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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'/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…Dis-prov'er, n. p. 391One who disproves or confutes.Dĭs' pro-vīde', v. t. p. 391To render unprovided. [Obs.] Boyle.Dis-pŭn'et', v. t. p. 391To point or mark off; to separate; to sever. [Obs.] Foxe.Dis-pūnct', a. p. 391Wanting in punctilious respect; discourteous. [Obs.] “That were dispunct to the ladies.” B. Jonson.Dis-pūn'ge', v. t. p. 391To expunge; to erase. 2. To discharge, as from a sponge. [Obs.] See DISPONGE.Dis-pūn'ish-a-ble, a. p. 391Without penal restraint; not punishable. Swift.Dis-pūr'pose, v. t. p. 391To divert from a purpose; to dissuade.Dis'pur-vey', v. t. p. 391To deprive of provision or preparation; to disfurnish; to strip. [Obs.] Heywood.Dis'pur-vey'ance, n. p. 391Want of provisions; lack of food. [Obs.] “Through dispurveyance long.” Spenser.Dis'pu-ta-ble, a. p. 391Capable of being disputed; liable to be called in question, controverted, or contested; of doubtful certainty or propriety; controvertible; as, disputable opinions, propositions, points, or…Dis'pu-ta-ble-ness, n. p. 391State of being disputable.Dis'pu-tā'c'i-ty, n. p. 391Proneness to dispute. [Obs.] Scott.Dis'pu-tant, n. p. 391One who disputes; one who argues in opposition to another; one appointed to dispute; a controvertist; a reasoner in opposition. A singularly eager, acute, and pertinacious disputant. Macaulay.Dis'pu-tant, a. p. 391Disputing; engaged in controversy. Milton.Dis'pu-tā'tion, n. p. 391The 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…Dis'pu-tā'tious, a. p. 391Inclined to dispute; apt to cavil or controvert; characterized by dispute; as, a disputatious person or temper. The Christian doctrine of a future life was no recommendation of the new religion to…Dis'pu-tā'tious-ly, adv. p. 391In a disputatious manner.Dis'pu-tā'tious-ness, n. p. 391Inclination to dispute.Dis-pū̆t'a-tīve, a. p. 391Disposed to dispute; inclined to cavil or to reason in opposition; as, a disputative temper. Watts.Dis-pūte', v. i. p. 391To contend in argument; to reason or argue a question for and against; to discuss; to debate; to altercate. Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews. Acts xvii. 17. 2. To strive or…Dis-pūte', v. t. p. 391To make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss. The rest I reserve until it be disputed how the magistrate is to do herein. Milton. 2. To strive or contend about; to contest; to…