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Dismiss our navy from your friendly shore.

Acts.

Dryden. 3. To discard; to divest of an office. DISMISSION. n. s. [from dimissio, Lat.] 1. Dispatch; act of sending away.

So pois'd, so gently she descends from high, It seems a soft dismission from the sky. Dryden. 2. An honourable discharge from any office or place.

Not only thou degrad'st them, or remit'st To life obscure, which were a fair dismission; But throw'st them lower than thou didst exalt them high. 3. Deprivation; obligation to leave any Milton's Agonistes. post or place.

You must not stay here longer; your dismission Is come from Cæsar. To DISMORTGAGE. v. a. [dis and mortShakspeare. gage.] To redeem from mortgage. He dismortgaged the crown demesnes, and left behind a mass of gold.

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DISMOUNT. v. a. [demonter, French.]

Howel's Vocal Forest.

1. To throw off a horse.

From this flying steed unrein'd, as once Bellerophon, though from a lower clime, Dismounted on thAleian field I fall.

2. To throw from any elevation or place Milton.

of honour.

3. To throw a cannon from its carriage. The Turks artillery, planted against that tower, was by the christian cannoneers dismounted with shot from the tower, and many of the gunners Knolles.

slain.

To DISMOUNT. v.n.

1. To alight from a horse.

When he came within sight of that prodigious army at Agincourt, he ordered all his cavalry to dismount, and implore upon their knees a blessing.

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2. Incompliance.

If planetary orbs the sun obey,
Why should the moon disown his sovereign

sway?

Why in a whirling eddy of her own
Around the globe terrestrial should she run;
This disobedience of the moon will prove
The sun's bright orb does not the planets move.
DISOBEDIENT. adj. [dis and obedient.]
Blackmore.
Not observant of lawful authority;
guilty of the breach of lawful com-
mands, or prohibition.

2. To descend from any elevation. TO DISNATURALIZE. v. a. [dis and naturalize.] To alienate; to make alien; to deprive of the privileges of birth. DISNATURED. adj. [dis and nature.] Unnatural; wanting natural tenderness; devoid of natural affection. Unusual.

If she must teem,

The man of God was disobedient unto the word of the Lord. 1 Kings. TO DISOBEY. v. a. [dis and obey.] To break commands, or transgress pro hibitions.

Create her child of spleen, that it may live, And be a thwart disnatur'd torment to her. DISOBEDIENCE. n. s. [dis and obedience.] Shakspeare's King Lear. 1. Violation of lawful command or prohibition; breach of duty due to superiours.

She absolutely bade him, and he durst not know how to disobey.

He's loth to disobey the god's command,
Nor willing to forsake this pleasant land.

Sidney.

Denham

DISOBLIGATION. n. s. [dis and obligation.] Offence; cause of disgust.

If he receded from what he had promised, it would be such a disobligation to the prince that he would never forget it. Clarendon.

L'Estrange.

There can be no malice, and consequently no crime or disobligation. To DISOBLIGE. v. a. [dis and oblige.] To offend; to disgust; to give offence to. A term by which offence is tenderly expressed.

Ashley had been removed from that charge, and was thereby so much disobliged, that he quitted the king's party. Clarendon.

Those, though in highest place, who slight and disoblige their friends, shall infallibly come to know the value of them, by having none when they shall most need them.

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If a woman suffers her lover to see she is loth to disoblige him, let her beware of an encroacher. Clarissa. DISOBLIGING. participial adj. [from disoblige.] Disgusting; unpleasing; offensive.

Peremptoriness can befit no form of understanding it renders wise men disobliging and troublesome, and fools ridiculous and contemptible. DISOBLIGINGLY. adv. [from disobligGovernment of the Tongue.

ing.] In a disgusting or offensive manner; without attention to please. DISOBLIGINGNESS. n. s. [from disoblig. ing.] Offensiveness; readiness to disgust.

Diso RBED. adj. [dis and orb.] Thrown
out of the proper orbit.

Fly like chidden Mercury from Jove,
Or like a star disorb'd.
Shaks.
DISORDER. n. s. [dis and order; desor-
dre, French.]

1. Want of regular disposition; irregula
rity; confusion; immethodical distri-
bution.

When I read an author of genius without method, I fancy myself in a wood that abounds with many noble objects, rising among one another in the greatest confusion and disorder.

2. Tumult; disturbance; bustle.

Spectator.

A greater favour this disorder brought
Unto her servants, than their awful thought
Durst entertain, when thus compell'd they

prest

The yielding marble of her snowy breast.

3. Neglect of rule, irregularity.

Waller.

From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art. Pope. 4. Breach of laws; violation of standing

institutions.

There reigned in all men blood, manslaughter, disquieting of good men, forgetfulness of good turns, and disorder in marriages. Wisdom.

5. Breach of that regularity in the animal economy which causes health; sickness; distemper. It is used commonly for a slight disease.

Pleasure and pain are only different constitu

tions of the mind, sometimes occasioned by disorder in the body, or sometimes by thoughts in the mind. Locke.

6. Discomposure of mind; turbulence of passions.

To DISORDER. v. a. [dis and order.] · 1. To throw into confusion; to confound; to put out of method; to disturb; to ruffle; to confuse.

Eve,

Not so repuls'd, with tears that ceas'd not flowing,
And tresses all disorder'd, at his feet
Fell humble.

Milton.

Yon disorder'd heap of ruin lies, Stones rent from stones, where clouds of dust arise.

Dryden.

The incursions of the Goths, and other barbarous nations, disordered the affairs of the Roman empire. Arbuthnot. 2. To make sick; to disturb the body: as, my dinner disorders me. 3. To discompose; to disturb the mind. 4. To turn out of holy orders; to depose; to strip of ecclesiastical vestments.

Let him be stript, and disordered; I would fain see him walk in querpo, that the world may behold the inside of a friar. Dryden. DISORDERED, adj. [from disorder.] Ďisorderly; irregular; vitious; loose; unrestrained in behaviour; debauched. Here do you keep a hundred knights and squires, Men so disorder'd, so debatich'd and bold,

That this our court, infected with their manners, Shews like a riotous inn. Shakesp. King Lear. DISORDEREDNESS. .s. [from disordered.] Irregularity; want of order; confusion.

E that disorderedness of the soldiers, a great advantage was offered unto the enemy. KnollesDISORDERLY. adj. [from disorder.] 1. Confused; immethodical; without proper distribution.

Those obsolete laws of Henry 1. were but disorderly, confused, and general things; rather cases and shells of administration than institutions. Hale.

2. Irregular; tumultuous.

They thought it the extremest of evils to put themselves at the mercy of those hungry and disorderly people. Bacon.

His thoughts, which are the pictures and results of passions, are generally such as naturally arise from those disorderly motions of our spirits. Dryden.

A disorderly multitude contending with the body of the legislature, is like a man in a fit under the conduct of one in the fulness of his health and strength. Addison. 3. Lawless; contrary to law; inordinate; contrary to the rules of life; vitious.

He reproved them for their disorderly assemDISORDERLY. adv. [from disorder.] blies against the peaceable people of the realms. Hayward. 1. Without rule; without method; irregularly; confusedly.

Naked savages fighting disorderly with stones, by appointment of their commanders, may truly and absolutely be said to war. Raleigh.

2. Without law; inordinately.

We behaved not ourselves disorderly among DISORDINATE. adj. [dis and ordinate.] you. 2 Thessalonians. Not living by the rules of virtue; inordinate.

These not disordinate, yet causeless suffer The punishment of dissolute days. Milton. DISORDINATELY. adv. [from disordinate.] Inordinately; vitiously. DISORIENTATED. adj. [dis and orient.] Turned from the east; turned from the right direction; thrown out of the proper place. Harris. To Diso WN. v. a. [dis and own.] 1. To deny, not to allow.

Then they, who brother's better claim disown, Expel their parents, and usurp the throne. Dryden's Eneid.

2. To abnegate; to renounce.

When an author has publickly disowned a spurious piece, they have disputed his name with Swift.

him.

Dia.

To DISPA'ND. v. a. [dispando, Latin.]
DISPA'NSION. #. S. [from dispansus, Lat.]
To display; to spread abroad.
The act of displaying; the act of
To DISPARAGE.
spreading; diffusion; dilatation.
v.a. [from dispar,

Latin.]

1. To marry any one to another of inferiour condition.

2. To match unequally; to injure by union with something inferiour in excellence.

3. To injure by a comparison with sorne-
thing of less value.

4. To treat with contempt; to mock; to
flout; to reproach.

Ahaz, his sottish conqueror, he drew
God's altar to disparage and displace,

For one of Syrian mode. Milton's Paradise Lost.
Thou durst not thus disparage glorious arms,
Which greatest heroes have in battle worn,
Their ornament and safety. Milton's Agonistes.
They will defy

That which they love most tenderly;
Quarrel with minc'd pies, and disparage
Their best and dearest friend, plum-porridge.
Hudibras.

5. To bring reproach upon; to be the
cause of disgrace.

How shall frail pen, with fear disparaged,
Conceive such sovereign glory and great boun-
tihed?
Spenser.

His religion sat easily, naturally, and grace-
fully upon him, without any of those forbidding
appearances which sometimes disparage the
actions of men sincerely pious.
DISPARAGEMENT. n. s. [from dispa-
Atterbury.
Tage.]

1. Inequality; difference in degree either

1. Injurious union or comparison with something of inferiour excellence. They take it for a disparagement to sort themselves with any other than the enemies of the public peace. 2. [In law.] Matching an heir in marL'Estrange. riage under his or her degree, or against decency. You wrongfully do require Mopsa to so great Corell. a disparagement as to wed her father's servant. She was much affectionate to her own kindred, Sidney. which did stir great envy in the lords of the king's side, who counted her blood a disparagement to be mingled with the king's. 3. Reproach; disgrace; indignity. Bacon. Gentle knight,

That doth against the dead is hand uprear, His honour stains with rancour and despight, And great disparagement makes to his former might. In a commonwealth, much disparagement is Spenser. occasioned, when able spirits, attracted by a familiarity, are inflamed with faction.

Wotton.

of rank or excellence.

Between Elihu and the rest of Job's familiars, the greatest disparity was but it years. Hooker. Among unequals, what society

Can sort, what harmony or true delight!
Which must be mutual in proportion due
Giv'n and receiv'd, but in disparity,

The one intense, the other still remiss,
Cannot well suit with either, but soon prove
Tedious alike.
Milton's Paradise Lost.
There was as great a disparity between the
practical dictates of the understanding, then
and now, as there is between empire and advice,
counsel and command.

South.
Men ought not to associate and join themselves
together in the same office, under a disparity of
condition.
Some members must preside, and others obey;
Ayliffe's Parergon.
and a disparity in the outward condition is neces-
sary to keep several orders in mutual dependence
on each other.
Rogers

2. Dissimilitude; unlikeness.
To DISPARK. v. a. [dis and park.]
1. To throw open a park.

Tis no disparagement to philosophy, that it can not deify us. Reason is a weak, diminutive light compared Glanville. to revelation; but it ought to be no disparagement to a star that it is not a sun. South.

Rely upon your beauty: 'twere a disparagement of that to talk of conditions, when you are certain of making your own terms.

You have fed upon my seignories, Dispark'd my parks, and fell'd my forest woods. Shakspeare.

2. To set at large; to release from enclo

4. It has to before the person or thing Southern's Innocent Adultery. disparaged.

Then to our age, when not to pleasure bent, This seems an honour not disparagement.

Denham.

The play was never intended for the stage;

sure.

They were suppos'd

Waller.

By narrow wits to be inclos'd;
Till his free muse threw down the pale,
And did at once dispark them all.
To DISPART. v.a. [dis and part; depar-
tir, French; dispertior, Latin.] To di-
vide in two; to separate; to break; to
burst; to rive.

The gate nor wood, nor of enduring brass,
But of more worthy substance framed was;
Doubly disparted, it did lock and close,
That when it locked none might through it pass
Spenser.

On either side

Disparted chaos overbuilt exclaim'd

And with rebounding surge the bars assail'd,
That scorn'd his indignation.

Milton.

The rest to several places,

Disparted, and between spun out the air.

Milton.

sway,

Disparted Britain mourn'd their doubtful

And dreaded both, when neither would obey.

The pilgrim oft

Prior.

At dead of night, 'mid his orison, hears,
Aghast, the voice of time disparting tow'rs.

Dyer

DISPASSION. n. s. [dis and passion.] Freedom from mental perturbation; exemption from passion.

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What is called by the Stoicks apathy, or dispassion, is called by the Scepticks indisturbance, by the Molenists quietism, by common men peace of conscience.

Temple.

nor, without disparagement to the author, could DISPASSIONATE. adj. [from dis and pas

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Fairy Queen. To DISPEND. v.a. [dispendo, Latin.]. To spend; to consume; to expend.

Of their commodities they were now scarce able to dispend the third part. Spenser. DISPENSARY. n. s. [from dispense.] The place where medicines are dispensed. To thee the lov'd dispens'ry I resign. DISPENSATION. n. s. [from dispensatio, Latin.]

Garth.

1. Distribution; the act of dealing out any thing.

This perpetual circulation is constantly promoted by a dispensation of water promiscuously and indifferently to all parts of the earth.

Woodward's Natural History.

2. The dealing of God with his creatures; method of providence; distriEution of good and evil.

God delights in the ministries of his own choice, and the methods of grace, in the economy of heaven, and the dispensations of eternal happiness. Taylor's Worthy Communicant. Neither are God's methods or intentions different in his dispensations to each private man.

Rogers.

Do thou, my soul, the destin'd period wait, When God shall solve the dark decrees of fate; His now unequal dispensations clear, And make all wise and beautiful appear.

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Those to whom Christ has committed the dispensing of his gospel. Decay of Piety. At length the muses stand restor'd again, While you dispense the laws, and guide the state. Dryden. To them but earth-born life they did dispense; To us, for mutual aid, celestial sense. Tate. 2. To make up a medicine. 3. To DISPENSE with. To excuse ; to grant dispensation for; to allow : before things.

4.

To save a brother's life, Nature dispenses with the deed.

Shaksp

How few kingdoms are there, wherein, by dispensing with oaths, absolving subjects from allegiance, and cursing, or threatening to curse, as long as their curses were regarded, the popes have not wrought innumerable mischiefs.

Raleigh. Rules of words may be dipensed with. Watts. To DISPENSE with: before persons. To set free from an obligation. This construction seems ungrammatical.

I could not dispense with myself from making a voyage to Caprea. Addison on Italy. 5. To DISPENSE with. To obtain a dispensation from; to come to agreement with. This structure is irregular, unless it be here supposed to mean, as it may, to discount; to pay an equivalent.

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Hast thou not sworn allegiance unto me? Canst thou dispense with heav'n for such an oath? Shakspeare. DISPENSE. n. 5. [from the verb.] Dispensation; exemption. Not in use. Then reliques, beads,

Milton.

Indulgences, dispenses, pardons, bulls, The sport of winds. DISPENSER. n. s. [from dispense.] One

that dispenses; one that deals out any thing; a distributer.

The ministers of that household are the dis pensers of that faith.

Spratt. Those who stand before earthly princes, who are the dispensers of their favours, and conveyors of their will to others, challenge high honours. Atterbury. TO DISPE OPLE. v. a. [dis and people.] To depopulate; to empty of people.

The Irish, banished into the mountains, where they lived only upon white meats, seeing their lands so speopled and weakened, came down into the plains. Spenser. Conflagrations, and great droughts, do not merely dispeople, but destroy.

Bacon.

His heart exalts him in the harm Already done, to have dispeopled heav'n. Milton. Kings, furious and severe, Who claim'd the skies, dispeopled air and floods, The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods. Pope

DISPEOPLER. 2. s. [from dispeople.] A depopulator; a waster.

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Nor drain I ponds the golden carp to take; Nor trowle for pikes, dispeoplers of the lake. Gay

To DISPERGE. v. a. [dispergo, Latin.] To sprinkle; to scatter. To DISPERSE. v. a. [dispersus, Latin.] Shakspeare. 1. To scatter; to drive to different parts. And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries.

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3.

Soldiers, disperse yourselves.

Shakspeare.

Have gather'd aught of evil or conceal'd,
Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark.

To deal about; to distribute.

Milton.

Being a king that loved wealth, he could not
endure to have trade sick, nor any obstruction
to continue in the gate vein which disperseth that
blood.
Bacon.

DISPERSEDLY. adv. [from dispersed.]
In a dispersed manner; separately.

The exquisite wits of some few, peradventure, are able, dispersedly here and there, to find now a word, and then a sentence, which may be more probably suspected, than easily cleared, of

errour.

Hooker.

Those minerals are either found in grains, dispersedly intermixed with the corpuscles of earth or sand, or else amassed into balls or nodules. Woodward.

DISPERSEDNESS. 2. s. [from dispersed.]
The state of being dispersed, disper-

sion.

DISPERSENESS. n. s. [from disperse.]

Thinness; scatteredness.

The torrid parts of Africk are by Piso resembled to a libbard's skin, the distance of whose spots represent the disperseness of habitations or towns in Africk. Brerewood.

DISPERSER, 2. s. [from disperse.] A scatterer; a spreader.

them.

Those who are pleased with defamatory libels, so far as to approve the authors and dispersers of them, are as guilty as if they had composed DISPERSION. n. s. [from dispersio, Lat.] Spectator. 1. The act of scattering or spreading. 1. The state of being scattered. Noah began from thence his dispersion.

Raleigh.

After so many dispersions, and so many divisions, two or three of us may yet be gathered together. Pope.

T DISPIRIT. v. a. [dis and spirit.] 1.To discourage; to deject; to depress; to damp; to terrify; to intimidate; to fright; to strike with fear.

Certain it is, that the poor man appeared so dispirited, that he spoke but few words after he came upon the scaffold.

Clarendon.

DIS

2. To put out of any state, condition,
office, trust, or dignity.

The providence of God strikes not in with them, but dashes, and even dispirits, all their endeavours, and makes their designs heartless and South.

ineffectual

culties.

Steady to my principles, and not dispirited with my afflictions, I have overcome all diffiAmidst all the honours that are paid him, he feels nothing in himself but a poor, weak, dispiDryden rited mortal, yielding to the laws of corruption. Rogers.

To displace any who are in, upon displeasure, is by all means to be avoided, unless there be a manifest cause for it.

Abdal, who commands

Bacon,

The city, is the prince's friend, and therefore
Must be displac'd, and thou shalt straight suc-
ceed him.
Denbam.

A religion, established by God himself,
should not be displaced by any thing, under a
demonstration of that divine power that first
introduced it.
South.
One then may be displac'd, and one may reign;
And want of merit render birthright vain.

3. To disorder.

Dryden.

You have displac'd the mirth, broke the good
meeting

With most admir'd disorder.
DISPLACENCY. n. s. [displicentia, Lat.]
Shaksp.
1. Incivility; disobligation.
2. Disgust; any thing unpleasing.

The displacencies that he receives, by the
TO DISPLANT. v. a. [dis and plant.]
consequences of his excess, far outweigh all that
is grateful in it.
Decay of Piety.
1. To remove a plant.
2. To drive a people from the place in
which they have fixed their residence.

2. To exhaust the spirits, to oppress the constitution of the body. He has dispirited himself by a debauch, and drank away his good humour. DISPIRITEDNESS. 2. s. [from dispirit.] Want of vigour; want of vivacity. Dict

Collier.

To DISPLACE. v. a. [dis and place.] 1. To put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the chessmen are displacen

All those countries, which, lying near unto
any mountains, or Irish desarts, had been planted
with English, where shortly displanted and lost.
Spenser.

I may justly account new plantations to be
the children of former kingdoms: I like a plan-
tation in a pure soil; that is, where people are
not displanted.
DISPLANTATION. n. s. [from dis and
Bacon.
plantatio.]

1. The removal of a plant.
2. The ejection of a people.

of.

The Edenites were garrisoned to resist the As-
syrians, whose displantation Senacherib vaunted
To DISPLAY. v. a. [desployer, Fr.]
Raleigh.
1. To spread wide.

The northern wind his wings did broad display
At his command, and reared him
up light.
Fairy Queen

There he him found all carelessly display'd,
In secret shadow from the sunny ray,
On a sweet bed of lilies softly laid. Fairy Queen.
2. To exhibit to the sight or mind.

You speak not like yourself, who ever yet
Have stood to charity, and display'd th' effects
Of disposition gentle.
Thou heav'n's alternate beauty canst display,
Shaksp
The blush of morning, and the milky way.
Dryden

The works of nature, and the words of reve-
lation, display truth to mankind in characters so
visible, that those, who are not quite blind, may
read.
The storm the dark Lycæan groves display'd,
Lecke.
And first to light expos'd the sacred shade.

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