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DISHARMONY. n. s. [dis and harmony.]
Contrariety to harmony.

To DISHEARTEN. v. a. [dis and hearten.]
To discourage; to deject; to terrify;
to depress.

To dishearten with fearful sentences, as though salvation could hardly be hoped for, is not so consonant with christian charity. Hooker. Be not disheartened then, nor cloud those looks That wont to be more chearful and serene.

Milton. Yet neither thus dishearten'd nor dismay'd, The time prepar'd I waited.

friends.

Milton.

It is a consideration that might dishearten those who are engaged against the common adversaries, that they promise themselves as much from the folly of enemies, as from the power of their Stilling feet. Men cannot say, that the greatness of an evil and danger is an encouragement to men to run upon it; and that the greatness of any good and happiness ought in reason to dishearten men from the pursuit of it. Tillotson.

A true christian fervour is more than the alliances of our potent friends, or even the fears of our disheartened enemies, Atterbury. DISHE'RISON. n. s. [dis and berison.] The act of debarring from inheritance. To DISHE RIT. v. a, [dis and inherit.] To cut off from hereditary succession; to debar from an inheritance.

He tries to restore to their rightful heritage such good old English words as have been long time out of use, almost disberited. Spenser.

Nor how the Dryads and the woodland train Disberited, ran howling o'er the plain. Dryden. To DISHE VEL. v. a. [decheveler, Fr.] To spread the hair disorderly; to throw the hair of a woman negligently about

her head. It is not often used but in the passive participle.

A gentle lady all alone,
With garments rent and hair dishevelled,
Wringing her hands, and making piteous moan.
Spenser.
After followed great numbers of women
weeping, with dishevelled hair, scratching their
faces, and tearing themselves, after the manner
of the country.
Knolles.

A troop of Trojans mix'd with these appear,
And mourning matrons with dishevell'd hair.
Dryden's Eneid.
The flames, involv'd in smoke,
Of incense, from the sacred altar broke,
Caught her dishevell'd hair and rich attire.
Dryden's Æneid.
You this morn beheld his ardent eyes,
Saw his arm lock'd in her disbevell'd hair. Smith.,
DISHING. adj. [from dish.] Concave:
a cant term among artificers.

For the form of the wheels, some make them more dishing, as they call it, than others; that is, more concave, by setting off the spokes and fellies more outwards. Mortimer.

DISHO NEST. adj. [dis and bonest.]
1. Void of probity; void of faith; faith-
less; wicked; fraudulent.

Justice then was neither blind to discern, nor lame to execute. It was not subject to be imposed upon by a deluded fancy, nor yet to be bribed by a glozing appetite, for an utile or jucundum to turn the balance to a false or dishonest South

sentence.

He lays it down as a principle, that right and wrong, honest and dishonest, are defined only by laws, and not by nature, Locke,

2. Unchaste; lewd.

To-morrow will we be married.I do desire it with all my heart; and I hope it is no dishonest desire, to desire to be a woman of the world. Shakspeare's As you like it.

3. Disgraced; dishonoured.
Dishonest with lopp'd arms the youth appears,
Spoil'd of his nose, and shorten'd of his ears.

Dryden. 4. Disgraceful; ignominious. These two senses are scarcely English, being borrowed from the Latin idiom.

Pope.

She saw her sons with purple death expire,
Her sacred domes involv'd in rolling fire;
A dreadful series of intestine wars,
Inglorious triumphs, and dishonest scars.
DISHONESTLY. adv. [from dishonest.]
1. Without faith; without probity; faith-
lessly; wickedly.

I protest he had the chain of me,
Tho' most dishonestly he doth deny it.
2. Lewdly; wantonly; unchastely.

Shaksp.

A wise daughter should bring an inheritance to her husband; but she that liveth dishonestly is her father's heaviness. Ecclesiasticus. DISHONESTY. n. s. [from dishonest.] 1. Want of probity; faithlessness; violation of trust.

Their fortune depends upon their credit, and a stain of open public dishonesty must be to their disadvantage. Swift. 2. Unchastity; incontinence; lewdness. Mrs. Ford, the honest woman, the modest wife, the virtuous creature, that hath the jealous fool to her husband! I suspect without cause, mistress, do I?-Heaven be my witness you do, if you suspect me in any dishonesty. Shaksp. DISHONOUR. . s. [dis and honour.] 1. Reproach; disgrace; ignominy. Let not my jealousies be your dishonours, But mine own safeties. Shaksp. Macbeth. He was pleased to own Lazarus even in the dishonours of the grave, and vouchsafed him, in that despicable condition, the glorious title of his friend. Boyle's Scrapbick Love. Take him for your husband and your lord; "Tis no dishonour to confer your grace On one descended from a royal race. 2. Reproach uttered; censure; report infamy.

Dryden. of

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So good, that no tongue could ever
Pronounce dishonour of her; by my life
She never knew harm doing.
To DISHONOUR. v. a. [dis and honour.]
1. To disgrace; to bring shame upon; to
blast with infamy.

It is no vicious blot, murther, or foulness,
No unchaste action, or dishonour'd step,
That hath depriv'd me of your grace and favour.
Shakspeare.

This no more dishonours you at all,
Than to take in a town with gentle words,
Which else would put you to your fortune.
Shaksp

A woman that honoureth her husband, shall be judged wise of all: but she that disbonoureth him in her pride, shall be counted ungodly of all

Ecclesiasticus.

We are not so much to strain ourselves to
make those virtues appear in us which really we
have rot, as to avoid those imperfections which
may disbonour us,
Dryden's Dufresney.

2. To violate chastity.
To treat with indignity.
One glimpse of glory to my issue give,

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TO DISHO'RN. v. a. [dis and horn.] To
strip of horns.

We'll disborn the spirit,
And mock him home to Windsor.
DISHUMOUR. n. s. [dis and humour.]
Shaksp.
Peevishness; ill humour; uneasy state

of mind.

Speaking impatiently to servants, or any thing that betrays inattention or disbumour, are also Spectator.

criminal.

DISIMPROVEMENT. n. s. [dis and improvement.] Reduction from a better to a worse state; the contrary to melioration; the contrary to improve

ment.

The final issue of the matter would be, an utter neglect and disimprovement of the earth.

Norris.

I cannot see how this kingdom is at any height of improvement, while four parts in five of the plantations, for thirty years past, have been real disimprovements. To DISINCARCERATE. v. a. [dis and Swift. incarcerate.] To set at liberty; to free from prison.

The arsenical bodies being now coagulated, and kindled into flaming atoms, require dry and warm air, to open the earth for to disincarcerate the same venene bodies." DISINCLINATION. n. s. [from disinHarvey. cline.] Want of affection; slight; dislike; ill-will not heightened to aver

sion.

Disappointment gave him a disinclination to the fair sex, for whom he does not express all the respect possible. To DISINCLINE. v. a. Arbuthnot and Pope. To produce dislike to; to make disaf[dis and incline.] fected; to alienate affection from.

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They were careful to keep up the fears and apprehensions in the people of dangers and designs, and to disincline them from any reverence or affection to the queen, whom they begun every day more implacably to hate, and consequently to disoblige." DISINGENUITY. 7, s. [from disingenuClarendon. ous.] Meanness of artifice; unfair

ness.

They contract a habit of ill-nature and disingenuity necessary to their affairs, and the temper of those upon whom they are to work. Clarendon.

DISINGENUOUS. adj. [dis and ingenų

low craft.

I might press them with the unreasonableness, the disingenuousness, of embracing a profes sion to which their own hearts have an inward reluctance. DISINHE RISON. n. s. [dis and inherit.] Government of the Tongue. 1. The act of cutting off from any hereditary succession; the act of disinheriting.

If he stood upon his own title of the house of Lancaster, inherent in his person, he knew it was a title condemned by parliament, and generally prejudged, in the common opinion of the realm, that it tended directly to the disinberison of the line of York. Bacon's Henry VIL The chief minister of the revenue was obliged to prevent, and even oppose, such disinherison. Clarendon.

2. The state of being cut off from an hereditary right.

In respect of the effects and evil consequences, the adultery of the woman is worse, as bringing bastardy into a family, and disinberisons or great injuries to the lawful children. Taylor.

To DISINHERIT. v. a. [dis and inherit.]
To cut off from an hereditary right;
to deprive of an inheritance.

Is it then just with us to disinherit
The unborn nephews for the father's fault?

Davies.

Unmuffle, ye faint stars; and thou, fair moon,
Stoop thy pale visage through an amber cloud,
And disinherit chaos that reigns here
In double night of darkness, and of slander.

Milton.

Posterity stands curs'd! fair patrimony,
That I must leave ye, sons! O were I able
To waste it all myself, and leave ye none;
So disinherited, how would ye bless
Me, now your curse!

Milton.

Of how fair a portion Adam disinherited his whole posterity by one single prevarication!

South.

To DISINTER. v.a. [from dis and inter.] To unbury; to take as out of the grave. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero, the wise, the good, or the great man, very often lie hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred. Addison. DISINTERESSED. adj. [dis and interesse, French. It is written disinterested by those who derive it immediately from interest, and I think more properly.] Void of regard to private ad

vantage; not biassed by particular views; impartial.

Not that tradition's parts are useless here, When general, old, disinteress'd, and clear.

Dryden. DISINTERESSMENT. n. s. [dis and interessement, French.] Disregard to private advantage; disinterest; disinterestedness. This word, like charges in the same sentence, is merely Gallick.

He has managed some of the charges of the kingdom with known ability, and laid them down with entire disinteressment.

Prior's Postscript.
DISINTEREST. n. s. [dis and interest.]
1. What is contrary to one's wish or
prosperity; that which any one is con-
cerned to prevent.

They judge it the great disinterest to Rome.
Glanville.

2. Indifference to profit; superiority to
regards of private advantage.
DISINTERESTED. adj. [from disinterest.]
1. Superiour to regard of private advan-
tage; not influenced by private profit.
As disinterested as you appear to the world, no
man is more in the power of that prevailing fa-
vourite passion than yourself.

Swift.

2. Without any concern in an affair; without fear or hope. DISINTERESTEDLY. adv. [from disinterested.] In a disinterested manner. DISINTERESTEDNESS. n. s. [from disinterested.] Contempt of private interest; neglect of personal profit.

These expressions of selfishness and disinterestedness have been used in a very loose and indeterminate manner. Bronun. To DISINTRICATE. v. a. [dis and intricate.] To disentangle. Dict. To DISINVITE. v. a. [dis and invite.] To retract an invitation. Dict. To DISJOIN. v. a. [dejoindre, Fr. dis and join.] To separate; to part from each other; to disunite; to sunder. Never shall my harp thy praise Forget, nor from thy father's praise disjoin.

Lest different degree

Milton.

Disjoin us, and I then too late renounce
Deity for thee, when fate will not permit.

Milton.

Happier for me, that all our hours assign'd
Together we had liv'd; ev'n not in death dis-
join'd.
Never let us lay down our arms against
Dryden.
France, till we have utterly disjoined her from
the Spanish monarchy.
Addison.

To DISJOINT. v. a. [dis and joint.]
1. To put out of joint.

Be all their ligaments at once unbound,
And their disjointed bones to powder ground.
Sandys.

Yet what could swords or poison, racks or
flame,

But mangle and disjoint the brittle frame?
More fatal Henry's words; they murder Em-
ma's fame.
Prior.

2. To break at junctures; to separate at
the part where there is a cement.
Mould'ring arches, and disjointed columns.

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Young Fontinbras,

Holding a weak supposal of our worth,
Thinks by our late dear brother's death
Our state to be disjoint and out of frame. Shaks.
DISJUDICATION. n. s. [dijudicatio, Lat. ]
Judgment; determination: perhaps
only mistaken for dijudication.

The disposition of the organ is of great im-
portance in the disjudications we make of colours.
DISJUNCT. adj. [disjunctus, Lat.] Dis-
Boyle on Colours.
DISJUNCTION. n. s. [from disjunctio,
joined; separate.
Lat.] Disunion; separation; parting.
You may
Enjoy your mistress now, from whom you see
There's no disjunction to be made, but by
Shakspeare's Winter's Tale.
There is a great analogy between the body
natural and politic, in which the ecclesiastical or
spiritual part justly supplies the part of the soul;
and the violent separation of this from the other,
does as certainly infer death and dissolution, as
the disjunction of the body and the soul in the
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Your ruin.

natural.

DISJUNCTIVE. adj. [disjunctivus, Lat.] 1. Incapable of union.

Such principles, whose atoms are of that dis junctive nature, as not to be united in a sufficient number to make a visible mass. Grew.

2. That marks separation or opposition: as. I love him, or fear bien.

There are such words as disjunctive conjunc

tions.

3. In logick.

as, It

Watts.

A disjunctive proposition is when the parts are opposed to one another by disjunctive particles: either day or night; The weather is either shiny or rainy; Quantity is either length, breadth, or depth. The truth of disjunctives depends on the necessary and immediate opposition of the parts, therefore only the last of these examples is true: but the two first are not strictly true; because twilight is a medium between day and night; and dry cloudy weather is a medium be tween shining and raining.

A disjunctive syllogism is when the major pro position is disjunctive: as, the earth moves in a circle, or an ellipsis but it does not move in a circle, therefore it moves in an ellipsis. Watts.

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DISJUNCTIVELY. adv. [from disjunc-
tive.] Distinctly; separately.
What he observes of the numbers disjunctively

and apart, reason suggests to be applicable to the
whole body united.
Decay of Piety.

DISK. n. s. [discus, Latin.]

1. The face of the sun, or any planet, as to the eye.

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appears

The disk of Phoebus, when he climbs on high, Appears at first but as a bloodshot eye. Dryden. It is to be considered, that the rays, which are equally refrangible, do fall upon a circle answering to the sun's disk. Newton.

Mercury's disk.

Can scarce be caught by philosophic eye,
Lost in the near effulgence.

Thomson.

1. A broad piece of iron thrown in the ancient

sports; a quoit.

The crystal of the eye, which in a fish is a
ball, in any land animal is a disk or bowl; being
hereby fitted for the clearer sight of the object.
Grew.

In areas varied with mosaic art,
Some whirl the disk, and some the jav'lin dart.

Pope.

DISKINDNESS. n. s. [dis and kindness.Ĵ

1. Want of kindness; want of affection; want of benevolence.

2. Ill turn; injury; act of malignity; detriment.

This discourse is so far from doing any diskindme to the cause, that it does it a real service. Woodward.

DISLIKE. . s. [from the verb.]
1. Disinclination; absence of affection;
the contrary to fondness.

He then them took, and tempering goodly

well

Their contrary dislikes with loved means,

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Did place them all in order, and compel
To keep themselves within their sundry reigns,
Together link'd with adamantine chains. Spenser.
Your dislikes, to whom I would be pleasing,
Do cloud my joys with danger and with sorrow.
God's grace, that principle of his new birth,
Shakspeare.
gives him continual dislike to sin.
Our likings or dislikes are founded rather upon
Hammond.
humour and fancy, than upon reason.
Sorrow would have been as silent as thought,
L'Estr.
as severe as philosophy. It would have rested in
inward senses,
tacit dislikes.
The jealous man is not angry if you dislike
South.
another; but if you find those faults which are
in his own character, you discover not only your
dilike of another, but of himself.
2. Discord; dissension; disagreement.
Addison.

This sense is not now in use.
This said Aletes, and a murmur rose
That shew'd dislike among the christian peers.
Fairfax.

To DISLIKE. v. a.

disapprove; to
[dis and like.] To
tion; to regard with ill-will or disgust.
regard without affec-
What most he should dislike seems pleasant to

him;

There is a point, which whoever can touch, will never fail of pleasing a majority, so great that the dislikers will be forced to fall in with the herd.

To DISLIMB. v. a. [dis and limb.] Swift. To dilaniate; to tear limb from limb. Dict. To DISLIMN. v. a. [dis and limn.] To unpaint; to strike out of a picture.

What like, offensive. Shakspeare's King Lear. The players, and disgrace the poet too. Denham. Ye dislike, and so undo Whosoever dislikes the digressions, or grows weary of them, may throw them away. Temple. DISLIKEFUL. adj. [dislike and full. [Disaffected; malign. Not in use.

I think it best, by an union of manners, and conformity of minds, to bring them to be one

That which is now a horse, even with a thought
The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct
As water is in water.
Shaksp
To DISLOCATE. v. a. [dis and lotus,
Latin.]

1. To put out of the proper place.

After some time the strata on all sides of the globe were dislocated, and their situation varied, being clevated in some places, and depressed in others. Woodward

2. To put out of joint; to disjoint.
Were 't my fitness

To let these hands obey my boiling blood,
They 're apt enough to dislocate and tear
DISLOCATION. n. s. [from dislocate.}
Thy flesh and bones. Shakspeare's King Lear.
1. The act of shifting the places of things.
2. The state of being displaced.

The posture of rocks, often leaning or prostrate, shews that they had some dislocation from their natural site. 3. A luxation; a violent pressure of a Burnet. bone out of the socket, or correspondent part; a joint put out.

It might go awry either within or without the upper, as often as it is forcibly pulled to it, and so cause a dislocation, or a strain. Grew. 1. To remove from a place. To DISLO ́DGE. v. a. [dis and lodge.]

The shell-fish which are resident in the depths live and die there, and are never dislodged or removed by storms, nor cast upon the shores; which the littorales usually are. Woodward.

2. To remove from a habitation.

These senses lost, behold a new defeat,
The soul dislodging from another seat. Dryden.
3. To drive an enemy from a station.

My sword can perfect what it has begun,
And from your walls dislodge that haughty son.
Dryden.
quarters.

4. To remove an army to other
The ladies have prevail'd,

The Volscians are dislodg'd, and Marcus gone.
Shakspeare.

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Disloyal town!

Speak, didst not thou Forsake thy faith, and break thy nuptial yow? Dryden. 4. False in love; not constant. The last three senses are now obsolete. DISLOYALLY.

adv. [from disloyal.] Not faithfully; treacherously; disobediently. DISLOYALTY. n. s. [from disloyal.] 1. Want of fidelity to the sovereign.

Let the truth of that religion I profess be represented to judgment, not in the disguises of levity, schism, heresy, novelty, and disloyalty. King Charles.

2. Want of fidelity in love. Obsolete. There shall appear such seeming truths of Hero's disloyalty, that jealousy shall be called Shakspeare.

assurance.

DI'SMAL. adj. [dies malus, Latin, an evil day.] Sorrowful; dire; horrid; melancholy; uncomfortable; unhappy;

dark.

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This is most strange!!

That she, who ev'n but now was your best object,

Dearest and best, should in this trice of time Commit a thing so monstrous, to dismantle So many folds of favour. Shakspeare. 3. To strip a town of its outworks. It is not sufficient to possess our own fort, without the dismantling and demolishing of our enemies. Hakerill.

4. To break down any thing external. His eyeballs, rooted out, are thrown toground; His nose dismantled in his mouth is found; His jaws, cheeks, front, one undistinguish'd Dryden. To DISMA ́SK. v. a. [dis and mask.] To divest of a mask; to uncover from concealment.

wound.

Fair ladies mask'd are roses in the bud, Or angels veil'd in clouds; are roses blown, Dismask'd, their damask sweet commixture shewn. Shakspeare. The marquis thought best todismask his beard; and told him that he was going covertly.

Wotton.

To DISMA'Y. v. a. [desmayar, Spanish.] To terrify; to discourage; to affright; to depress; to deject.

Their mighty strokes their haberjeons dismay'd Spenser. Enemies would not be so troublesome to the western coasts, nor that country itself would be so often dismayed with alarms as they have of late years been. Raleigh's Essays. He will not fail thee; fear not, neither be dismayed. Deut. Nothing can make him remiss in the practice of his duty; no prospect of interest can allure him, no fear of danger dismay him. Atterbury. DISMAY. n. s. [desmayo, Spanish.] Fall of courage; terrour felt; desertion of mind; fear impressed.

All sate mute,

Pondering the danger with deep thoughts; and

each

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The pope began to exercise his new rapínes by a compliance with king Edward, in granting him two years disme from the clergy. Ayliffe.

To DISMEMBER. v. a. [dis and member.] To divide member from member; to dilacerate; to cut in pieces.

Shak.

I am with both, each army hath a hand; And in their rage, I having hold of both, They whirl asunder, and dismember me. O, that we then could come by Cæsar's spirit, And not dismember Cæsar! but, alas! Cæsar must bleed for it.

Shakspeare A state can never arrive to its period in a more deplorable crisis, than when some prince

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