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Frangible; separable; liable to be dostroyed by the disunion of its parts.

What is most dense, and least porous, will be most coherent and least discerptible. Glanville. Matter is moveable, this immoveable; matter discerptible, this indiscerptible. More. DISCERPTIBILITY. 2. s. [from discerptible.] Liableness to be destroyed by disunion of parts.

DISCERPTION. n.5. [from discerp.] The act of pulling to pieces, or destroying by disuniting the parts.

To DISCHARGE. v. a. [décharger, French.]

4. To disburden; to exonerate; to free from any load or inconvenience. How rich in humble poverty is he, Who leads a quiet country life; Discharg'd of business, void of strife! 2. To unload; to disembark.

Dryden.

I will convey them by sea in floats, unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged. Kings.

3. To throw off any thing collected or accumulated; to give vent to any thing; to let fly. It is used of any thing violent or sudden.

Mounting his eyes, He did disebarge a horrible oath. Shakspeare. Infected minds To their death pillows will discharge their secrets. Nor were those blust'ring brethren left at Shakspeare's Macbeth. large,

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On seas and shores their fury to discharge. Soon may kind heav'n a sure relief provide; Dryden's Ovid. Soon may your sire discharge the vengeance

due,

And all your wrongs the proud oppressors rue.

Pope's Odyssey.

Discharge thy shafts; this ready bosom rend. Pope's Statius.

To let off a gun.

A conceit runneth abroad, that there should be a white powder, which will discharge a piece

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of his duty, there would be no place left for the common offices of society. L'Estrange.

When they have taken a degree, and are consequently grown a burden to their friends, who now think themselves fully discharged, they get into orders as soon as they can. Swift.

To clear from an accusation or crime; to absolve: with of.

They wanted not reasons to be discharged of all blame, who are confessed to have no great fault, even by their very word and testimony, in whose eyes no fault of ours hath ever hitherto been esteemed to be small. Hooker

They are imprudent enough to discharge themselves of this blunder, by laying the contradiction at Virgil's door. Dryden

10. To perform; to execute.

Had I a hundred tongues, a wit so large
As could their hundred offices discharge.

Dryden's Fables. 11. To put away; to obliterate; to destroy.

It is done by little and little, and with many essays; but all this dischargeth not the wonder. Bacon's Natural History.

Trial would also be made in herbs poisonous and purgative, whose ill quality perhaps may be discharged, or attempered, by setting stronger poisons or purgatives by them. Bacon. 12. To divest of any office or employment; to dismiss from service: as, he discharged his steward; the soldier was discharged.

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13. To dismiss; to release; to send away from any business or appointment. Discharge your pow'rs unto their several counWhen Casar would have discharged the senate, Shakspeare. in regard of a dream of Calphurnia, this man told him, he hoped he would not dismiss the senate till his wife had dreamed a better dream. Bacon.

without noise. The galleys also did oftentimes, out of their Bacan. Prows, discharge their great pieces against the We discharged a pistol, and had the sound Knolles History; returned upon us fifty-six times, though the air was foggy. To clear a debt by payment. Addison on Italy. Death of one person can be paid but once, And that she has discharged. Now to the horrors of that uncouth place Shakspeare. He passage begs with unregarded pray'r, And wants two farthings to discharge his fare. When foreign trade imports more than our Dryden's Juvenal. commodities will pay for, we contract debts beyond sea; they will not take our goods to discharge them. and those are paid with money, when 4. To send away a creditor by payment. Locke.

If he had

The present money to discharge the Jew,

He would not take it.

7. To clear a debtor.

A grateful mind

Shakspeare.

By owing owes not, but still pays; at once

Indebted and discharg'd.

3. To set free from obligation.

Milton.

If one man's fault could discharge another man

14. To emit.

The matter being suppurated, I opened an inflamed tubercle in the great angle of the left eye, and discharged a well-concocted matter. Wiseman's Surgery. To dismiss it

To DISCHARGE. V. n. self; to break up. The cloud, if it were oily or fatty, would not discharge. Bacon's Natural History. DISCHARGE. n. s. [from the verb.] 1. Vent; explosion; emission.

As the heat of all springs is owing to subter raneous fire, so wherever there are any extraor dinary discharges of this fire, there also are the neighbouring springs hotter than ordinary. Woodward

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conscience, not barely by its not accusing, but by its not condemning us; which word imports. properly an acquaintance or discharge of a man upon some precedent accusation, and a full trial and cognizance of his cause. South. 7. Ransom; price of ransom.

O, all my hopes defeated

To free him hence! But death, who sets all free,

Hath paid his ransom now and full discharge.

3. Performance; execution.

Milton.

The obligations of hospitality and protection are sacred; nothing can absolve us from the discharge of those duties. L'Estrange. 9. An acquittance from a debt. zo. Exemption; privilege.

There is no discharge in that war, neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it. Ecclesiastes.

DISCHARGER. n. s. [from discharge.] 1. He that discharges in any manner. 2. He that fires a gun.'

To abate the bombilation of gunpowder, a way is promised by Porta, by borax and butter, which he says will make it so go off, as scarcely to be heard by the discharger. Brown. DISCINCT. adj. [discinctus, Latin.] Ungirded; loosely dressed. Dict. To DISCIND. v. a. [discindo, Latin.] To divide; to cut in pieces.

We found several concretions so soft, that we could easily discind them betwixt our fingers.

DISCIPLE. n. s. [discipulus, Latin ] A Royle scholar; one that professes to receive instructions from another.

He rebuked disciples who would call for fire from heaven upon whole cities, for the neglect of a few. King Charles.

The commemorating the death of Christ, is the professing ourselves the disciples of the crucified Saviour; and that engageth us to take up his cross and follow him. Hammond.

A young disciple should behave himself so well, as to gain the affection and, the ear of his

instructor.

Watts.

To DISCIPLE. v. a. [from the noun.]
1. To train; to bring up.
He did look far

Into the service of the time, and was
Discipled of the bravest.

Shakspeare

2. To punish; to discipline. This word
is not in use.

She, bitter penance! with an iron whip
Was wont him to disciple every day. Spenser.
DISCIPLESHIP. n. 3. [from disciple.]
The state or function of a disciple, or
follower of a master.

That to which justification is promised, is the giving up of the whole soul intirely unto Christ, undertaking discipleship upon Christ's terms. Hammond's Practical Catechism.

DISCIPLINABLE. adj. [disciplinabilis, Latin] Capable of instruction; capable of improvement by discipline and learning.

DISCIPLINABLENESS. . . [from dis

ciplinable.] Capacity of instruction; qualification for improvement by edu cation and discipline.

We find in animals, especially some of them, as foxes, dogs, apes, horses, and elephants, not

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only perception, phantasy, and memory, com mon to most if not all animals, but something of sagacity, providence, and disciplinableness. Hale. DISCIPLINARIAN. adj. [from discipline.] Pertaining to discipline.

What eagerness in disciplinarian uncertainties, when the love of God and our neighbour, evangelical unquestionables, are neglected! DISCIPLINARIAN. n. 4. [disciplina, LaGlanville's Scepsis. tin.]

1. One who rules or teaches with great strictness; one who allows no deviation from stated rules.

2. A follower of the presbyterian sect, so called from their perpetual clamour about discipline.

They draw those that dissent into dislike with
the state, as puritans, or disciplinarians.
Sanders. Pax. Eccl.

DISCIPLINARY. adj. [disciplina, Latin.]
1. Pertaining to discipline.
2. Relating to government.

Those canons in behalf of marriage were only disciplinary, grounded on prudential motives, Bishop Ferne. 3. Relating to a regular course of edu

cation.

These are the studies, wherein our noble and gentle youth ought to bestow their time in a disciplinary way. Milton.

DISCIPLINE. n. s. [disciplina, Latin.] 1. Education; instruction; the act of cultivating the mind; the act of forming the manners.

He had charge my discipline to frame, And tutors nouriture to oversee. Spenser. The cold of the northern parts is that which, without aid of discipline, doth make the bodies hardest, and the courage warmest. Bacon.

They who want that sense of discipline, hearing, are also by consequence deprived of speech.

Holder.

It is by the assistance of the eye and the ear especially, which are called the senses of disci pline, that our minds are furnished with various parts of knowledge.

Watts.

2. Rule of government; order; method of government.

3.

They hold, that from the very apostles time till this present age, wherein yourselves imagine ye have found out a right pattern of sound dis cipline, there never was any time safe to be fol lowed.

Hooker.

As we are to believe for ever the articles of evangelical doctrine, so the precepts of discipline we are, in like sort, bound for ever to observe. Hooker.

While we do admire

This virtue and this moral discipline,
Let's be no stoicks.

Military regulation.

Shakspeare.

This opens all your victories in Scotland, Your discipline in war, wisdom in peace. Shaks.

Let crooked steel invade

The lawless troops which discipline disclaim,
And their superfluous growth with rigour tame.

4. A state of subjection.

Dryden.

The most perfect, who have their passions in the best discipline, are yet obliged to be constantly on their guard.

Rogers.

5. Any thing taught; art; science.

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Art may be said to overcome and advance mature in these mechanical disciplines, which, in this respect, are much to be preferred. Wilkins. 6. Punishment; chastisement; correction.

A lively cobler kicked and spurred while his wife was carrying him, and had scarce passed a day without giving her the discipline of the strap. Addison's Spectator.

7. External mortification.

The love of God makes a man chaste without
the laborious arts of fasting and exterior disci-
pline; he reaches at glory without any other
arms but those o love.
To DISCIPLINE. v. a. [from the noun.]
Taylor.
1. To educate; to instruct; to bring up.
We are wise enough to begin when they are
very young, and discipline by times, those other
creatures we would make useful and good for
somewhat.
Locke.

They were with care prepared and disciplined
for confirmation, which they could not arrive at
till they were found, upon examination, to have
made a sufficient progress in the knowledge of
christianity.
Addison on the Christ. Religion.

2. To regulate; to keep in order.
They look to us, as we should judge of an
army of well disciplined soldiers at a distance.
Derham's Astro-Theology.
3. To punish; to correct; to chastise.

4. To advance by instruction.

3.

The law appear'd imperfect, and but giv'n
With purpose to resign them in full time
Up to a better covenant, disciplin'd
From shadowy types to truth, from flesh to
spirit.

Milton.

To DISCLAIM. v. a. [dis and claim.] To disown; to deny any knowledge of; to retract any union with; to abrogate; to renounce,

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layeth her eggs under sand, where the heat of the sun discloseth them. Bacon.

To reveal; to tell; to impart what is

secret.

There may be a reconciliation, except for upbraiding, or pride, or disclosing of secrets, or a treacherous wound; for from these things every friend will depart. Ecclus.

If I disclose my passion,
Our friendship's at an end; if I conceal it,
The world will call me false.
DISCLOSER. n. s. [from disclose.] One
Addison's Cato.
that reveals or discovers.
DISCLO ́SURE. n.s. [from disclose.]
1. Discovery; production into view.

You cowardly rascal! nature disclaims all share in thee; a taylor made thee. Shakspeare. He calls the gods to witness their offence; Disclaims the war, asserts his innocence. Dryd. We find our Lord, on all occasions, disclaiming all pretensions to a temporal kingdom.

2.

The producing of cold is a thing very worthy the inquisition, both for the use, and disclosure of causes. Bacon.

Act of revealing any thing secret. After so happy a marriage between the king and her daughter, she was, upon a sudden mutability and disclosure of the king's mind, severely DISCLUSION. n. s. [disclusus, Latin.] handled. Bacon Emission.

Very few, among those who profess themRogers. selves christians, disclaim all concern for their souls, disown the authority, or renounce the expectations, of the gospel. DISCLAIMER. n. 5. [from disclaim.] Rogers. 1. One that disclaims, disowns, or re

nounces.

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2. (In law.] A plea containing an express denial or refusal. Cowell.

TO DISCLOSE. v. a. [discludo, Latin;

dis and close.]

Judge what a ridiculous thing it were, that the continued shadow of the earth should be broken by sudden miraculous eruptions and disclusions of light, to prevent the art of the lanthorn-maker. More. DISCOLORATION. n. s. [from discolour.] 1. The act of changing the colour; the act of staining.

1. To uncover; to produce from a state

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of latitancy to open view.

In this deep quiet, from what source un-
known,

2. Change of colour; stain; die.

Those seeds of fire their fatal birth disclose;
And first few scatt'ring sparks about were

blown,

Big with the flames that to our ruin rose.

In a depravation of the humours from a sound state to what the physicians call by a general T DISCOLOUR. v. a. [decoloro, Lat.] name of a cacochymy, spots and discolorations of the skin are signs of weak fibres. Arbuthnot. To change from the natural hue; to stain.

Then earth and ocean various forms disclose.
Dryden.
Dryden.

The shells being broken, struck off, and gone,
the stone included in them is thereby disclosed.

and set at liberty.

2. To hatch; to open.

Woodward.

It is reported by the ancients, that the ostrich

Many a widow's husband groveling lies,
Coldly embracing the discolour'd earth. Shaksp
Drink water, either pure, or but discoloured
with malt.
Temple

Suspicions, and fantastical surmise,
And jealousy, with jaundice in her eyes,
Discolouring all she view'd.

Dryden

He who looks upon the soul through its outward actions, sees it through a deceitful medium, which is apt to discolour and pervert the object. Spectator.

Have a care lest some beloved notion, or some darling science, so prevail over your mind as to discolour all your ideas. To DISCO MFIT. v. a. [desconfire, Fr. Watts. sconfiggere, Ital. as if from disconfigere, Lat.] To defeat; to con. 1er; to vanquish; to overpower; to subdue; to beat; to overthrow.

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Fly you must incurable discomfit
Reigns in the hearts of all our present party.
Shakspeare.
Dagon must stoop, and shall ere long receive
Such a discomfit, as shall quite despoil him
Of all these boasted trophies.
Milton's Agonistes.
DISCO MFITURE. 7. s. [from discomfit.]
Defeat; loss of battle; rout; ruin;
overthrow.

Sad tidings bring I to you out of France,
Of loss, of slaughter, and discon fiture. Shaksp.
Behold every man's sword was against his
fellow, and there was a very great discomfiture.
1 Samuel.

'What a defeat and discomfiture is it to a man, when he comes to use this wealth, to find it all false metal. Government of the Tongue. He sent his angels to fight for his people; and the discomfiture and slaughter of great hosts is attributed to their assistance. Atterbury. DISCOMFORT. n. s. [dis and comfort.] Uneasiness sorrow; melancholy; gloom.

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This himself did foresee, and therefore armed his church, to the end they might sustain it without discomfort. Hooker.

Discomfort guides my tongue,
And bids me speak of nothing but despair.

Shakspeare.
In solitude there is not only discomfort, but
weakness also.
Soush.
To DISCOMFORT. v. a. [from the noun.]
To grieve; to sadden; to deject.
Her champion went away discomforted as
much as discomfited.

Sidney.

His funeral shall not be in our camp,
Lest it discomfort us.
Shakspeare.
DISCOMFORTABLE. adj. [from discom-
fort.]

4. That is melancholy and refuses com-
fort.

Discomfortable cousin know'st thou not That when the searching eye of Heav'n is hid Behind the globe, it lights the lower world?

4. That causes sadness.

Shakspeare.

What! did that help poor Dorus, whose eyes could carry unto him no other news but discomfortable! Sidney. TO DISCOMMEND. v. a. [dis and commend.} To blame; to censure; to mention with disapprobation.

Absolutely we cannot discommend, we cannot absolutely approve, either willingness to live or forwardness to die. Hooker.

Now you will all be wits; and he, I pray, And you, that discommend it, mend the play. Denham. Neither do I discommend the lofty style in tragedy, which is naturally pompous and magnificent. Dryden. DISCOMMENDABLE. adj. [from discommend.] Blamable; censurable; deserving blame.

Pusillanimity is, according to Aristotle's morality, a vice very discommendable. Ayliffe's Par. DISCOMMENDABLENESS. n. s. [from discommendable.] Blamableness; liable

ness to censure.

Dict. DISCOMMENDATION. n. s. [from discommend.] Blame; reproach; censure.

Tully assigns three motives, whereby, without any discommendation, a man might be drawn to ¡become an accuser of others. Azliffe's Par.

DISCOMME NDER. n.

s. [from discommend.] One that discommends; a dispraiser.

To DISCOMMO ́DE. v. a. [dis and com-
made, Fr.] To put to inconvenience;
to molest; to incommode.
DISCOMMO DIOUS. adj. [from discom-
mode.] Inconvenient; troublesome;
unpleasing.

So many thousand soldiers, unfit for any labour, or other trade, must either seek service and employment abroad, which may be dangerous; or else employ themselves here at home, which may be discommodious. Spenser on Ireland. DISCOMMODITY. n. s. [from discommode.] Inconvenience; disadvantage; hurt; mischief.

We speak now of usury, how the discommodities of it may be best avoided, and the commodities retained: or how, in the balance of commodities and discommodities, the qualities of usury are to be reconciled. Bacon.

It is better that a ship should be preserved with some discommodity to the sailors, than that, the sailors being in health, the ship should perish. Hayward. To DISCOMPO ́SE. v. a. [décomposer, French.]

1. To disorder; to unsettle.

The debate upon the self-denying ordnance had raised many jealousies, and discomposed the confidence that had formerly been between many Clarendon

of them.

2. To ruffle; to disorder.

Now Betty from her master's bed had flown, And softly stole to discompose her own. Swift. 3. To disturb the temper; to agitate by perturbation.

4.

No more, dear mother: ill in death it shows, Your peace of mind by rage to discompose. Dryd. To offend, to fret; to vex.

Men, who possess all the advantages of life, are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please them. Swift. 5. To displace; to discard: Not in use. Though he was a dark prince, and infinitely suspicious, he never put down or discomposed a counsellor or near servant.

Bacon.

DISCOMPO'SURE. n. s. [from discompose.]
Disorder; perturbation.

He threw himself upon his bed, lamenting with much passion, and with abundance of tears; and continued in this melancholick discomposure of mind many days. Glarendon

To DISCONCERT. v. a. [dis and concert.} 1. To unsettle the mind; to discompose. You need not provoke their spirits by outrages: a careless gesture, a word, or a look, is enough to disconcert them. Collier. 2. To break a scheme; to defeat a machination,

DISCONFORMITY. n. s. [dis and conformity.] Want of agreement; inconsistency.

Lyes arise from errour and mistake, or malice and forgery; they consist in the disagreement and disconformity betwixt the speech and the conception of the mind, or the conception of the mind and the things themselves, or the speech and the things. Hakerill on Providence. DISCONGRUITY. n. s. [dis and congruity.] Disagreement; inconsistency.

There is want of capacity in the thing, to sustain such a duration, from the intrinsical discongruity of the one to the other. Hale. Disco'NSOLATE. adj. [dis and console.] Void of comfort; hopeless; sorrowful; melancholy.

See Cassius all disconsolate,

With Pindarus his bondman, on this hill.

Shakspeare.

If patiently thy bidding they obey,
Dismiss them not disconsolate.
Milton.
The ladies and the knights, no shelter nigh,
Were dropping wet, disconsolate and wan,
And through their thin array receiv'd the rain.
Dryden.

The moon reflects the sunbeams to us, and so,
by illuminating the air, takes away in some
measure the disconsolate darkness of our winter
nights.
DISCONSOLATELY. adv. [from discon-
Ray.
solate.] In a disconsolate manner;
comfortlessly.

DISCONSOLATENESS. . s. [from dis. Consolate.] The state of being disconsolate.

DISCONTENT. . s. [dis and content.] Want of content; uneasiness at the present state.

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I see your brows full of discontent,
Your hearts of sorrow, and your eyes of tears.
Shakspeare.

went.

Not that their pleasures caus'd her discontent, She sigh'd, not that they stay'd, but that she DISCONTENT. adj. [dis and content.] Pope. Uneasy at the present state; dissatis

fied.

They were of their own nature circumspect and slow, discountenanced and discontent; and those the earl singled as fittest for his purpose. Hayward.

TO DISCONTENT. v. a. [from the noun.] To dissatisfy; to make uneasy at the present state.

famous church, wherein they live, were more noisome than any dungeon. Hooker.

The politick and artificial nourishing and entertaining of hopes, and carrying men from hopes to hopes, is one of the best antidotes against the poison of discontentments. Bacon. DISCONTINUANCE. n. s. [from discontinue.]

1. Want of cohesion of parts; want of union of one part with another; disruption.

I know a discontented gentleman, Whose humble means match not his haughty spirit. The discontented now are only they Shakspeare. Whose crimes before did your just cause beDISCONTENTED. participial adj. [from Dryden. discontent.] Uneasy; cheerless; malevolent.

tray.

Let us know

What will tie up your discontented sword.

The stillicides of water, if there be enough to follow, will draw themselves into a small thread, because they will not discontinue; but if there be no remedy, then they cast themselves into round drops, which is the figure that saveth the body most from discontinuance. Bacon

2. Cessation; intermission.

Let us consider whether our approaches to him are sweet and refreshing, and if we are uneasy under any long discontinuance of our conversation with him. 3. [In the common law.] An interrupAtterbury. tion or breaking off; as discontinuance of possession, or discontinuance of process. The effect of discontinuance of possession is, that a man may not enter upon his own land or tenement alienated, whatsoever his right be unto it, or by his own authority; but must seek to recover possession by law. The effect of discontinuance of plea is, that the instance may not be taken up again, but by a new writ to begin the suit afresh. Cowell. DISCONTINUATION. n. s. [from discontinue.] Disruption of continuity; breach of union of parts; disruption; separation.

These are, beyond comparison, the two Shakspeare. greatest evils in this world; a diseased body, and a discontented mind. Tillotson.

The goddess, with a discontented air,
Seems to reject him, tho' she grants his pray'r.

Pope

DISCONTENTEDNESS. n. s. [from discontented.] Uneasiness; want of ease; dissatisfaction.

A beautiful bust of Alexander the Great Casts up his face to heaven with a noble air of grief, or discontentedness, in his looks. DISCONTENTMENT. n. s. [from disconAddison. tent.] The state of being discontented;

uneasiness.

These are the vices that fill them with general discontentment, as though the bosom of that

Upon any discontinuation of parts, made either by bubbles, or by shaking the glass, the whole mercury falls. Newton. To DISCONTINUE. v. n. [discontinuer, French.]

1. To lose the cohesion of parts; to suffer separation or disruption of substance.

All bodies, ductile and tensile, as metals, that will be drawn into wires; wool and tow, that will be drawn into yarn, or thread; have in them the appetite of not discontinuing strong, which maketh them follow the force that pulieth them out, and yet so as not to discontinue or forsake their own body. Bacon.

2. To lose an established or prescriptive custom or right.

Thyself shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee, and I will catse thee to serve thine enemies. Jeremiab.

To DISCONTINUE, v. a.

1. To leave off; to cease any practice or
habit.

Twenty puny lyes I'll tell,
That men shall swear I've discontinued school
Above a twelvemonth,
Shakspeare,

Examine thy customs of diet, sleep, exercise, apparel, and the like; and try, in any thou shalt judge hurtful, to discontinue it by little and little; but so, as if thou find any inconvenience by the change, thou come back to it again. Bacon.

2. To break off; to interrupt.

There is that property, in all letters, of aptness to be conjoined in syllables and words,

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