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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Dis’ap-prō’pri-ate, a. p. 379(Law.) Severed from the appropriation or possession of a spiritual corporation. The appropriation may be severed, and the church become disappropriate, two ways. Blackstone.Dis'ap-prō'pri-āte, v. t. p. 379To release from individual ownership or possession. Milton. 2. (Law.) To sever from appropriation or possession by a spiritual corporation. The appropriations of the several parsonages ... would have…Dis'ap-prŏv'al, n. p. 379Disapprobation; dislike.Dis'ap-prōve', v. t. p. 379To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong or inexpedient; to censure; as, we often disapprove the conduct of others. 2. To refuse official…Dis’ap-prov’ing-ly, adv. p. 379In a disapproving manner.Dis'ard, n. p. 379A dizzard. See DIZZARD. Burton. }Dis-ärm', v. t. p. 379To deprive of arms; to take away the weapons of; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless. Security disarms the best appointed army. Fuller. 2. To deprive of the means or…Dis-ärm'ə-ment, n. p. 379The act of disarming.Dis-ärm'er, n. p. 379One who disarms.Dis'ar-rānge', v. t. p. 379To unsettle or disturb the order or due arrangement of; to throw out of order.Dis’ar-rāng’e’ment, n. p. 379The act of disarranging, or the state of being disarranged; confusion; disorder.Dis'ar-rāy', v. t. p. 379To throw into disorder; to break the array of. Who with fiery steeds Oft disarrayed the foes in battle ranged. Fenton. 2. To take off the dress of; to unrobe. Him did disarray, And all his face…Dis'ar-rāy',, n. p. 379Want of array or regular order; disorder; confusion. Disrank the troops, set all in disarray. Daniel. 2. State of being imperfectly or confusedly attired; undress. Spencer.Dis'ar-tic'ū-late, v. t. p. 379To divide; to sunder; to separate.Dis'ar-tic/ū-lā'tion, n. p. 379The sundering of joints or articulations.Dis'as-sēnt', v. i. p. 379To dissent. [Obs.]Dis’as-sēnt’, n. p. 379Dissent. [Obs.] Hall.Dis'as-sĕnt'er, n. p. 379One who disassents; a dissenter. [Obs.] State Trials.Dis-ăs'si-dū'i-ty, n. p. 379Want of assiduity or care. [Obs.] Wotton.Dis’as-sō’ci-āte, v. t. p. 379To disconnect from things associated; to disunite.Dis-ăs'ter, n. p. 379An unpropitious or baleful aspect of a planet or star; an ill portent. [Obs.] “Disasters in the sun.” Shak. 2. An unfortunate event, especially a sudden misfortune; misfortune; mishap; calamity; as…Dis-ăs'ter, v. t. p. 379To blast by the influence of a baleful star. [Obs.] Spenser. 2. To bring harm upon; to injure. Thomson.Dis-äs'ter-ly, adv. p. 379Disastrously. [Obs.] Drayton.Dis-ās'troŭs, a. p. 379Full of unpropitious stellar influences; unpropitious; ill-boding. [Obs.] The moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds. Milton. 2. Attended with suffering or disaster; unfortunate; calamitous.…Dis·ās'troŭs·ly, adv. p. 379In a disastrous manner; unfortunately.Dis·ās'troŭs·ness, n. p. 379Unfortunateness; calamitousness.Dis/at-tīre′, v. t. p. 379To deprive of attire; to unrobe. Spenser.Dis'aug-mēnt', v. t. p. 379To diminish. [Obs. and rare.] That everlasting treasure, Which force deprives not, fortune disaugments not. Quarles.Dis-au'thor-ize, v. t. p. 379To deprive of credit or authority; to discredit. [Obs.] Wotton.Dis'-a-vĕnt'-ūre, n. p. 379Misfortune; misadventure. [Obs.] Spenser.Dis'a-vĕnt'ūr-oŭs, a. p. 379Misadventurous. Spenser.Dis'a-vouch', v. t. p. 379To retract profession of; to disavow. [R.] Davies.Dis/a-vow', v. t. p. 379To refuse to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, and the like; to disclaim; to disown; to disallow; as, he was charged with embezzlement, but he disavows the fact. 2. To…Dis'/a-vow'al, n. p. 379The act of disavowing, disclaiming, or disowning; rejection and denial. A disavowal of fear often proceeds from fear. Richardson.Dis'a-vow'ance, n. p. 379Disavowal. [Obs.] South.Dis'a-vow'er, n. p. 379One who disavows.Dis'a-vow'ment, n. p. 379Disavowal; a disowning. [Obs.] Wotton.Dis-bānd', v. t. p. 379To scatter; to loose the bands or banded existence of; to disperse; especially, to break up the military organization of; to dismiss from military service; as, to disband an army or a regiment. 2. To…Dis-bănd′, v. i. p. 379To become separated, broken up, dissolved, or scattered; especially, to quit military service by breaking up organization. Human society may disband. Tillotson. When both rocks and all things shall…Dis-bănd'ment, n. p. 379The act of disbanding.Dis-bär', v. t. p. 379(Law.) To expel from the bar;—said of barristers, who, in England, may be excluded from the bar in accordance with power vested in the benchers of the four inns of court, subject to an appeal to the…Dis-bärk', v. t. p. 379To put on shore; to disembark; to debark. Pope.Dis-bärk', v. t. p. 379To strip of bark; to bark. [Rare.] Boyle.Dis-bāse’, v. t. p. 379To debase or degrade. [Obs.] Nor you nor your house were so much as spoken of before I disbased myself. B. Jonson.Dis/be-cōme', v. t. p. 379To misbecome. [Obs.] Massinger.Dis/be-lief′, n. p. 379The act of disbelieving; refusal of credit; denial of belief. Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing. Tillotson. 2. A system of error. Nugatory disbeliefs wound off…Dis/be-lieve′, v. t. p. 379Not to believe; to hold not to be true or actual; to refuse credit to; as, some men disbelieve the inspiration of the Scriptures, and the immortality of the soul.Dis/be-liev'er, n. p. 379One who disbelieves, or refuses belief. Watts.Dis-bĕnch’, v. t. p. 379To drive from a bench or seat. [Obs. and rare.] Shak.Dis-bĕnd', v. t. p. 379To unbend; to relax or render incapable of action. As liberty a courage doth impart, So bondage doth disbend, else break, the heart. Stirling.Dis-bīnd', v. t. p. 379To untie; to loosen. Mede.Dis-blāme', v. t. p. 379To clear from blame. [Obs.] Chaucer.Dis-bŏd'ied, a. p. 380Disembodied. [Obs.] Glanville.Dis`/bos-eā`tion, n. p. 380The act of converting forest land into cleared or arable land; removal of a forest. [Obs.] Scott.Dis-bow'el, v. t. p. 380To take out the intestines of; to disembowel; to eviscerate. Spenser.Dis-brănch', v. t. p. 380To cut off or separate, as a branch from a tree. 2. To deprive of branches. [Rare.] Evelyn.Dis-bŭd', v. t. p. 380To deprive of buds or shoots, as for training or economizing the vital strength of a tree.Dis-bŭr'den, v. t. p. 380To rid of a burden; to relieve of something which oppresses or weighs down; to unload; to disencumber; to unburden. He did it to disburden a conscience. Feltham. My meditations . . . will, I hope, be…Dis-bŭr'den, v. i. p. 380To ease the mind. Milton.Dis-bŭr'geon, v. t. p. 380To strip of burgeons or buds. Holland.