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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'en-gā'ging, p. a. p. 385Separating; loosing; setting free; detaching. Disengaging machinery. See ENGAGING.Dis'en-nō'ble, v. t. p. 385To deprive of that which ennobles; to lower; to degrade. An unworthy behavior degrades and disennobles a man. Guardian.Dis'en-rōll', v. i. p. 385To erase from a roll or list. Donne.Dis'en-sān'i-ty, n. p. 385Insanity; folly. [Obs.] What tediosity and disensanity Is here among you! Beau. & Fl.Dis'en-slāve', v. t. p. 385To free from bondage; to disenthrall. South.Dis'en-tāng'gle, v. t. p. 385To free from entanglement; to release from a condition of being intricately and confusedly involved; to reduce to orderly separation; as, to disentangle network; to disentangle a skein of yarn. 2. To…Dis'en-tāng'gle-ment, n. p. 385The act of disentangling or extricating. Warton.Dis'en-tēr', v. t. p. 385See DISINTER.Dis'en-thrall', v. t. p. 385To release from thralldom or slavery; to give freedom to. Thou didst me disenthrall. Milton.Dis’en-thrōne’, v. t. p. 385To dethrone; to depose from sovereign authority. Milton.Dis'en-tī'tle, v. t. p. 385To deprive of title or claim. South. Every ordinary offense does not disentitle a son to the love of his father. South.Dis'en-tomb', v. t. p. 385To take out from a tomb.Dis-ēn'trail, v. t. p. 385To disembowel; to eviscerate. [Obs.] Spenser.Dis'en-trānçe', v. t. p. 385To awaken from a trance; to arouse from a revery. Hudibras.Dis'en-twine', v. t. p. 385To free from being entwined or twisted. Shelley.Dis-ërt', a. p. 385Eloquent. [Obs.]Dis-ēr'ti-tūde, n. p. 385Eloquence. [Obs.]Dis'es-pouse', v. t. p. 385To release from espousal or plighted faith. Milton.Dĭs'es-tāb'lish, v. t. p. 385To unsettle; to break up. [Obs.]Dĭs’es-teem’, n. p. 385Want of esteem; low regard, inclining to dislike; disfavor. Milton.Dĭs'es-teem', v. t. p. 385To feel an absence of esteem for; to regard with disapproval or disfavor; to slight. “Qualities which society does not disesteem.” Bulwer. But if this sacred gift you disesteem. Denham. 2. To deprive…Dís'es-teem'er, n. p. 385One who disesteems. Boyle.Dis-ès/ti-mā'tion, n. p. 385Disesteem. Reynolds.Dis-ex'er-cise, v. t. p. 385To deprive of exercise; to leave untrained. [Obs.] “By disexercising . . . our abilities.” Milton.Dis-făn'cy, v. t. p. 385To dislike. [Obs.] Hammond.Dis-făsh'ion, v. t. p. 385To disfigure. [Obs.] Sir T. More.Dis-fā'vor, n. p. 385Want of favor or favorable regard; disesteem; disregard. “The people that have deserved my disfavor.” Isa. x. 6. (Bible, 1551.) 2. The state of not being in favor; a being under the frown or…Dis-fā'vor, v. t. p. 385To withhold or withdraw favor from; to regard with disesteem; to discountenance. Countenanced or disfavored according as they obey. Swift.Dis-fā'vor-a-ble, a. p. 385Not favorable; unpropitious; unfavorable. [Obs.] Stow.Dis-fā'vor-a-bly, adv. p. 385In an unfavorable manner; unpropitiously. [Obs.] Mountagu.Dis-fā'vor-er, n. p. 385One who disfavors. Bacon.Dis-fēat'ūre, v. t. p. 385To deprive of features; to mar the features of. [Rare.]Dis-fĕl'lōw-shĭp, v. t. p. 385To exclude from fellowship; to refuse intercourse with. “An attempt to disfellowship an evil, but to fellowship the evil-doer.” Freewill Bapt. Qu.Dis-fig'ū-rā'tion, n. p. 385The act of disfiguring, or the state of being disfigured; defacement; deformity; disfigurement.Dis-fig'ûre, v. t. p. 385To mar the figure of; to render less complete, perfect, or beautiful in appearance; to deface; to deform. “Disfiguring not God’s likeness, but their own.” Milton. Syn.—To deface; deform; mar; injure.Dis-fig'ûre-ment, n. p. 385The act of disfiguring, or the state of being disfigured; deformity. Milton. 2. That which disfigures; a defacement. Uncommon expressions . . . are a disfigurement rather than any embellishment of…Dis-fig'ür-er, n. p. 385One who disfigures.Dis-flĕsh', v. t. p. 385To reduce the flesh or obesity of. [Obs.] Shelton.Dis-fōr'est, v. t. p. 385To disafforest. Fuller.Dis-fôrm'i-ty, n. p. 385Discordance or diversity of form; variety. Uniformity or disformity in comparing together the respective figures of bodies. S. Clarke.Dis-frăn'chīze, v. t. p. 385To deprive of a franchise or chartered right; to dispossess of the rights of a citizen, or of a particular right, as of voting, holding office, &c. Disfranchised and incapable of any office in the…Dis-frăn'chĭze-ment, n. p. 385The act of disfranchising, or the state of being disfranchised; deprivation of rights of citizenship or of chartered immunities. Sentenced first to dismissal from the court, and then to…Dis-frī'ar, v. t. p. 385To depose or withdraw from the condition of a friar. [Obs.] Many did quickly unnun and disfriar themselves. Fuller.Dis-fûr'nish, v. t. p. 385To deprive of furniture; to strip of apparatus, habiliments, or equipage; to render destitute of. I am a thing obscure, disfurnished of All merit. Massinger.Dis-fûr'ni-tūre, n. p. 385The act of disfurnishing, or the state of being disfurnished. [Obs.] Mountagu.Dis-fûr'ni-tûre, v. t. p. 385To disfurnish; as, to disfurniture a house. [Obs.]Dis-gāge', v. t. p. 385To free from a pledge; to disengage. [Obs.] Holland.Dis-găl'lant, v. t. p. 385To deprive of gallantry. [Obs.] B. Jonson.Dis-gär'bage, v. t. p. 385To take out the entrails of. [Obs.]Dis-gär'land, v. t. p. 385To strip of garlands; to deprive of ornaments. Drummond.Dis-gär'nish, v. t. p. 385To divest of garniture, ornaments, or furniture; to dismantle. “Not dis-garnished nor unprovided of the same.” Hall.Dis-găr'ri-son, v. t. p. 385To deprive of a garrison. Hewyt.Dis-găv'el, v. t. p. 385(Eng. Law.) To deprive of that principal quality of gavel-kind tenure by which lands descend equally among all the sons of the tenant;—said of lands. Burrill.Dis-ġĕst', v. t. p. 385To digest. [Obs.] Bacon.Dis-ġĕs'tion, n. p. 385Digestion. [Obs.] Bacon.Dis-glō'ri-fȳ, v. t. p. 385To deprive of glory. [Obs.] “Disglorified, blasphemed, and had in scorn.” Milton.Dis-glō'ry, n. p. 385Deprivation of glory; dishonor. [Obs.] “To the disglory of God’s name.” Northbrooke.Dis-gôrge', v. t. p. 385To eject or discharge from the stomach, throat, or mouth; to vomit; to pour forth or throw out with violence, as if from a mouth; to discharge violently or in great quantities from a confined place.…Dis-gôrge', v. t. p. 385To vomit forth what any thing contains; to make restitution.Dis-gòrge'ment, n. p. 385The act of disgorging; that which is disgorged. Hall.