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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-pōrt', n. p. 390Play; sport; pastime; diversion. Milton.Dis-pōrt', v. i. p. 390To play; to wanton; to move in gayety; to move lightly and without restraint. Where light disports in ever-mingling dyes. Pope.Dis-pōrt’, v. t. p. 390To divert or amuse; as, he disports himself. Shak. 2. To remove from a port; to carry away.Dis-pōrt’ment, n. p. 390Act of disporting; diversion; play. [Obs.] More.Dis-pōs'a-ble, a. p. 390Subject to disposal; liable to be disposed of; not already engaged or employed; free to be used or employed as occasion may require; not assigned to any service or use. The great riches of this…Dis-pōz'al, n. p. 390The act of disposing, or disposing of; arrangement; orderly distribution; a putting in order; as, the disposal of the troops in two lines. 2. Ordering; regulation; adjustment; management; government.…Dis-pōse′, v. t. p. 390To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent. The rest themselves in troops did else dispose. Spenser. 2. To regulate; to fix; to…Dis-pōse′, v. i. p. 390To bargain; to make terms. [Obs.] She hath disposed with Caesar. Shak.Dis-pōse', n. p. 390Act or power of disposing or disposing of; disposal; ordering; management. [Obs.] But such is the dispose of the sole Disposer of empires. Speed. 2. Cast of mind or of behavior; disposition…Dis-pōsed', p. a. p. 390Inclined; minded. 2. Inclined to mirth; wantonly merry; jolly. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.Dis-pōs'ed-ness, n. p. 390The state of being disposed or inclined; inclination; propensity. Mountagu.Dis-pōse'ment, n. p. 390Disposal; arrangement. [Obs.] Goodwin.Dis-pōs'er, n. p. 390One who, or that which, disposes; a regulator; a director; a bestower. “Absolute lord and disposer of all things.” Barrow.Dis-pōs'ing-ly, adv. p. 390In a disposing manner; in a manner to arrange or regulate. Montagu.Dis-pŏs'it-ed, a. p. 390Disposed. [Obs.] Glanville.Dis′po-si′tion, n. p. 390The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, or regulating; application; disposal; as, disposition of property. The disposition of the work, to put all things in a beautiful order and harmony, that the…Dis'po-si'tion-al, a. p. 391Pertaining to disposition.Dis-pŏs'i-tive, a. p. 391Disposing; tending to dispose, order, or regulate. [Obs.] “His dispositive wisdom and power.” Bates. 2. Belonging to disposition or natural tendency. [Obs.] “Dispositive holiness.” Bp. Taylor.Dis-pŏz'ĭ-tive-ly, adv. p. 391In a dispositive manner; by natural or moral disposition; qualitatively. [Obs.] Do dispositively what Moses is recorded to have done literally, . . . break all the ten commandments at once. Boyle.Dis-pŏs'it-or, n. p. 391A disposer. 2. (Astrol.) The planet which is lord of the sign where another planet is. [Obs.]Dis′/pos-sĕss′, v. t. p. 391To put out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy of, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to eject;—usually followed by of before the thing taken away; as, to dispossess a…Dis'/pos-sĕs'sion, n. p. 391The act of putting out of possession; the state of being dispossessed. Hall. 2. (Law.) An injury to real property which consists of an amotion or deprivation of possession; — otherwise called ouster.…Dis’pos-sess’or, n. p. 391One who dispossesses. Cowley.Dis-post', v. t. p. 391To eject from a post; to remove from office or authority; to displace. [Rare.]Dis-pō'zure, n. p. 391The act of disposing; power to dispose of; disposal; direction. Give up My estate to his disposure. Massinger. 2. Disposition; arrangement or position; posture. [Obs.] “In a kind of warlike…Dis-prai'se', n. p. 391The act of dispraising; detraction from praise; blame; censure; reproach; dishonor; disparagement. The general has seen Moors with as bad faces; no dispraise to Bertran's. Dryden.Dis-praïse', v. t. p. 391To withdraw praise from; to notice with disapprobation or some degree of censure; to blame. I dispraised him before the wicked. Shak.Dis-prāis'er, n. p. 391One who blames or dispraises.Dis-prais'a-ble, a. p. 391Worthy of dispraise; deserving censure; blamable. [Obs.] Bailey.Dis-prais'ing-ly, adv. p. 391By way of dispraise; with blame or some degree of reproach.Dis-prēad′, v. t. p. 391To spread abroad; to expand widely; to extend in different directions. Scantly they durst their feeble eyes dispread Upon that town. Fairfax.Dis-prēad’, v. i. p. 391To expand; to be spread or extended. Thomson.Dis-prēad'er, n. p. 391One who spreads abroad. Milton.Dis-prĕj'ū-dĭçe, v. t. p. 391To free from prejudice. [Obs.] Mountagu.Dis'pre-pâre', v. t. p. 391To render unprepared. [Obs.] Hobbes.Dis-prince',, v. t. p. 391To deprive of princeliness; to make unlike a prince, in character, appearance, or attire. [Rare.] • For I was drenched with ooze, and torn with briars, ... And, all one rag, disprinced from head to…Dis-pris'on, v. t. p. 391To let loose from prison; to set at liberty; to liberate. Bulwer.Dis-prĭv'i-lege, v. t. p. 391To deprive of a privilege. [Obs.]Dis-prize', v. t. p. 391To undervalue. Cotton.Dis'pro-fess', v. t. p. 391To renounce the profession of. His arms, which he had vowed to disprofess. Spencer.Dis-prōf'it, n. p. 391Loss; detriment; damage. [Rare.] Foxe.Dis-prŏf'it, v. i. p. 391To fail to profit; to lose. Bale.Dis-próf'it-a-ble, a. p. 391Unprofitable. [Obs.] Hall.Dis-prōof', n. p. 391A proving to be false or erroneous; confutation; refutation; as, to offer evidence in disproof of a fact, argument, principle, or allegation.Dis-prŏp'er-ty, v. t. p. 391To cause to be no longer property; to plunder. [Obs.] Shak.Dis'pro-pōr'tion, n. p. 391Want of proportion in quantity; want of symmetry; as, the disproportion of a man's arms to his body; the disproportion of the length of an edifice to its height. 2. Want of suitableness or adequacy…Dis’pro-pōr’tion, v. t. p. 391To make unsuitable in quantity, form, or fitness to an end; to violate symmetry in; to mismatch; to join unfitly. To shape my legs of an unequal size, To disproportion me in every part. Shak. A…Dis'pro-pōr'tion-a-ble, a. p. 391Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate.Dis'pro-pōr'tion-a-ble-ness, n. p. 391Want of proportion or symmetry; unsuitableness. Hammond.Dis'pro-pōr'tion-a-bly, adv. p. 391With want of proportion or symmetry; unsuitably. Tillotson.Dis'pro-pōr'tion-al, a. p. 391Not having due proportion to something else; not having proportion or symmetry of parts; unsuitable in form or quantity; unequal; inadequate; as, a disproportional limb constitutes deformity in the…Dis'pro-pōr'tion-āl'i-ty, n. p. 391The state of being disproportional.Dis'pro-pōr'tion-al-ly, adv. p. 391Unsuitably with respect to form, quantity, or value; inadequately; unequally.Dis'pro-pōr'tion-ate, a. p. 391Not proportioned; unsymmetrical; unsuitable to something else in bulk, form, or value; inadequate; as, in a perfect form of the body, none of the limbs are disproportionate; it is wisdom not to…Dis'pro-pōr'tion-ate-ly, adv. p. 391In a disproportionate degree; unsuitably; inadequately.Dis'pro-pōr'tion-ate-ness, n. p. 391Unsuitableness in quantity, form, or fitness; inadequacy.Dis-prŏ'pri-āte, v. t. p. 391To destroy the appropriation of; to disappropriate. Anderson.Dis-prov'a-ble, a. p. 391Capable of being disproved or refuted. Boyle.Dis-prov'al, n. p. 391Act of disproving; disproof.Dis-prove', v. t. p. 391To prove to be false or erroneous; to confute. That false supposition I advanced in order to disprove it. Atterbury. 2. To convict of error; to refute. [Obs.] Hooker. 3. To disallow; to disapprove…