have disposed much in works of public piety. In this sense, to dispose of is more generally used.

4. To set, place or turn to a particular end or consequence.

Endure and conquer; Jove will soon dispose to future good our past and present woes.

5. To adapt; to form for any purpose.

Then must thou thee dispose another way.

6. To set the mind in a particular frame; to incline. Avarice disposes men to fraud and oppression.

Suspicions dispose kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, and wise men to irresolution and melancholy.

He was disposed to pass into Achaia. Acts 18:27. 1 Corinthians 10:27.

To dispose of,

1. To part with; to alienate; as, the man has disposed of his house, and removed.

2. To part with to another; to put into anothers hand or power; to bestow; as, the father has disposed of his daughter to a man of great worth.

3. To give away or transfer by authority.

A rural judge disposed of beautys prize.

4. To direct the course of a thing. Proverbs 16:1.

5. To place in any condition; as, how will you dispose of your son?

6. To direct what to do or what course to pursue; as, they know not how to dispose of themselves.

7. To use or employ; as, they know not how to dispose of their time.

8. To put away. The stream supplies more water than can be disposed of.

DISPOSE, verb intransitive To bargain; to make terms.

DISPOSE, noun

1. Disposal; power of disposing; management.

2. Dispensation; act of government.

3. Disposition; cast of behavior.

4. Disposition; cast of mind; inclination.

Disposed

DISPOSED, participle passive Set in order; arranged; placed; adjusted; applied; bestowed; inclined.

Disposer

DISPOSER, noun

1. One who disposes; a distributor; a bestower; as a disposer of gifts.

2. A director; a regulator.

The Supreme Being is the rightful disposer of all events, and of all creatures.

3. That which disposes.