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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-in'ter-ess, v. t. p. 387To deprive of interest or affection. [Obs.] Camden.Dis-in'ter-ess-ment, n. p. 387Disinterestedness; impartiality. [Obs.] Prior.Dis-in'ter-est, n. p. 387What is contrary to interest or advantage; disadvantage; injury. [Obs.] Glanville. 2. Indifference to profit; want of regard to private advantage. [Obs.] Johnson.Dis-in'ter-est, v. t. p. 387To separate the interests of; to detach. [Obs.] Feltham.Dis-in'ter-est, a. p. 387Disinterested. [Obs.] The measures they shall walk by shall be disinterest and even. Bp. Taylor.Dis-in'ter-est-ed, a. p. 387Not influenced by regard to personal interest; free from considerations of private advantage; having no relation of interest or feeling; as, a disinterested decision or judge. “The happiness of…Dis-in'ter-est-ed-ly, adv. p. 387In a disinterested manner.Dis-in'ter-est-ed-ness, n. p. 387The state or quality of being disinterested; freedom from bias or prejudice, on account of private interest; impartiality. That perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which man seems to be…Dis-īn’ter-est-ing, a. p. 387Uninteresting. [Obs.] “Disinteresting passages.” Warburton.Dis'in-tĕr'ment, n. p. 387The act of disintering, or taking out of the earth; exhumation.Dis'in-thrall', v. t. p. 387To disenthrall.Dis'in-thrall'ment, n. p. 387Disenthrallment. Dis-in'tri-cate, v. t. [Prefix dis and intricate, q. v.] To disentangle. [Obs.] Scott.Dĭs'in-ūre', v. t. p. 387To deprive of familiarity or custom; to render unfamiliar. [Obs.] We are hindered and disinured . . . toward the true knowledge. Milton.Dis'in-vĕs'ti-tūre, n. p. 387The act of depriving of investiture. [Obs.] Ogilvie.Dĭs'in-vīte', v. t. p. 387To recall an invitation to. [Obs.] Finett.Dis'in-vŏlve', v. t. p. 387To uncover; to unfold or unroll; to disentangle. [Rare.]Dis-jec'tion, n. p. 387The act of overthrowing or dissipating. Horsley.Dis-join', v. t. p. 387To part; to disunite; to separate; to sunder. That marriage, therefore, God himself disjoins. Milton. Syn. — To disunite; separate; sever; detach; dissever; sunder.Dis-join', v. i. p. 387To become separated; to part.Dis-joint', v. t. p. 387To separate the joints of; to separate, as parts united by joints; to put out of joint; to force out of its socket; to dislocate; as, to disjoint the limbs; to disjoint bones; to disjoint a fowl in…Dis-joint', v. i. p. 387To fall in pieces. Shak.Dis-joint', a. p. 387Disjointed; broken; unconnected. “A disjoint and private interest of his own.” Milton.Dis-joint'ed-ness, n. p. 387State of being disjointed.Dis-joint'ly, adv. p. 387In a disjointed state. Sandys.Dis-jū'di-cā'tion, n. p. 387Judgment; discrimination; determination. [Obs.] Boyle.Dis-jŭnct′, a. p. 387Disjointed; separated. Disjunct tetrachords (Mus.), tetrachords so disposed to each other that the gravest note of the upper is one note higher than the acutest note of the other. Moore.Dis-jŭnc'tion, n. p. 387The act of disjoining; disunion; separation; a parting; as, the disjunction of soul and body. 2. A disjunctive proposition. Coleridge.Dis-jŭnct'ive, a. p. 387Tending to disjoin; separating; disjoining. 2. (Mus.) Pertaining to disjunct tetrachords, “Disjunctive notes.” Moore. Disjunctive conjunction (Gram.), one connecting grammatically two words or…Dis-jūnct'ive, n. p. 387(Gram.) (a.) A disjunctive conjunction. (b.) A disjunctive proposition.Dis-jūnct'ive-ly, adv. p. 387In a disjunctive manner; separately.Dis-jŭnct'ūre, n. p. 387The act of disjoining, or the state of being disjoined; separation. Fuller.Disk, n. p. 387A flat, circular plate; as, a disk of metal, or of paper. 2. A discus; a quoit. Some whirl the disk; and some the javelin dart. Pope. 3. (Astron.) The face or visible projection of a celestial body.…Dis-kĭnd'ness, n. p. 387Want of kindness or affection; injury; detriment.Dis-lāde', v. t. p. 387To unlade. [Obs.] Heywood.Dis-lā'dy, v. t. p. 387To deprive of the title or reputation of a lady. [Obs.] B. Jonson.Dis-lēal', a. p. 387Disloyal; dishonorable. [Obs.] “Disleal knight.” Spenser.Dis-like', n. p. 387Positive and usually permanent aversion; displeasure; disapprobation; repugnance. Of their doings great dislike declared, And testified against their ways. Milton. 2. Discord; disagreement. [Obs.]…Dis-like', v. t. p. 387To regard with dislike; to have an aversion to; to disapprove of; to disrelish. Every nation dislikes an impost. Johnson. 2. To awaken dislike in; to displease. “Disliking countenance.” Marston. “It…Dis-like'ful, a. p. 387Full of dislike; displeased; disagreeable. [Obs.] Spenser.Dis-līke'li-hōōd, n. p. 387The want of likelihood; improbability. W. Scott.Dis-lik'en, v. t. p. 387To make unlike. Shak.Dis-like'ness, n. p. 387Unlikeness; want of resemblance; dissimilitude. [Obs.] Locke.Dis-lik'er, n. p. 387One who dislikes or disrelishes.Dis-limb', v. t. p. 387To tear the limbs from. [Obs.] Bailey.Dis-lĭmn', v. t. p. 387To strike out of a picture; to disfigure. [Obs. and very rare.] The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct, As water is in water. Shak.Dis-lĭnk', v. t. p. 387To unlink or separate. Whom the electric shock dislinked with shrieks and laughter. Tennyson.Dis-lĭve′, v. t. p. 387To deprive of life. [Obs.] Telemachus dislived Amphimedon. Chapman.Dis'lo-cate, a. p. 387Dislocated. Montgomery.Dis'lo-cāte, v. t. p. 387To displace; to put out of its proper place; especially, to put out of joint; to disjoint; to move from the proper socket, cavity, or place of articulation. And thus the archbishop’s see, dislocated…Dis'lo-cā'tion, n. p. 387The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced. Burnet. 2. (Geol.) The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situations which they originally occupied. Slips, faults…Dis-lŏdge', v. t. p. 387To drive from a lodge or place of rest; to remove from a place of quiet or repose; as, shells resting in the sea at a considerable depth are not dislodged by storms. 2. To drive out from a place of…Dis-lŏdge', v. i. p. 387To go from a place of rest. Milton.Dis-lŏdg'ment, n. p. 387The act or process of dislodging, or the state of being dislodged.Dis'lo-gis'tic, a. p. 387Not according to logical forms or principles; illogical. [Rare.] 2. Serving to disprove; refutatory. [Rare.]Dis-loign′, v. t. p. 387To put at a distance; to remove. [Obs.] Low-looking dales, disloigned from common gaze. Spenser.Dis-loy'al, a. p. 387Not loyal; not true in fact or feeling to a sovereign or lawful superior; false to allegiance; faithless; treacherous; as, a subject disloyal to the king; a husband disloyal to his wife. “Disloyal…Dis-loy'al-ly, adv. p. 387In a disloyal manner.Dis-loy'al-ty, n. p. 387Want of loyalty; lack of fidelity; violation of allegiance.Dis-māil', v. t. p. 387To deprive of a coat of mail; to cleave off.Dis'mal, a. p. 387Gloomy to the eye or ear; sorrowful and depressing to the feelings; foreboding; cheerless; dull; dark. “A dismal description of an English November.” Southey. Syn.—Dreary; lonesome; gloomy; dark…