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DISACQUAINTANCE. . . [dis and acquaintance.] Disuse of familiarity.

Conscience, by a long neglect of, and disacquaintance with itself, contracts an inveterate rust or soil. South. DISADVANTAGE. n..s. [dis and advantage.]

. Loss; injury to interest: as, he sold to disadvantage.

2. Diminution of any thing desirable, as credit, fame, honour.

Chaucer in many things resembled Ovid, and that with no disadvantage on the side of the modern author. Dryden.

The most shining merit goes down to posterity with disadvantage, when it is not placed by writers in its proper light. Addison.

Those parts already published give reason to think, that the Iliad will appear with no disadwantage to that immortal poem. Addison.

Their testimony will not be of much weight to its disadvantage, since they are liable to the common objection of condemning what they did not understand. 3. A state not prepared for defence. No fort can be so strong,

Swift.

Ne fleshly breast can armed be so sound, But will at last be won with batt'ry long, Or unawares at disadvantage found. Fairy Queen. To DISADVANTAGE. v. a. [from the noun. To injure in interest of any kind. All other violences are so far from advancing christianity, that they extremely weaken and disadvantage it. Decay of Picty. DISADVANTAGEABLE. adj. [from disadvantage.] Contrary to profit; producing loss. Not used.

In clearing of a man's estate, he may as well hurt himself in being too sudden, as in letting it run on too long; for hasty selling is commonly as disadvantageable as interest. Bacon. DISADVANTAGEOUS. adj. [from disadvantage] Contrary to interest; contrary to convenience; unfavourable.

A multitude of eyes will narrowly inspect every part of an eminent man, consider him nicely in all views, and not be a little pleased when they have taken him in the worst and most disadvantageous lights. Addison.

DISADVANTAGEOUSLY.adv. [from disadvantageous.] In a manner contrary to interest or profit; in a manner not favourable.

An approving nod or smile serves to drive you on, and make you display yourselves more disadvantageously. Gov. of the Tongue. DISADVANTAGEOUSNESS. n. s. [from disadvantageous.] Contrariety to profit ; inconvenience; mischief; loss. DISADVENTUROUS. adj. [dis and adventurous.] Unhappy; unprosperous. Now he hath left you here, To be the record of his rueful loss, And of my doleful disadventurous death. F. Qu. To DISAFFECT. v. a. [dis and affect.] To fill with discontent; to discontent; to make less faithful or zealous.

They had attempted to disaffect and discontent his majesty's late army. Clarendon. DISAFFECTED. part. adj. [from disaffect.] Not disposed to zeal or affection. Usually applied to those who are enemies to the government.

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By denying civil worship to the emperor's statues, which the custom then was to give, they were proceeded against as disaffected to the emStilling fleet. DISAFFECTEDLY, adv. [from disaffected.] After a disaffected manner. DISAFFECTEDNESS. n. s. [from disaffected.] The quality of being disaffected.

DISAFFECTION. n. s. [from disaffect.] 1. Dislike; ill-will.

In making laws, princes must have regard to the public dispositions, to the affections and disaffections of the people; and must not introduce a law with public scandal and displeasure.

Taylor's Rule of Holy Living. 2. Want of zeal for the government; want of ardour for the reigning prince. In this age every thing disliked by those who think with the majority, is called disaffection. Swift. Disorder; bad constitution: in a physical sense.

3.

The disease took its original merely from the disaffection of the part, and not from the peccancy of the humours. Wiseman.

DISAFFIRMANCE. n. s. [dis and affirm.] Confutation; negation.

That kind of reasoning which reduceth the opposite conclusion to something that is apparently absurd, is a demonstration in disaffirmance of any thing that is affirmed.

Hale,

To DISAFFO REST. v. a. [dis and forest.]

To throw open to common purposes; to reduce from the privileges of a forest to the state of common ground.

The commissioners of the treasury moved the king to disafforest some forests of his, explaining themselves of such forests as lay out of the way, not near any of the king's houses. Bacon. How happy's he, which hath due place assign'd To his beasts; and disafforested his mind!

Donne.

1. To differ; not to be the same.
To DISAGREE. V. n. [dis and agree.]

The mind clearly and infallibly perceives all distinct ideas to disagree; that is, the one not to Locke.

be the other.

2. To differ; not to be of the same opinion.

Why both the bands in worship disagree, And some adore the flow'r, and some the tree. 3. To be in a state of opposition: folDryden. lowed by from or with, before the opposite.

It containeth many improprieties, disagreeing almost in all things from the true and proper description,

Brown.

Strange it is, that they reject the plainest sense of scripture, because it seems to disagree with what they call reason. DISAGREEABLE. adj. [from disagree.] Atterbury. 1. Contrary; unsuitable

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Some demon, an enemy to the Greeks, had forced her to a conduct disagreeable to her sin cerity. Unpleasing; offensive.

Broome.

To make the sense of esteem or disgrace sipk the deeper, and be of the more weight, either agreeable or disagreeable things should constantly accompany these different states. Locke.

DISAGREEABLENESS. n. s. [from dis- To DISANNU ́L. v. a. [dis and annul.

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agreeable.]

1. Uusuitableness; contrariety.
2. Unpleasantness; offenfiveness.

A father will hug and embrace his beloved

son, for all the dirt and foulness of his cloaths; the dearness of the person easily apologizing for the disagreeableness of the habit. South. DISAGREEMENT. n. s. [from disagree.] 1. Difference; dissimilitude; diversity; not identity; not likeness.

These carry such plain and evident notes and characters, either of disagreement or affinity with one another, that the several kinds of them are easily distinguished. Woodward.

2. Difference of opinion; contrariety of sentiments.

They seemed one to cross another, as touching their several opinions about the necessity of sacraments, whereas in truth their disagreement is Hooker.

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To DISALLOW. v. a. [dis and allow.]
1. To deny authority to any.
When, said she,

Were those first councils disallory'd by me?
Or where did I at sure tradition strike,
Provided still it were apostolic?

2. To confider as unlawful; not to per-
Dryden.
mit.

Their usual kind of disputing sheweth, that they do not disallow only these Romish ceremonies which are unprofitable, but count all unprofitable which are Romish.

Hooker.

3. To censure by some posterior act.

It was known that the most eminent of those who professed his own principles, publickly disallowed his proceedings. Swift.

4. To censure; not to justify.

There is a secret, inward foreboding fear, that some evil or other will follow the doing of that which a man's own conscience disallows him in.

To DISALLOW... n. To refuse perSouth. mission; not to grant; not to make or suppose lawful.

God doth in converts, being married, allow continuance with infidels, aud yet disallow that the faithful, when they are free, should enter into bonds of wedlock with such. DISALLOWABLE. adj. [from disallow.] Hooker, Not allowable; not to be suffered. DISALLOWANCE. n. s. [from disallow.]

Prohibition.

God accepts of a thing suitable for him to receive, and for us to give, where he does not declare his refusal and disallowance of it. To DISANCHOR. v. a. [from dis and anSouth. chor. To drive a ship from its anchor. TO DISA NIMATE. v. a. [dis and animate.]

This word is formed, contrarily to analogy, by those who, not knowing the meaning of the word annul, iutended to form a negative sense by the needless use of the negative particle. It ought therefore to be rejected, as ungrammatical and barbarous.] To annul; to deprive of authority; to vacate; to make null; to make void; to nnllify.

The Jews ordinances for us to resume, were to check our Lord himself, which hath disannulled them. Hooker.

That gave him power of disannulling of laws, and disposing of men's fortunes and estates, and the like points of absolute power, being in them selves harsh and odious.

To be in both worlds full,

Bacon.

Is more than God was, who was hungry here:
Wouldst thou his laws of fasting disannul?
Herbert.

Wilt thou my judgments disannul? Defame
My equal rule, to clear thyself of blame? Sandys.
DISANNULMENT. n. s. [from disannul.]
The act of making void.

To DISAPPEAR. v. n. [disparoitre, Fr.] To be lost to view; to vanish out of fight; to fly; to go away.

1. To deprive of life. 2. To discourage; to deject; to depress. The presence of a king engenders love amongst his subjects and his loyal friends, as it disanimates Shakspeare.

his enemies.

He was confounded and disanimated at his pre-. sence, and added, How can the servant of my lord talk with my lord? DISANIMATION. 2, S. [from disanimate.] Boyle,

Privation of life.

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Milton.

She disappear'd, and left me dark! I wak'd
To find her, or for ever to deplore.
When the night and winter disappear,
The purple morning, rising with the year,
Salutes the spring.

Dryden.

The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours, and, if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear.

Locke.

Criticks I saw that others names deface, And fix their own with labour in their place; Their own, like others, soon their place resign'd, To DISAPPOINT. v. a. [dis and appoint.] Or disappear'd, and left the first behind. Pope. 1. To defeat of expectation; to balk; to hinder from something expected.

They cannot in reason retain that apprehension · after death, as being affections which depend on life, and depart upon disanimation.

Brown,

blow.

The superior Being can defeat all his designs, and disappoint all his hopes. Tillotson. Whilst the champion, with redoubled might, Strikes home the jav'lin, his retiring foe Shrinks from the wound, and disappoints the Addison. There's nothing like surprising the rogues: how will they be disappointed, when they hear that thou hast prevented their revenge! Arbuth. We are not only tortured by the reproaches which are offered us, but are disappointed by the silence of men when it is unexpected, and humbled even by their praises. Addison.

2. It has of before the thing lost by disappointment.

The Janizaries, disappointed by the bassas of the spoil, received of the bounty of Solyman a great largess. Knuites. DISAPPOINTMENT. 1. s. [from disappoint.] Defeat of hopes; miscarriage of expectations.

It is impossible for us to know what are calamities, and what are blessings. How many accidents have passed for misfortunes, which have turned to the welfare and prosperity of the persons in whose lot they have fallen! How many disappointments have, in their consequences, saved a man from ruin! Spectator.

If we hope for things, of which we have not thoroughly considered the value, our disappoint ment will be greater than our pleasure in the fruition of them.

Addison.

DISAPPROBATION. n. s. [dis and ap. probation.] Censure; condemnation; expression of dislike.

He was obliged to publish his letters, to shew his disapprobation of the publishing of others. Pope. To DISAPPROVE. v. a. [desapprouver, French.]

1. To dislike; to censure.

I reason'd much, alas! but more I lov'd;
Sent and recall'd, ordain'd and disapprov'd.

Prior. Without good breeding truth is disapprov'd; That only makes superior sense belov'd. Pope. 2. To reject as disliked; not to confirm by concurrence.

A project for a treaty of barrier with the States was transmitted hither from Holland, and was disapproved of by our courts. Swift. DI'SARD. n. s. [disi, difg, Saxon, a fool, Skinner; diseur, French, Junius.] A prattler; a boasting talker. This word is inserted both by Skinner and Junius ;

but I do not remember it.

To DISARM. v. a. [desarmer, French.] 1. To spoil or divest of arms; to deprive

of arms.

An order was made by both houses, for disarming all the papists in England. Clarendon.

I am still the same,

By different ways still moving to one fame;
And by disarming you I now do more
To save the town, than arming you before.

2. It has of before the arms taken away. Dryden. They would be immediately disarmed of their great magazine of artillery. Locke. To DISARRAY. v. a. [dis and array.] To undress any one; to divest of clothes.

So, as she bad, the witch they disarray'd. Fairy Queen. Now night is come, now soon her disarray, And in her bed her lay. Spenser. DISARRAY. n. s. [from the verb.] 1. Disorder; confufion; loss of the regular order of battle.

He returned towards the river, to prevent such danger as the disarray, occasioned by the narrowness of the bridge, might cast upon them. Hayward.

Disarray and shameful rout ensue, And force is added to the fainting crew. Dryden. 2. Undress.

DISASSIDUITY. n. s. Absence of care or attention.

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The Cecilians kept him back; as very knowing that, upon every little absence or disassiduity, he should be subject to take cold at his back. Wotton.

DISA'STER. n. s. [desastre, Fr.] I. The blast or stroke of an unfavourable planet.

Stars shone with trains of fire, dews of blood

fall; Disasters veil'd the sun; and the moist star, Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands, Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse. Shakspeare.

2. Misfortune; grief; mishap; misery; calamity.,

Some dire disaster, or by force or slighty
But what, or where, the fates have wrapt in night.
Pepe.

To DISASTER. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To blast by the stroke of an unfavourable star.

Ah, chaste bed of mine, said she, which never heretofore couldst accuse me of one defiled thought, how canst thou now receive that disastered changeling. Sidney.

2. To afflict; to mischief.

These are the holes where eyes should be, which pitifully disaster the cheeks. Shakspeare. In his own fields, the swain Thomson.

Disaster'd stands.

DISASTROUS. adj. [from disaster.] 1. Unlucky; not fortunate.

That seemeth a most disastrous day to the Scots, not only in regard of this overthrow, but for that upon the same day they were defeated by the English at Floodenfield. Hayward. 2. Gloomy; threatening misfortune.

3.

The moon,

In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations.

Milton.

Unhappy; calamitous ; miserable struck with affliction.

Then Juno, pitying her disastrous fate, Sends Iris down, her pangs to mitigate.

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Denbam.

Immediately after his return from this very expedition, such disastrous calamities befel his family, that he burnt two of his children himself. South.

Fly the pursuit of my disastrous love; From my unhappy neighbourhood remove. DISASTROUSLY. adv, [from disastrous.] Dryden. In a dismal manner.

Dict.

DISASTROUSNESS. n. s. [from disas
trous.] Unluckiness; unfortunateness.
To DISAVOU CH. v. a. [dis and avouch.]
To retract profession; to disown.
Thereupon they flatly disavouch
To yield him more obedience or support.
Daniel.

To DISAVOW. v. a. [dis and avow.]
To disown, to deny knowledge of; to
deny concurrence in any thing, or with

any person.

The heirs and posterity of them which yielded the same, are either ignorant thereof, or do wilfully deny, or stedfastly disavow it. Spenser.

The English did believe his name was therein abused; which he manifested to be true, by dis avowing it openly afterwards. Hayward. To deal in person is good, when a man's face breedeth regard, and generally when a man will reserve to himself liberty either to disavow or to expound. Bacon.

A man that acts below his rank, doth but disavow fortune, and seemeth to be conscious of his own want in worth, and doth but teach others to envy him. Bacon.

He only does his conquest disavow, And thinks too little what they found too much. Dryden.

We are reminded by the ceremony of taking an oath, that it is a part of that obedience which we learn from the gospel, expressly to disavow all evasions and mental reservations whatsoever. Addison's Freeholder.

This day black omens threat the brightest fair DISAVOWAL. n. s. [from disavow.] 'That e'er deserv'd a watchful spirit's care;

Denial.

An earnest disavowal of fear often proceeds from fear.

Clarissa. DISAVOWMENT. n. s. [from disavow.] Denial.

As touching the Tridentine history, his holiness will not press you to any disavorement thereof. Wotton.

TO DISAUTHORIZE. V. a. [dis and authorize.] To deprive of credit or authority.

The obtrusion of such particular instances as these, are insufficient to disauthorise a note grounded upon the final intention of nature. Wotton.

To DISBAND. v. a. [dis and band.]
1. To dismiss from military service; to
break up an army; to dismiss soldiers
from their colours.

They disbanded themselves, and returned every
man to his own dwelling. Knolles' History
Pythagoras bids us in our station stand,
Till God, our general, shall us disband.

Denham,

I am content to lead a private life;
Disband my army to secure the state. Dryden.
Bid him disband his legions.
2. To spread abroad; to scatter.
Addison's Cato.

Some imagine that a quantity of water, sufficient to make such a deluge, was created upon that occasion; and, when the business was done, all disbanded again, and annihilated. Woodward. To DISBAND. V. n.

1. To retire from military service; to separate; to break up.

Our

navy was upon the point of disbanding, and many of our men come ashore.

Such who profess to disbelieve a future state, are not always equally satisfied with their own reasonings. Atterbury.

From a fondness to some vices, which the doctrine of futurity rendered uneasy, they brought themselves to doubt of religion; or, out of a vain affectation of seeing farther than other men, DISBELIEVER. n. 5. [from disbelieve.] pretended to disbelieve it. Rogers. One who refuses belief; one who denies any position to be true.

Disband, and wand'ring, each his several way
The rang'd pow'rs
Bacon.
Pursues.
The common soldiers, and inferior officers,
Milton.
should be fully paid upon their disbanding.
Were it not for some small remainders of piety
Clarendon,
and virtue, which are yet left scattered among
mankind, human society would in a short space
disband and run into confusion, and the earth
would grow wild and become a forest. Tillotson.
2. To be dissolved.

While rocks stand,
And rivers stir, thou canst not shrink or quail;
Yea, when both rocks and all things shall dis-
band,

Then shalt thou be my rock and tower.

An humble soul is frighted into sentiments, because a man of great name pronounces heresy upon the contrary sentiments, and casts the dis believer out of the church. To DISBENCH. v. a. [dis and bench. Watts To drive from a seat. Sir, I hope My words disbench'd you not? -No, sir; yet oft,

Herbert.

words.

When blows have made me stay, I fied from To DISBRANCH. v. a. [dis and branch.] Shakspeare. To separate, or break off, as a branch from a tree.

To DISBA'RR. v. a. [debarquer, French.]
To land from a ship; to put on shore.
Together sail'd they, fraught with all the
things

She that herself will sliver and disbranch From her maternal sap, perforce must wither, And come to deadly use. Shaksp. King Lear.

Dict.

Such as are newly planted need not be disbranched till the sap begins to stir, that so the wound may be healed without the scar. To DISBUD. V. a. [With gardeners.] To Evelyn's Kalendar. take away the branches or sprigs newly To DISBURDEN. v. a. [dis and burden.] ~ put forth, that are ill placed. 1. To ease of a burden; to unload. The river, with ten branches or streams, disburdens himself within the Persian sea. Peacham on Drawing Milton

To service done by land that might belong,
And, when occasion serv'd, disbarked them.
The ship we moor on these obscure abodes;
Disbark the sheep, an offering to the gods.
Fairfax.
Pope's Odyssey.

DISBELIEF.
3. n. s. [from disbelieve.] Re-
fusal of credit; denial of belief.
Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter
the nature of the thing.

Tillotson.

TO DISBELIEVE. V. a. [dis and believe.]
Not to credit; not to hold true.

Disburden'd heav'n rejoic'd. 2. To disencumber, discharge, or clear.

They removed either by casualty and tempest, or by intention and design; either out of lucre of goid, or for the disburdening of the countries surcharged with multitudes of inhabitants.

We shall disburden the piece of those hard Hale's Origin of Mankind. shadowings, which are always ungraceful. Dryden's Dufresnoy.

3. To throw off a burden.

Better yet do I live, that though by my thoughts
I be plunged

Into my life's bondage, I yet may disburden a
passion.

Sidney.

Lucia, disburden all thy cares on me,
And let me share thy most retir'd distress.

To DISBURDEN. V.n.
Addison's Cate.
To
To DISBU ́RSE. v. a. [debourser, Fr.]
ease the mind.
To spend or lay out money.

Money is not disbursed at once, but drawn into a long length, by sending over now twenty thou sand, and next half year ten thousand pounds.

Spenser.

Nor would we deign him burial for his men, Till he disburs'd ten thousand dollars.

Shaksp.

As Alexander received great sums, he was no less generous and liberal in disbursing of them. Arbuthnot on Coins. [deboursement,

The thinking it impossible his sins should be DISBURSEMENT. n. s.

forgiven, though he should be truly penitent, is sin, but rather of infidelity than despair; it being the disbelieving of an eternal truth of Hammond's Practical Catechism.

God's

French.]

1. Act of disbursing or laying out.

The queen's treasure, in so great occasions of disbursements, is not always so ready, nor so

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ther.

2. Sum spent.
DISBURSER. n. s. [from disburse.] One
that disburses.

DISCA'LCEATED. adj. [discalceatus,
Latin.] Stripped of shoes.
DISCALCEATION. n. s. [from discalce-
ated.] The act of pulling off the shoes.
The custom of discalceation, or putting off
their shoes, at meals, is conceived to have been
done, as by that means keeping their beds clean.
Brown's Vulgar Errours.

T. DISCANDY. v. n. [dis and candy.]
To dissolve; to melt.
Hanmer.

The hearts

That spaniel'd me at heels, to whom I gave Their wishes, do discandy, melt their sweets On blossoming Cæsar. Shakspeare. To DISCARD. v. a. [dis and card.] 1. To throw out of the hand such cards as are useless.

2. To dismiss or eject from service or employment.

These men being certainly jewels to a wise man, considering what wonders they were able to perform, yet were discarded by that unworthy prince, as not worthy the holding. Sidacy.

Their captains, if they list, discard whom they please, and send away such as will perhaps will ingly be rid of that dangerous and hard service. Spenser's State of Ireland.

Should we own that we have a very imperfect idea of substance, would it not be hard to charge us with discarding substance out of the world? Locke.

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always therefore represented as blind.

Addison's Guardian.

They blame the favourites, and think it nothing extraordinary that the queen should be at an end of her patience, and resolve to discard Swift.

them.'

I do not conceive why a sunk discarded party, who neither expect nor desire more than a quiet life, should be charged with endeavouring to introduce popery. Swift. DISCARNATE. adj. [dis and caro, flesh; scarnato, Ital.] Stripped of flesh.

'Tis better to own a judgment, though but with a curta suppellex of coherent notions; than a memory like a sepulchre, furnished with a load of broken and discarnate bones. Glanville. To DISCA'SE. v. a. [dis and case.] To strip; to undress.

Fetch me the hat and rapier in my cell:
I will discase me, and myself present. Shaksp.
To DISCERN. v. a. [discerno, Latin.]
1. To descry; to see; to discover.

And behold among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding.

Proverbs.

2. To judge; to have knowledge of by comparison.

What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the loving.

Sidney.

Does any here know me? This is not Lear: Does Lear walk thus, speak thus? Where are his eyes?

Either his motion weakens, or his discernings
Are. lethargied.
Shakspeare,

You should be sul'd and led
By some discretion, that discerns your state
Better than you yourself, Shaksp. King Lear,

3. To distinguish.

To discern such buds as are fit to produce blossoms, from such as will display themselves but in leaves, is no difficult matter. Boyle. 4. To make the difference between. They follow virtue for reward to-day; To-morrow vice, if she give better pay; We are so good, or bad, just at a price; For nothing else discerns the virtue or vice. To DISCERN. v. n. Ben Jonson.

1. To make distinction.

Great part of the country was abandoned to the spoils of the soldiers, who not troubling themselves to discern between a subject and a rebel, whilst their liberty lasted, made indiffe rently profit of both. Hayward.

The custom of arguing on any side, even against our persuasions, dims the understanding, and makes it by degrees lose the faculty of dis-cerning between truth and falsehood. Locke. 2. To have judicial cognizance. Not in

use.

It discerneth of forces, frauds, crimes various of stellionate, and the incohations towards crimes capital, not actually perpetrated. Bacon. DISCERNER. n. s. [from discern.] 1. Discoverer; he that descries.

"Twas said they saw but one; and no dis

cerner

Durst wag his tongue in censure. Shakspeare. 2. Judge; one that has the power of distinguishing.

He was a great observer and discerner of men's natures and humours, and was very dexterous in compliance, where he found it useful. Clarendon,

How unequal discerners of truth they are, and easily exposed unto errour, will appear by their unqualified intellectuals. Brown's Vul. Err. DISCERNIBLE. adj. [from discern.] Discoverable; perceptible; distinguishable; apparent.

It is indeed a sin of so gross, so formidable a bulk, that there needs no help of opticks to render it discernible, and therefore I need not farther expatiate on it. Government of the Tongue. All this is easily discernible by the ordinary discourses of the understanding. South, DISCE RNIBLENESS. n. s. [from discernible.] Visibleness.

DISCERNIBLY, adv. [from discernible.]
Perceptibly; apparently.

Consider what doctrines are infused discernibly among christians, most apt to obstruct or interrupt the christian life. Hammond,

DISCERNING. part. adj. [from discern.]
Judicious; knowing.

This hath been maintained not only by warm
enthusiasts, but by cooler and more discerning
heads.
DISCERNINGLY, adv. [from discerning.]
Atterbury
Judiciously; rationally; acutely.

These two errours Ovid has most discerningly
avoided.
Garth
DISCERNMENT. n. s. [from discern.]
Judgment; power of distinguishing.
A reader that wants discernment, loves and
admires the characters and actions of men in a
wrong place.
Freeholder.

To DISCE RP, v. a. [discerpo, Lat.] To
tear in pieces; to break; to destroy by
separation of its parts.
DISCERPTIBLE, ́adj, [from discerp.]
Dict.

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