Disposing – Dissunder

Disposing

DISPOSING, participle present tense Setting in order; arranging; distributing; bestowing; regulating; adjusting; governing.

DISPOSING, noun The act of arranging; regulation; direction. Proverbs 16:33.

Disposition

DISPOSITION, noun [Latin]

1. The act of disposing, or state of being disposed.

2. Manner in which things or the parts of a complex body are placed or arranged; order; method; distribution; arrangement. We speak of the disposition of the infantry and cavalry of an army; the disposition of the trees in an orchard; the disposition of the several parts of an edifice, of the parts of a discourse, or of the figures in painting.

3. Natural fitness or tendency. The refrangibility of the rays of light is their disposition to be refracted. So we say, a disposition in plants to grow in a direction upwards; a disposition in bodies to putrefaction.

4. Temper or natural constitution of the mind; as an amiable or an irritable disposition

5. Inclination; propensity; the temper or frame of mind, as directed to particular objects. We speak of the disposition of a person to undertake a particular work; the dispositions of men towards each other; a disposition friendly to any design.

6. Disposal; alienation; distribution; a giving away or giving over to another; as, he has made disposition of his effects; he has satisfied his friends by the judicious disposition of his property.

Dispositive

DISPOSITIVE, adjective That implies disposal. [Not used.]

Dispositively

DISPOSITIVELY, adverb In a dispositive manner; distributively. [Not used.]

Dispositor

DISPOSITOR, noun A disposer; in astrology, the planet which is lord of the sign where another planet is. [Not used.]

Dispossess

DISPOSSESS, verb transitive [dis and possess.] To put out of possession, by any means; to deprive of the actual occupancy of a thing, particularly of land or real estate; to deseize.

Ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein. Numbers 33:53.

Usually followed by of, before the thing taken away; as, to dispossess a king of his crown.

Dispossessed

DISPOSSESSED, participle passive Deprived of possession or occupancy.

Dispossessing

DISPOSSESSING, participle present tense Depriving of possession; disseizing.

Dispossession

DISPOSSESSION, noun The act of putting out of possession.

Disposure

DISPOSURE, noun Dispozhur. [See Dispose.]

1. Disposal; the power of disposeing; management; direction. [The use of this word is superseded by that of disposal.]

2. State; posture; disposition. [Not used.]

Dispraise

DISPRAISE, noun Dispraze. [dis and praise.]

1. Blame; censure. Be cautious not to speak in dispraise of a competitor.

2. Reproach; dishonor.

The general has seen Moors with as bad faces; no dispraise to Bertrans.

DISPRAISE, verb transitive To blame; to censure; to mention with disapprobation, or some degree of reproach.

I dispraised him before the wicked.

Dispraised

DISPRAISED, participle passive Blamed; censured.

Dispraiser

DISPRAISER, noun One who blames or dispraises.

Dispraising

DISPRAISING, participle present tense Blaming; censuring.

Dispraisingly

DISPRAISINGLY, adverb By way of dispraise; with blame or some degree of reproach.

Dispread

DISPREAD, verb transitive dispred. [dis and spread. See Spread.] To spread in different ways; to extend or flow in different directions.

DISPREAD, verb intransitive To expand or be extended.

Dispreader

DISPREADER, noun A publisher; a divulger.

Disprize

DISPRIZE, verb transitive To undervalue.

Disprofess

DISPROFESS, verb intransitive To renounce the profession of.

Disprofit

DISPROFIT, noun [dis and profit.] Loss; detriment; damage. [Little used.]

Disproof

DISPROOF, noun [dis and proof.] Confutation; refutation; a proving to be false or erroneous; as, to offer evidence in disproof of a fact, argument, principle or allegation.

Disproperty

DISPROPERTY, verb transitive To deprive of property; to dispossess. [Not used.]

Disproportion

DISPROPORTION, noun [dis and proportion.]

1. Want of proportion of one thing to another, or between the parts of thing; want of symmetry. We speak of the disproportion of a mans arms to his body; of the disproportion of the length of an edifice to its highth.

2. Want of proper quantity, according to rules prescribed; as, the disproportion of the ingredients in a compound.

3. Want of suitableness or adequacy; disparity; inequality; unsuitableness; as the disproportion of strength or means to an object.

DISPROPORTION, verb transitive To make unsuitable in form, size, length or quantity; to violate symmetry in; to mismatch; to join unfitly.

To shape my legs of an unequal size, to disproportion me in every part.

Disproportionable

DISPROPORTIONABLE, adjective Disproportional; not in proportion; unsuitable in form, size or quantity to something else; inadequate. [Note. The sense in which this word is used is generally anomalous. In its true sense, that may be made disproportional, it is rarely or never used. The regular word which ought to be used is disproportional, as used by Locke.]

Disproportionablen

DISPROPORTIONABLENESS, noun Want of proportion or symmetry; unsuitableness to something else.

Disproportionably

DISPROPORTIONABLY, adverb With want of proportion or symmetry; unsuitably to something else.

Disproportional

DISPROPORTIONAL, adjective Not having due proportion to something else; not having proportion or symmetry of parts; unsuitable in form or quantity; unequal; inadequate. A disproportional limb constitutes deformity in the body. The studies of youth should not be disproportional to their capacities. [This is the word which ought to be used for disproportionable.]

Disproportionality

DISPROPORTIONALITY, noun The state of being disproportional.

Disproportionally

DISPROPORTIONALLY, adverb Unsuitably with respect to form, quantity or value; inadequately; unequally.

Disproportionate

DISPROPORTIONATE, adjective Not proportioned; unsymmetrical; unsuitable to something else, in bulk, from or value; inadequate. In a perfect form of the body, none of the limbs are disproportionate It is wisdom not to undertake a work with disproportionate means.

Disproportionately

DISPROPORTIONATELY, adverb In a disproportionate degree; unsuitably; inadequately.

DISPROPORTIONATENESS, noun Unsuitableness in form, bulk or value; inadequacy.

Disproportionatene

DISPROPORTIONATENESS, noun Unsuitably with respect to form, quantity or value; inadequately; unequally.

DISPROPORTIONATE, adjective Not proportioned; unsymmetrical; unsuitable to something else, in bulk, form or value; inadequate. In a perfect form of the body, none of the limbs are disproportionate. It is wisdom not to undertake a work with disproportionate means.

Dispropriate

DISPROPRIATE, verb transitive To destroy appropriation; to withdraw from an appropriate use.

[See Disappropriate, which is more regularly formed, and more generally used.]

Disprovable

DISPROVABLE, adjective Capable of being disproved or refuted.

Disprove

DISPROVE, verb transitive [dis and prove.]

1. To prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; as, to disprove an assertion, a statement, an argument, a proposition.

2. To convict of the practice of error. [Not in use.]

3. To disallow or disapprove. [Not in use.]

Disproved

DISPROVED, participle passive Proved to be false or erroneous; refuted.

Disprover

DISPROVER, noun One that disproves or confutes.

Disproving

DISPROVING, participle present tense Proving to be false or erroneous; confuting; refuting.

Dispunge

DISPUNGE, verb transitive [dis and spunge.] To expunge; to erase; also, to discharge as from a spunge. [Il formed and little used.]

Dispunishable

DISPUNISHABLE, adjective [dis and punishable.] Without penal restraint; not punishable.

Dispurse

DISPURSE, for disburse. [Not in use.]

Dispurvey

DISPURVEY, verb transitive To unprovide. [Not in use.]

Dispurveyance

DISPURVEYANCE, noun Want of provisions. [Not in use.]

Disputable

DISPUTABLE, adjective [See Dispute.] That may be disputed; liable to be called in question, controverted or contested; controvertible; of doubtful certainty. We speak of disputable opinions, statements, propositions, arguments, points, cases, questions, etc.

Disputant

DISPUTANT, noun One who disputes; one who argues in opposition to another; a controvertist; a reasoner in opposition.

DISPUTANT, adjective Disputing; engaged in controversy.

Disputation

DISPUTATION, noun [Latin]

1. The act of disputing; a reasoning or argumentation in opposition to something, or on opposite sides; controversy in words; verbal contest, respecting the truth of some fact, opinion, proposition or argument.

2. An exercise in colleges, in which parties reason in opposition to each other, on some question proposed.

Disputatious

DISPUTATIOUS, adjective Inclined to dispute; apt to cavil or controvert; as a disputatious person or temper.

The Christian doctrine of a future life was no recommendation of the new religion to the wits and philosophers of that disputatious period.

Disputative

DISPUTATIVE, adjective Disposed to dispute; inclined to cavil or to reason in opposition; as a disputative temper.

Dispute

DISPUTE, verb intransitive [Latin dispute is radically very similar to debate and discuss, both of which are from beating, driving, agitation.]

1. To contend in argument; to reason or argue in opposition; to debate; to altercate; and to dispute violently is to wrangle. Paul disputed with the Jews int he synagogue. The disciples of Christ disputed among themselves who should be the greatest. Men often dispute about trifles.

2. To strive or contend in opposition in a competitor; as, we disputed for the prize.

DISPUTE, verb transitive

1. To attempt to disprove by arguments or statements; to attempt to prove to be false, unfounded or erroneous; to controvert; to attempt to overthrow by reasoning. We dispute assertions, opinions, arguments or statements, when we endeavor to prove them false or unfounded. We dispute the validity of a title or claim. Hence to dispute a cause or case with another, is to endeavor to maintain ones own opinions or claims, and to overthrow those of his opponent.

2. To strive or contend for, either by words or actions; as, to dispute the honor of the day; to dispute a prize. But this phrase is elliptical, being used for dispute for, and primarily the verb is intransitive. See the Intransitive Verb, No. 2.

3. To call in question the propriety of; to oppose by reasoning. An officer is never to dispute the orders of his superior.

4. To strive to maintain; as, to dispute every inch of ground.

DISPUTE, noun

1. Strife or contest in words or by arguments; an attempt to prove and maintain ones own opinions or claims, by arguments or statements, in opposition to the opinions, arguments or claims of another; controversy in words. They had a dispute on the lawfulness of slavery, a subject which, one would think, could admit of no dispute

DISPUTE is usually applied to verbal contest; controversy may be in words or writing.

DISPUTE is between individuals; debate and discussion are applicable to public bodies.

2. The possibility of being controverted; as in the phrase, this is a fact, beyond all dispute

Disputed

DISPUTED, participle passive Contested; opposed by words or arguments; litigated.

Disputeless

DISPUTELESS, adjective Admitting no dispute; incontrovertible.

Disputer

DISPUTER, noun One who disputes, or who is given to disputes; a controvertist.

Where is the disputer of this world. 1 Corinthians 1:20.

Disputing

DISPUTING, participle present tense Contending by words or arguments; controverting.

DISPUTING, noun The act of contending by words or arguments; controversy; altercation.

Do all things without murmurings or disputings. Philippians 2:14.

Disqualification

DISQUALIFICATION, noun [See Disqualify.]

1. The act of disqualifying; or that which disqualifies; that which renders unfit, unsuitable or inadequate; as, sickness is a disqualification for labor or study.

2. The act of depriving of legal power or capacity; that which renders incapable; that which incapacitates in law; disability. Conviction of a crime is a disqualification for office.

3. Want of qualification. It is used in this sense, though improperly. In strictness, disqualification implies a previous qualification; but careless writers use it for the want of qualification, where no previous qualification is supposed. Thus, I must still retain the consciousness of those disqualifications, which you have been pleased to overlook.

Disqualified

DISQUALIFIED, participle passive Deprived of qualifications; rendered unfit.

Disqualify

DISQUALIFY, verb transitive [dis and qualify.]

1. To make unfit; to deprive of natural power, or the qualities or properties necessary for any purpose; with for. Indisposition disqualifies the body for labor, and the mind for study. Piety disqualifies a person for no lawful employment.

2. To deprive of legal capacity, power or right; to disable. A conviction of perjury disqualifies a man for a witness. A direct interest in a suit disqualifies a person to be a juror in the cause.

Disqualifying

DISQUALIFYING, participle present tense Rendering unfit; disabling.

Disquantity

DISQUANTITY, verb transitive To diminish. [Not in use.]

Disquiet

DISQUIET, adjective [dis and quiet.] Unquiet; restless; uneasy. [Seldom used.]

DISQUIET, noun Want of quiet; uneasiness; restlessness; want of tranquility in body or mind; disturbance; anxiety.

DISQUIET, verb transitive To disturb; to deprive of peace, rest or tranquility; to make uneasy or restless; to harass the body; to fret or vex the mind.

That he may disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon. Jeremiah 1:1.

Why hast thou disquieted me. 1 Samuel 28:15.

O my soul, why art thou disquieted within me? Psalms 42:5.

Disquieted

DISQUIETED, participle passive Made uneasy or restless; disturbed; harassed.

Disquieter

DISQUIETER, noun One who disquiets; he or that which makes uneasy.

Disquietful

DISQUIETFUL, adjective Producing inquietude.

Disquieting

DISQUIETING, participle present tense

1. Disturbing; making uneasy; depriving of rest or peace.

2. adjective Tending to disturb the mind; as disquieting apprehensions.

Disquietly

DISQUIETLY, adverb Without quiet or rest; in an uneasy state; uneasily; anxiously; as, he rested disquietly that night. [Unusual.]

Disquietness

DISQUIETNESS, noun Uneasiness; restlessness; disturbance of peace in body or mind.

Disquietous

DISQUIETOUS, adjective Causing uneasiness. [Not used.]

Disquietude

DISQUIETUDE, noun Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. It is, I believe, most frequently used of the mind.

Religion is our best security from the disquietudes that embitter life.

Disquisition

DISQUISITION, noun [Latin , to seek.] A formal or systematic inquiry into any subject, by arguments, or discussion of the facts and circumstances that may elucidate truth; as a disquistion on government or morals; a disquistion concerning the antediluvian earth. [It is usually applied to a written treatise.]

Disrank

DISRANK, verb transitive

1. To degrade from rank. [Not used.]

2. To throw out of rank or into confusion.

Disregard

DISREGARD, noun [dis and regard.] Neglect; omission of notice; slight; implying indifference or some degree of contempt; as, to pass one with disregard

DISREGARD, verb transitive To omit to take notice of; to neglect to observe; to slight as unworthy of regard or notice.

Studious of good, man disregarded fame.

We are never to disregard the wants of the poor, nor the admonitions of conscience.

Disregarded

DISREGARDED, participle passive Neglected; slighted; unnoticed.

Disregardful

DISREGARDFUL, adjective Neglectful; negligent; heedless.

Disregardfully

DISREGARDFULLY, adverb Negligently; heedlessly.

Disrelish

DISRELISH, noun [dis and relish.]

1. Distaste; dislike of the palate; some degree of disgust. Men generally have a disrelish for tobacco, till the taste is reconciled to it by custom.

2. Bad taste; nauseousness.

3. Distaste or dislike, in a figurative sense; dislike of the mind, or of the faculty by which beauty and excellence are perceived.

DISRELISH, verb transitive

1. To dislike the taste of; as, to disrelish a particular kind of food.

2. To make nauseous or disgusting; to infect with a bad taste. [In this sense, I believe, the word is little used.]

3. To dislike; to feel some disgust at; as, to disrelish vulgar jests.

Disrelished

DISRELISHED, participle passive Not relished; disliked; made nauseous.

Disrelishing

DISRELISHING, participle present tense Disliking the taste of; experiencing disgust at; rendering nauseous.

Disreputable

DISREPUTABLE, adjective [dis and reputable.]

1. Not reputable; not in esteem; not honorable; low; mean; as disreputable company.

2. Dishonorable; disgracing the reputation; tending to impair the good name, and bring into disesteem. It is disreputable to associate familiarly with the mean, the lewd and the profane.

Disreputation

DISREPUTATION, noun [dis and reputation.] Loss or want of reputation or good name; disrepute; disesteem; dishonor; disgrace; discredity. Ill success often brings an enterprising man, as well as his project, into disreputation

Disrepute

DISREPUTE, noun [dis and repute.] Loss or want of reputation; disesteem; discredit; dishonor. The alchimist and his books have sunk into disrepute

Disrespect

DISRESPECT, noun [dis and respect.]

1. Want of respect or reverence; disesteem. disrespect often leads a man to treat another with neglect or a degree of contempt.

2. As an act, incivility; irreverence; rudeness.

Disrespectful

DISRESPECTFUL, adjective

1. Wanting in respect; irreverent; as a disrespectful thought or opinion.

2. Manifesting disesteem or want of respect; uncivil; as disrespectful behavior.

Disrespectfully

DISRESPECTFULLY, adverb In a disrespectful manner; irreverently; uncivilly.

Disrobe

DISROBE, verb transitive [dis and robe.]

1. To divest of a robe; to divest of garments; to undress.

2. To strip of covering; to divest of any surrounding appendage. Autumn disrobes the fields of verdure.

These two peers were disrobed of their glory.

Disrobed

DISROBED, participle passive Divested of clothing; stripped of covering.

Disrober

DISROBER, noun One that strips of robes or clothing.

Disrobing

DISROBING, participle present tense Divesting of garments; stripping of any kind of covering.

Disroot

DISROOT, verb transitive [dis and root.]

1. To tear up the roots, or by the roots.

2. To tear from a foundation; to loosen or undermine.

A piece of ground disrooted from its situation by subterraneous inundations.

Disrooted

DISROOTED, participle passive Torn up by the roots; undermined.

Disrooting

DISROOTING, participle present tense Tearing up by the roots; undermining.

Disrupt

DISRUPT, adjective [Latin , to burst.] Rent from; torn asunder; severed by rending or breaking.

Disruption

DISRUPTION, noun [Latin]

1. The act of rending asunder; the act of bursting and separating.

2. Breach; rent; dilaceration; as the disruption of rocks in an earthquake; the disruption of a stratum of earth; disruption of the flesh.

Disrupture

DISRUPTURE, verb transitive [dis and rupture.] To rend; to sever by tearing, breaking or bursting. [Unnecessary, as it is synonymous with rupture.]

Disruptured

DISRUPTURED, participle passive Rent asunder; severed by breaking.

Disrupturing

DISRUPTURING, participle present tense Rending asunder; severing.

Dissatisfaction

DISSATISFACTION, noun [dis and satisfaction.] The state of being dissatisfied; discontent; uneasiness proceeding from the want of gratification, or from disappointed wishes and expectations.

The ambitious man is subject to uneasiness and dissatisfaction

Dissatisfactorines

DISSATISFACTORINESS, noun Inability to satisfy or give content; a failing to give content.

Dissatisfactory

DISSATISFACTORY, adjective Unable to give content. Rather, giving discontent; displeasing.

To have reduced the different qualifications, in the different states, to one uniform rule, would probably have been as dissatisfactory to some of the states, as difficult for the convention.

Dissatisfied

DISSATISFIED, participle passive

1. Made discontented; displeased.

2. adjective Discontented; not satisfied; not pleased; offended.

Dissatisfy

DISSATISFY, verb transitive To render discontented; to displease; to excite uneasiness by frustrating wishes or expectations.

Dissatisfying

DISSATISFYING, participle present tense Exciting uneasiness or discontent.

Disseat

DISSEAT, verb transitive To remove from a seat.

Dissect

DISSECT, verb transitive [Latin , to cut.]

1. To cut in pieces; to divide an animal body, with a cutting instrument, by separating the joints; as, to dissect a fowl. Hence appropriately,

2. To cut in pieces, as an animal or vegetable, for the purpose of examining the structure and use of its several parts; to anatomize. Also, to open any part of a body to observe its morbid appearances, or to ascertain the cause of death or the seat of a disease.

3. To divide into its constituent parts, for the purpose of examination; as, dissect your mind; dissect a paragraph.

Dissected

DISSECTED, participle passive Cut in pieces; separated by parting the joints; divided into its constituent parts; opened and examined.

Dissecting

DISSECTING, participle present tense Cutting in pieces; dividing the parts; separating constituent parts for minute examination.

Dissection

DISSECTION, noun [Latin]

1. The act of cutting in pieces an animal or vegetable, for the purpose of examining the structure and uses of its parts; anatomy.

DISSECTION was held sacrilege till the time of Francis I.

2.The act of separating into constituent parts, for the purpose of critical examination.

Dissector

DISSECTOR, noun One who dissects; an anatomist.

Disseize

DISSEIZE, verb transitive [dis and seize.] In law, to dispossess wrongfully; to deprive of actual seizin or possession; followed by of; as, to disseize a tenant of his freehold.

A man may suppose himself disseized, when he is not so.

Disseized

DISSEIZED, participle passive Put out of possession wrongfully or by force; deprived of actual possession.

Disseizee

DISSEIZEE, noun A person put out of possession of an estate unlawfully.

Disseizin

DISSEIZIN, noun The act of disseizing; an unlawful dispossessing of a person of his lands, tenements, or incorporeal hereditaments; a deprivation of actual seizin.

Disseizing

DISSEIZING, participle present tense Depriving of actual seizin or possession; putting out of possession.

Disseizor

DISSEIZOR, noun One who puts another out of possession wrongfully; he that dispossessses another.

Dissemblance

DISSEMBLANCE, noun [dis and semblance.] Want of resemblance. [Little used.]

Dissemble

DISSEMBLE, verb transitive [Latin]

1. To hide under a false appearance; to conceal; to disguise; to pretend that not to be which really is; as, I will not dissemble the truth; I cannot dissemble my real sentiments. [This is the proper sense of this word.]

2. To pretend that to be which is not; to make a false appearance of. This is the sense of simulate.

Your son Lucentio doth love my daughter, and she loveth him, or both dissemble deeply their affections.

DISSEMBLE, verb intransitive To be hypocritical; to assume a false appearance; to conceal the real fact, motives, intention or sentiments under some pretense.

Ye have stolen and dissembled also. Joshua 7:11.

He that hateth, dissembleth with his lips. Proverbs 26:1.

Dissembled

DISSEMBLED, participle passive Concealed under a false appearance; disguised.

Dissembler

DISSEMBLER, noun One who dissembles; a hypocrite; one who conceals his opinions or dispositions under a false appearance.

Dissembling

DISSEMBLING, participle present tense Hiding under a false appearance; acting the hypocrite.

Dissemblingly

DISSEMBLINGLY, adverb With dissimulation; hypocritically; falsely.

Disseminate

DISSEMINATE, verb transitive [Latin , to sow; seed.]

1. Literally, to sow; to scatter seed; but seldom or never used in its literal sense. But hence,

2. To scatter for growth and propagation, like seed; to spread. Thus, principles, opinions and errors are disseminated, when they are spread and propagated. To disseminate truth or the gospel is highly laudable.

3. To spread; to diffuse.

A uniform heat disseminate through the body of the earth.

4. To spread; to disperse.

The Jews are disseminated through all the trading parts of the world.

[The second is the most proper application of the word, as it should always include the idea of growth or taking root. The fourth sense is hardly vindicable.]

Disseminated

DISSEMINATED, participle passive

1. Scattered, as seed propagated; spread.

2. In mineralogy, occurring in portions less than a hazel nut; being scattered.

Disseminating

DISSEMINATING, participle present tense Scattering and propagating; spreading.

Dissemination

DISSEMINATION, noun The act of scattering and propagating, like seed; the act of spreading for growth and permanence. We trust the world is to be reformed by the dissemination of evangelical doctrines.

Disseminator

DISSEMINATOR, noun One who disseminates; one who spreads and propagates.

Dissension

DISSENSION, noun [Latin , to think.] Disagreement in opinion, usually a disagreement which is violent, producing warm debates or angry words; contention in words; strife; discord; quarrel; breach of friendship and union.

Debates, dissensions, uproars are thy joy.

Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension with them. Acts 15:2.

We see dissensions in church and state, in towns, parishes, and families, and the word is sometimes applied to differences which produce war; as the dissensions between the houses of York and Lancaster in England.

Dissensious

DISSENSIOUS, adjective Disposed to discord; quarrelsome; contentious; factious. [Little used.]

Dissent

DISSENT, verb intransitive [Latin , to think.]

1. To disagree in opinion; to differ; to think in a different or contrary manner; with from. There are many opinions in which men dissent from us, as they dissent from each other.

2. To differ from an established church, in regard to doctrines, rites or government.

3. To differ; to be of a contrary nature. [Less proper.]

DISSENT, noun

1. Difference of opinion; disagreement.

2. Declaration of disagreement in opinion; as, they entered their dissent on the journals of the house.

3. Contrariety of nature; opposite quality. [Not in use.]

Dissentaneous

DISSENTANEOUS, adjective Disagreeable; contrary.

Dissentany

DISSENTANY, adjective Dissentaneous; inconsistent. [Not used.]

Dissenter

DISSENTER, noun

1. One who dissents; one who differs in opinion, or one who declares his disagreement.

2. One who separates from the service and worship of any established church. The word is in England particularly applied to those who separate from, or who do not unite with, the church of England.

Dissentient

DISSENTIENT, adjective Disagreeing; declaring dissent.

DISSENTIENT, noun One who disagrees and declares his dissent.

Dissenting

DISSENTING, participle present tense Disagreeing in opinion; separating from the communion of an established church. It is used as an adjective; as a dissenting minister or congregation.

Dissentious

DISSENTIOUS, adjective Disposed to disagreement or discord.

Dissepiment

DISSEPIMENT, noun [Latin , to separate; to inclose or guard.] In botany, a partition in dry seed-vessels, as in capsules and pods, which separates the fruit into cells.

Dissert

DISSERT, verb intransitive [Latin] To discourse or dispute. [Little in use.]

Dissertation

DISSERTATION, noun [Latin , to discourse; to sow, that is, to throw.]

1. A discourse, or rather a formal discourse, intended to illustrate a subject.

2. A written essay, treatise or disquisition; as Plutarchs dissertation on the poets; Newtons dissertations on the prophecies.

Dissertator

DISSERTATOR, noun One who writes a dissertation; one who debates.

Disserve

DISSERVE, verb transitive disserv. [dis and serve.] To injure; to hurt; to harm; to do injury or mischief to.

He took the first opportunity to disserve him.

Too much zeal often disserves a good cause.

Disserved

DISSERVED, participle passive Injured.

Disservice

DISSERVICE, noun Injury; harm; mischief; as, violent remedies often do a disservice

Disserviceable

DISSERVICEABLE, adjective Injurious; hurtful.

Disserviceableness

DISSERVICEABLENESS, noun The quality of being injurious; tendency to harm.

Dissettle

DISSETTLE, verb transitive To unsettle. [Not used.]

Dissever

DISSEVER, verb transitive [dis and sever. In this word, dis, as in dispart, can have no effect, unless to augment the signification, as dis and sever both denote separation.] To dispart; to part in two; to divide asunder; to separate; to disunite, either by violence or not. When with force, it is equivalent to rend and burst. It may denote either to cut or to tear asunder. In beheading, the head is dissevered from the body. The lightning may dissever a branch from the stem of a tree. Jealousy dissevers the bonds of friendship. The reformation dissevered the Catholic church; it dissevered Protestants from catholics.

Disseverance

DISSEVERANCE, noun The act of dissevering; separation.

Dissevered

DISSEVERED, participle passive Disparted; disjoined; separated.

Dissevering

DISSEVERING, participle present tense Dividing asunder; separating; tearing or cutting asunder.

DISSEVERING, noun The act of separating; separation.

Dissidence

DISSIDENCE, noun [infra.] Discord.

Dissident

DISSIDENT, adjective [Latin , to disagree; to sit.] Not agreeing.

DISSIDENT, noun A dissenter; one who separates from the established religion; a word applied to the members of the Lutheran, Calvinistic and Greek churches in Poland.

Dissilience

DISSILIENCE, noun [Latin , to leap.] The act of leaping or starting asunder.

Dissilient

DISSILIENT, adjective Starting asunder; bursting and opening with an elastic force, as the dry pod or capsule of a plant; as a dissilient pericarp.

Dissilition

DISSILITION, noun The act of bursting open; the act of starting or springing different ways.

Dissimilar

DISSIMILAR, adjective [dis and similar.] Unlike, either in nature, properties or external form; not similar; not having the resemblance of; heterogeneous. Newton denominates dissimilar the rays of light of different refrangibility. The tempers of men are as dissimilar as their features.

Dissimilarity

DISSIMILARITY, noun Unlikeness; want of resemblance; dissimilitude; as the dissimilarity of human faces and forms.

Dissimile

DISSIMILE, noun Dissimily. Comparison or illustration by contraries. [Little used.]

Dissimilitude

DISSIMILITUDE, noun [Latin] Unlikeness; want of resemblance; as a dissimilitude of form or character.

Dissimulation

DISSIMULATION, noun [Latin , to make like; like.] The act of dissembling; a hiding under a false appearance; a feigning; false pretension; hypocrisy. dissimulation may be simply concealment of the opinions, sentiments or purpose; but it includes also the assuming of a false or counterfeit appearance which conceals the real opinions or purpose. dissimulation among statesmen is sometimes regarded as a necessary vice, or as no vice at all.

Let love be without dissimulation Romans 12:9.

Dissimule

DISSIMULE, verb transitive To dissemble. [Not in use.]

Dissipable

DISSIPABLE, adjective [See Dissipate.] Liable to be dissipated; that may be scattered or dispersed.

The heat of those plants is very dissipable

Dissipate

DISSIPATE, verb transitive [Latin , to throw.]

1. To scatter; to disperse; to drive asunder. Wind dissipates fog; the heat of the sun dissipates vapor; mirth dissipates care and anxiety; the cares of life tend to dissipate serious reflections. Scatter, disperse and dissipate are in many cases synonymous; but dissipate is used appropriately to denote the dispersion of things that vanish, or are not afterwards collected; as, to dissipate fog, vapor or clouds. We say, an army is scattered or dispersed, but not dissipated. Trees are scattered or dispersed over a field, but not dissipated.

2. To expend; to squander; to scatter property in wasteful extravagance; to waste; to consume; as, a man has dissipated his fortune in the pursuit of pleasure.

3. To scatter the attention.

DISSIPATE, verb intransitive To scatter; to disperse; to separate into parts and disappear; to waste away; to vanish.

A fog or cloud gradually dissipates, before the rays or heat of the sun. The heat of a body dissipates; the fluids dissipate

Dissipated

DISSIPATED, participle passive

1. Scattered; dispersed; wasted; consumed; squandered.

2. adjective Loose; irregular; given to extravagance in the expenditure of property; devoted to pleasure and vice; as a dissipated man; a dissipated life.

Dissipating

DISSIPATING, participle present tense Scattering; dispersing; wasting; consuming; squandering; vanishing.

Dissipation

DISSIPATION, noun

1. The act of scattering; dispersion; the state of being dispersed; as the dissipation of vapor or heat.

2. In physics, the insensible loss or waste of the minute parts of a body, which fly off, by which means the body is diminished or consumed.

3. Scattered attention; or that which diverts and calls off the mind from any subject.

4. A dissolute, irregular course of life; a wandering from object to object in pursuit of pleasure; a course of life usually attended with careless and exorbitant expenditure of money, and indulgence in vices, which impair or ruin both health and fortune.

What! Is it proposed then to reclaim the spendthrift from his dissipation and extravagance, by filling his pockets with money?

Dissociable

DISSOCIABLE, adjective [See Dissociate.]

1. Not well associated, united or assorted.

They came in two and two, though matched in the most dissociable manner.

2. Incongruous; not reconcilable with.

Dormant partner, in commerce and manufactories, a partner who takes no share in the active business of a company or partnership, but is entitled to a share of the profits and subject to a share in losses. He is called also sleeping partner.

Dissocial

DISSOCIAL, adjective [dis and social.] Unfriendly to society; contracted; selfish; as a dissocial passion.

Dissociate

DISSOCIATE, verb transitive [Latin , to unite, a companion.] To separate; to disunite; to part; as, to dissociate the particles of a concrete substance.

Dissociated

DISSOCIATED, participle passive Separated; disunited.

Dissociating

DISSOCIATING, participle present tense Separating; disuniting.

Dissociation

DISSOCIATION, noun The act of disuniting; a state of separation; disunion.

It will add to the dissociation distraction and confusion of these confederate republics.

Dissolubility

DISSOLUBILITY, noun Capacity of being dissolved by heat or moisture, and converted into a fluid.

Dissoluble

DISSOLUBLE, adjective [Latin See Dissolve.]

1. Capable of being dissolved; that may be melted; having its parts separable by heat or moisture; convertible into a fluid.

2. That may be disunited.

Dissolute

DISSOLUTE, adjective [Latin]

1. Loose in behavior and morals; given to vice and dissipation; wanton; lewd; luxurious; debauched; not under the restraints of law; as a dissolute man; dissolute company.

2. Vicious; wanton; devoted to pleasure and dissipation; as a dissolute life.

Dissolutely

DISSOLUTELY, adverb Loosely; wantonly; in dissipation or debauchery; without restraint; as, to live dissolutely

Dissoluteness

DISSOLUTENESS, noun Looseness of manners and morals; vicious indulgences in pleasure, as in intemperance and debauchery; dissipation; as dissoluteness of life or manners.

Dissolution

DISSOLUTION, noun [Latin] In a general sense, the separation of the parts of a body which, in the natural structure, are united; or the reduction of concrete bodies into their smallest parts, without regard to solidity or fluidity. Thus we speak of the dissolution of salts in water, of metals in nitro-muriatic acid, and of ice or butter by heat; in which cases, the dissolution is effected by a menstruum or particular agent. We speak so of the dissolution of flesh or animal bodies, when the parts separate by putrefaction. dissolution then is,

1. The act of liquefying or changing from a solid to a fluid state by heat; a melting; a thawing; as the dissolution of snow and ice, which converts them into water.

2. The reduction of a body into its smallest parts, or into very minute parts, by a dissolvent or menstruum, as of a metal by nitro-muricatic acid, or of slats in water.

3. The separation of the parts of a body by putrefaction, or the analysis of the natural structure of mixed bodies, as of animal or vegetable substances; decomposition.

4. The substance formed by dissolving a body in a menstruum. [This is now called a solution.]

5. Death; the separation of the soul and body.

6. Destruction; the separation of the parts which compose a connected system, or body; as the dissolution of the world, or of nature; the dissolution of government.

7. The breaking up of an assembly, or the putting an end to its existence.

DISSOLUTION is the civil death of parliament.

8. Looseness of manners; dissipation. In this latter sense the word is obsolete, dissoluteness being substituted.

9. dissolution of the blood, in medicine, that state of the blood, in which it does not readily coagulate, no its cooling out of the body, as in malignant fevers.

Dissolvable

DISSOLVABLE, adjective Dizzolvable. [See Dissolve.] That may be dissolved; capable of being melted; that may be converted into a fluid. Sugar and ice are dissolvable bodies.

Dissolve

DISSOLVE, verb transitive dizzolv. [Latin , to loose, to free.]

1. To melt; to liquefy; to convert from a solid or fixed state to a fluid state, by means of heat or moisture.

To desolve by heat, is to loosen the parts of a solid body and render them fluid or easily movable. Thus ice is converted into water by dissolution.

To dissolve in a liquid, is to separate the parts of a solid substance, and cause them to mix with the fluid; or to reduce a solid substance into minute parts which may be sustained in that fluid. Thus water dissolves salt and sugar.

2. To disunite; to break; to separate.

Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness? 2 Peter 3:11.

3. To loose; to disunite.

Down fell the duke, his joints dissolved.

4. To loose the ties or bonds of any thing; to destroy an connected system; as, to dissolve a government; to dissolve a corporation.

5. To loose; to break; as, to dissolve a league; to dissolve the bonds of friendship.

6. To break up; to cause to separate; to put an end to; as, to dissolve the parliament; to dissolve an assembly.

7. To clear; to solve; to remove; to dissipate, or to explain; as, to dissolve doubts. We usually say, to solve doubts and difficulties.

8. To break; to destroy; as, to dissolve a charm, spell or enchantment.

9. To loosen or relax; to make languid; as dissolved in pleasure.

10. To waste away; to consume; to cause to vanish or perish.

Thou dissolvest my substance. Job 30:1.

11. To annul; to rescind; as, to dissolve an injunction.

DISSOLVE, verb intransitive dizzolv.

1. To be melted; to be converted from a solid to a fluid state; as, sugar dissolves in water.

2. To sink away; to lose strength and firmness.

3. To melt away in pleasure; to become soft or languid.

4. To fall asunder; to crumble; to be broken. A government may dissolve by its own weight or extent.

5. To waste away; to perish; to be decomposed. Flesh dissolves by putrefaction.

6. To come to an end by a separation of parts.

Dissolved

DISSOLVED, participle passive Melted; liquefied; disunited; parted; loosed; relaxed; wasted away; ended.

DISSOLVED blood, is that which does not readily coagulate.

Dissolvent

DISSOLVENT, adjective Having power to melt or dissolve; as the dissolvent juices of the stomach.

DISSOLVENT, noun

1. Any thing which has the power or quality of melting, or converting a solid substance into a fluid, or of separating the parts of a fixed body so that they mix with a liquid; as, water is a dissolvent of salts and earths. It is otherwise called a menstruum.

2. In medicine, a remedy supposed capable of dissolving concretions in the body, such as calculi, tubercles, etc.

Dissolver

DISSOLVER, noun That which dissolves or has the power of dissolving. Heat is the most powerful dissolver of substances.

Dissolving

DISSOLVING, participle present tense Melting; making or becoming liquid.

Dissonance

DISSONANCE, noun [Latin , to be discordant; to sound.]

1. Discord; a mixture or union of harsh, unharmonious sounds, which are grating or unpleasing to the ear; as the dissonance of notes, sounds or numbers.

2. Disagreement.

Dissonant

DISSONANT, adjective

1. Discordant; harsh; jarring; unharmonious; unpleasant to the ear; as dissonant notes or intervals.

2. Disagreeing; incongruous; usually with from; as, he advanced propositions very dissonant from truth.

Dissuade

DISSUADE, verb transitive [Latin , to advise or incite to any thing.]

1. To advise or exhort against; to attempt to draw or divert from a measure, by reason or offering motives to; as, the minister dissuaded the prince from adopting the measure; he dissuaded him from his purpose.

2. To represent as unfit, improper or dangerous.

War therefore, open or concealed, alike my voice dissuades.

This phraseology is probably elliptical, and merely poetical; from being understood.

Dissuaded

DISSUADED, participle passive Advised against; counseled or induced by advice not to do something; diverted from a purpose.

Dissuader

DISSUADER, noun He that dissuades; a dehorter.

Dissuading

DISSUADING, participle present tense Exhorting against; attempting, by advice, to divert from a purpose.

Dissuasion

DISSUASION, noun Disuazhun. Advice or exhortation in opposition to something; the act of attempting, by reason or motives offered, to divert from a purpose or measure; dehortation.

Dissuasive

DISSUASIVE, adjective Tending to dissuade, or divert form a measure or purpose; dehortatory.

DISSUASIVE, noun Reason, argument, or counsel, employed to deter one from a measure or purpose; that which is used or which tends to divert the mind from any purpose or pursuit. The consequences of intemperance are powerful dissuasives from indulging in that vice.

Dissunder

DISSUNDER, verb transitive [dis and sunder.] To separate; to rend.