Did not Paul and Barnabas dispute with vehemence about a very little point of conveniency?

To DISPUTE. v. a.

Atterbury.

1. To contend for, whether by words or action.

TO DISQUANTITY. v. a. [dis and quantity.] To lessen; to diminish. Not used.

Bê entreated

Of fifty to disquantity your train;

And the remainders, that shall still depend,
To be such men as may besought your age.
Shakspeare.

Things were disputed before they came to be DISQUIET. n. s. [dis and quiet.] Uneasi-
ness; restlessness; want of tranquillity;
vexation; disturbance; anxiety.

determined: men afterwards were not to dispute any longer, but to obey.

So dispute the prize,

Hooker.

As if you fought before Cydaria's eyes.

Dryden. One says the kingdom is his own: a Saxon drinks the quart, and swears he'll dispute that Tatler.

with him.

2. To question; to reason about. Now I am sent, and am not to dispute My prince's orders, but to execute.

To discuss; to think on.
Dispute it like a man.

Dryden.
Not in use.

-I shall do so;

But I must also feel it as a man.

DISPUTE. n. s. [from the verb.] ConShaksp. test; controversy; argumental conten

tion.

The question being about a fact, it is begging
it, to bring as a proof an hypothesis which is the
very thing in dispute.
The earth is now placed so conveniently, that
Locke.
plants thrive and flourish in it, and animals live:
this is matter of fact, and beyond all dispute.

DISPUTELESS. adj. [from dispute.] Un-
Bentley.
disputed; uncontrovertible.
DISPUTER. n. s. [from dispute.] A con-
Dict.
trovertist; one given to argument and
opposition.

Both were vehement disputers against the
heathen idolatry.
Those conclusions have generally obtained,
Stilling fleet.
and have been acknowledged even by disputers
themselves, till with labour they had stifled
their convictions.
DISQUALIFICATION. n. s. [from dis-
Rogers.
qualify.] That which disqualifies; that
which makes unfit.

It is recorded as a sufficient disqualification of a wife, that, speaking of her husband, she said, God forgive him. To DISQUALIFY. v. a. [dis and qualify.] Spectator. 1. To make unfit; to disable by some natural or legal impediment.

He that, upon a true principle, lives without any disquiet of thought, may be said to be happy. L'Estrange. If we give way to our passions, we do but gratify ourselves for the present, in order to our future disquiet. Tillotson. I had rather live in Ireland than under the frequent disquiets of hearing you are out of Swift. DISQUIET. adj. Unquiet; uneasy ; rest

order.

less.

DISQUIETUDE. n. s. [from disquiet.] Uneasiness; anxiety; disturbance; want of tranquillity.

Little happiness attends a great character, and to a multitude of disquietudes the desire of it subjects an ambitious mind. Addison's Spect "Tis the best preservative from all those teme poral fears and disquietudes, which corrupt the enjoyment, and embitter the lives, of men. Rogers,

to except from any grant. Swift has DISQUISITION. n. s. [disquisitio, Latin.]

from.

The church of England is the only body of christians which disqualifies those, who are employed to preach its doctrine, from sharing in the civil power, farther than as senators, Swift,

Examination; disputative inquiry.

God hath reserved tnany things to his own resolution, whose determinations we cannot hope from flesh: but with reverence must suspend unto that great day, whose justiçe shall either

condemn our curiosity, or resolve our disquisitions. Brozen.

'Tis indeed the proper place for this disquisition concerning the antediluvian earth. Woodward.

The royal society had a good effect, as it turned many of the greatest geniuses of that age to the disquisitions of natural knowledge.

Addison's Spectator.

The nature of animal diet may be discovered by taste and other sensible qualities, and some general rules, without particular disquisition upon every kind. Arbuthnot.

To DISRA'NK. v. a. [dis and rank.] To
degrade from his rank.
Dict.
DISREGARD. n. s. [dis and regard.] Slight
notice; neglect; contempt.

To DISREGARD. v. a. [from the noun.]
To slight; to neglect; to contemn.

Since we are to do good to the poor, to strangers, to enemies, those whom nature is too apt to make us despise, disregard, or hate, then undoubtedly we are to do good to all. Spratt. Those fasts which Godhath disregarded hitherto, he may regard for the time to come.

Smalridge.
Studious of good, man disregarded fame,
And useful knowledge was his eldest aim.

Blackmore.

DISREGA RDFUL. adj. [disregard and full.] Negligent; contemptuous. DISREGARD FULLY. adv. [from disregardful.] Negligently; contemptuously.

DISRE'LISH. n. s. [dis and relish.] 1. Bad taste; nauseousness.

Oft they assay'd,

Hunger and thirst constraining; drugg'd as oft
With hatefullest disrelish, writh'd their jaws
With soot and cinders fill'd.
Milton.

2. Dislike of the palate; squeamishness.
Bread or tobacco may be neglected, where

they are shewn not to be useful to health, because of an indifferency or disrelish to them.

Locke.

To DISRE LISH. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To make nauseous; to infect with an unpleasant tafte.

Fruits of taste to please

True appetite, and not disrelish thirst

Of nectarous draughts between, from milky

stream.

Milton.

The same anxiety and solicitude that embittered the pursuit, disrelishes the fruition itself.

2. To want a tafte of; to dislike.

Rogers.

The world is become too busy for me: every body is so concerned for the publick, that all private enjoyments are lost, or disrelished. Pope. DISREPUTATION. n.s. [dis and reputation.]

1. Disgrace; dishonour.

I will tell you what was the course in the happy days of queen Elizabeth, whom it is no disreputation to follow. Bacon.

2. Loss of reputation; ignominy.

The king fearing lest that the bad success might discourage his people, and bring disrepu tation to himself, forbad any report to be made.

Hayward.
Gluttony is not of so great disreputation
amongst men as drunkenness.
Taylor's Holy Living.
DISREPU ́TE. n.s. [dis and repute.] Iйl

How studiously did they cast a slur upon the king's person, and bring his governing principles under a disrepute. South. DISRESPECT. n. s. [dis and respect.] Incivility; want of reverence; irreverence; an act approaching to rudeness.

Any disrespect to acts of state, or to the persons of statesmen, was in no time more penal. Clarendon.

Aristotle writ a methodical discourse concerning these arts, chusing a certain benefit before the hazard that might accrue from the vain disre spects of ignorant persons. Wilkins.

DISRESPECTFUL.

What is more usual to warriours than impatience of bearing the least affront or disrespect? Pope. adj. [disrespect and full.] Irreverent ; uncivil. DISRESPECTFULLY. adv. [from disre spectful.] Irreverently; uncivilly.

We cannot believe our posterity will think so
disrespectfully of their great grandmothers, as
that they made themselves monstrous to appear
amiable.
Addison's Spectator.
To DISRO BE. v. a. (dis and robe.] To
undress; to uncover; to strip.

Thus when they had the witch disrobed quite,
And all her filthy feature open shown,
They let her go at will, and wander ways un-
known.
Spenser.

Kill the villain straight,
Disrobe him of the matchless monument,

Thy father's triumph o'er the savages. Sbaks.
These two great peers were disrobed of their
glory, the one by judgment, the other by vio-
lence.

Wotton.

Who will be prevailed with to disrobe himself at once of all his old opinions, and pretences to knowledge and learning, and turn himself out stark naked in quest afresh of new notions? Locke.

DISRUPTION. n. s. [disruptio, Latin.] 1. The act of breaking asunder.

This secures them from disruption which they would be in danger of, upon a sudden stretch or contortion. Ray.

2. Breach; rent; dilaceration.

The agent which effected this disruption, and dislocation of the strata, was seated within the earth.

Woodward.

If raging winds invade the atmosphere,
Their force its curious texture cannot tear,

Nor make disruption in the threads of air.
Blackmore.

DISSATISFACTION. n.s. [dis and satis-
faction.] The state of being dissatis-
fied; discontent; want of something to
complete the wish.

He that changes his condition, out of impati ence and dissatisfaction, when he has tried a new one, wishes for his old again. L'Estrange The ambitious man has little happiness, but is subject to much uneasiness and dissatisfaction. Addison's Spectator. In vain we try to remedy the defects of our acquisition, by varying the object: the same dissatisfaction pursues us through the circle of created goods. DISSATISFACTORINESS. n. s. [from disRogers. satisfactory.] Inability to give content. DISSATISFACTORY. adj. [from dissatisfy.] Unable to give content.

To DISSATISFY. v. a. [dis and satisfy.]
1. To discontent; to displease.

The advantages of life will not hold out to
the length of desire; and, since they are not big
enough to satisfy, they should not be big enough
to dissatisfy.
Collier.

2. To fail to please; to offend by the want of something requifite.

1 still retain some of my notions, after your
lordship's having appeared dissatisfied with them.
Locke.

To DISSE CT. v. a. [disseco, Latin.]
1. To cut in pieces. It is used chiefly of
anatomical inquiries, made by separa-
tion of the parts of a imal bodies.
No mask, no trick, no favour, no reserve;
Dissect your mind, examine every nerve.

Roscommon.

Pope.

Following life in creatures we dissect, We lose it in the moment we detect. 2. To divide and examine minutely. This paragraph, that has not one ingenuous word throughout, I have dissected for a sample.

Atterbury. DISSECTION. H.S. [dissectio, Latin.] 1. The act of separating the parts of animal bodies; anatomy.

She cut her up; but, upon the dissection, found her just like other hens. L'Estrange.

I shall enter upon the dissection of a coquet's heart, and communicate that curious piece of anatomy. Addison.

2. Nice examination.

Such strict enquiries into nature, so true and
so perfect a dissection of human kind, is the
work of extraordinary diligence.
DISSE ISIN. n.s. [from disseisir, French.]
Granville.
An unlawful dispossessing a man of his
land, tenement, or other immoveable
or incorporeal right,
To DISSE IZE. v. a. [disseiser, French.]
Cowell.
To dispossess; to deprive. It is com-
monly used of a legal act.

He so disseized of his griping gross,
The knight his thrilliant spear again assay'd
In his brass-plated body to emboss.

Fairy Q

If a prince should give a man, besides his ancient patrimony which his family had been disized of, an additional estate, never before in the possession of his ancestors, he could not be said to re-establish lineal succession. DISSE IZOR. n. s. [from disseize.] He Locke. that dispossesses another. To DISSE MBLE. v. a. [dissimulo, Lat. semblance, dissemblance, and probably dissembler, in old French.]

1. To hide under false appearance; to conceal; to pretend that not to be which really is.

She answered that her soul was God's; and touching her faith, as she could not change, so she would not dissemble it. Hayward,

2. To pretend that to be which is not.
This is not the true signification.
Your son Lucentio

Doth love my daughter, and she loveth him,
Or both dissemble deeply their affections. Shak.

In vain on the dissembled mother's tongue
Had cunning art and sly persuasion hung;
And real care in vain, and native love,
In the true parent's panting breast had strove.

To DISSE MBLE. V.N,

Prior.

Thy function too will varnish o'er our arts,
And sanctify dissembling.

Rowe.

2. Shakspeare uses it for fraudulent; un-
performing.

I that am curtail'd of this fair proportion,
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,
Deform'd, unfinish'd.

Richard III.
DISSE MBLER. n.s. [from dissemble.] A
hypocrite; a man who conceals his true
disposition.

Thou dost wrong me, thou dissembler, thou
The French king, in the business of peace.
Shakspeare
was the greater dissembler of the two. Bacon.
Such an one, whose virtue forbiddeth him to
be base and a dissembler, shall evermore hang
under the wheel.
Raleigh
'The queen, with rage inflam'd,
Thus greets him: Thou dissembler, would's
thou fly

Out of my arms by stealth?

Denham.

Men will trust no farther than they judge a person for sincerity fit to be trusted: a discovered dissembler can achieve nothing great and considerable.

South

DISSE MBLINGLY. adv. [from dissem-
ble.] With dissimulation; hypocriti-
cally.

They might all have been either dissemblingly
spoken, or falsely reported of the equity of the
barbarous king.

To DISSEMINATE.

Knolles.

v. a. [dissemino, Latin.] To scatter as seed; to sow; to spread every way.

Ill uses are made of it many times in stirring
up seditions, rebellions, in disseminating of he
resies, and infusing of prejudices. Hammond.
There is a nearly uniform and constant fire
or heat disseminated throughout the body of the
earth.
Woodward.
The Jews are indeed disseminated through all
the trading parts of the world.
Addison.

By firmness of mind, and freedom of speech,
the gospel was disseminated at first, and must stil
be maintained.
DISSEMINATION.
Atterbury.
12. 3. [disseminatio,
Lat.] The act of scattering like seed;
the act of sowing or spreading.

Though now at the greatest distance from the
beginning of errour, yet we are almoft lost in
its dissemination, whose ways are boundless, and
confess no circumscription.
Brown.
DISSEMINATOR.

n.s. [disseminator, Latin.] He that scatters; a scatterer; a sower; a spreader.

Men, vehemently thirsting after a name in the world, hope to acquire it by being the disseminators of novel doctrines. Decay of Piety. n. s. [dissensio, Latin.] Disagreement; strife; discord; contention; difference; quarrel; breach of

DISSE'NSION.

union.

Friends now fast sworn,

Whose hours, whose bed, whose meal, whose

exercise,

Are still together; who twine, as 'twere in love

DISSIMILAR. adj. [dis and similar.] Unlike; heterogeneous.

Simple oil is reduced into dissimilar parts, and yields a sweet oil, very differing from sallet oil. Boyle.

The light, whose rays are all alike refrangible, I call simple, homogeneal, and similar; and that, whose rays are some more refrangible than others, call compound, heterogeneal, and dissimilar. Newton.

If the fluid be supposed to consist of heteroge neous particles, we cannot conceive how those dissimilar parts can have a like situation.

Bentley. DISSIMILARITY. n. s. [from dissimilar.] Unlikeness; dissimilitude.

If the principle of reunion has not its energy in this life, whenever the attractions of sense cease, the acquired principles of dissimilarity must repel these beings from their centre: so that the principle of reunion, being set free by death, must drive these beings towards God their centre; and the principle of dissimilarity, forcing him to repel them with infinite violence from him, must make them infinitely miserable. Cheyne. [dissimilitudo,

DISSIMILITUDE. n. s.
Lat.] Unlikeness; want of resemblance.
Thereupon grew marvellous dissimilitudes, and
by reason thereof jealousies, heartburnings, jars,
Hooker.

and discords.

We doubt, whether the Lord, in different circumstances, did frame his people unto any utter dissimilitude, either with Egyptians or any other Hooker.

nation.

The dissimilitude between the Divinity and images, shews that images are not a suitable means whereby to worship God. Stilling fleet. As human society is founded in the similitude of some things, so it is promoted by some certain dissimilitudes. Gren.

Women are curious observers of the likeness
of children to parents, that they may, upon find-
ing dissimilitude, have the pleasure of hinting un-
chastity.
Pope's Odyssey, Notes.
DISSIMULATION. n. s. [dissimulatio,Lat.]
The act of dissembling; hypocrisy;
fallacious appearance; false pretensions.
Dissimulation is but a faint kind of policy; for
it asketh a strong wit, and a strong heart, to
know when to tell truth, and to do it.
Bacon.

He added not; and Satan, bowing low
His grey dissimulation, disappear'd
Into thin air diffus'd.

Milton.

The circling mountains eddy in,
From the bare wild, the dissipated storm.

2. To scatter the attention.

Dissimulation may be taken for a bare concealment of one's mind; in which sense we commonly say, that it is prudence to dissemble injuries. South.

DISSIPABLE.adj. [from dissipate.] Easily scattered; liable to dispersion.

Thomson.

This slavery to his passions produced a life irregular and dissipated.

3. To spend a fortune.

The heat of those plants is very dissipable, which under the earth is contained and held in; but when it cometh to the air, it exhaleth. Bacon.

Savage's Life.

The wherry that contains
Of dissipated wealth the poor remains.

London.

DISSIPATION. n. s. [dissipatio, Latin.] 1. The act of dispersion.

The effects of heat are most advanced when it worketh upon a body without loss or dissipation of the matter. Bacon.

Abraham was contemporary with Peleg, in whose time the famous dissipation of mankind, and distinction of languages, happened. 2. The state of being dispersed.

The parts of plants are very tender, as consist ing of corpuscles which are extremely small and light, and therefore the more easily dissipable. Woodward's Natural History. To DI'SSIPATE. v. a. [dissipatus, Lat.] 1. To scatter every way; to disperse.

Now

Foul dissipation follow'd, and forc'd rout.

Hale.

Milton. Where the earth contains nitre within it, if that heat which is continually streaming out of the earth be preserved, its dissipation prevented, and the cold kept off by some building, this alone is ordinarily sufficient to raise up the nitre. Woodward.

3. Scattered attention.

I have begun two or three letters to you by snatches, and been prevented from finishing them by a thousand avocations and dissipations. To DISSOCIATE. v. a. [dissocio, Latin.] Swift. To separate; to disunite; to part.

The heat at length grows so great, that it again dissipates and bears off those corpuscles which it brought. It is covered with skin and hair, to quench Woodrvard. and dissipate the force of any stroke, and retard, the edge of any weapon.

Ray

In the dissociating action, even of the gentlest fire, upon a concrete, there perhaps vanish some active and fugitive particles, whose presence was requisite to contain the concrete under such a determinate form.

DISSOLVABLE. adj. [from dissolve.] ĆaBoyle. pable of dissolution; liable to be melted.

Newton.

Such things as are not dissolvable by the moisture of the tongue, act not upon the taste. DISSOLUBLE. adj. [dissolubilis, Latin.] Capable of separation; having one part separable from another by heat or moisture.

Nodules, reposed in cliffs amongst the earth, being hard and not so dissoluble, are left behind. Woodward's Natural History. DISSOLUBILITY. n. s. [from dissoluble.] Liableness to suffer a disunion of parts by heat or moisture; capacity of being dissolved.

Bodies seem to have an intrinsick principle of alteration, or corruption, from the dissolubility of their parts, and the coalition of several particles endued with contrary and destructive qualities each to other. To DISSOLVE. v. a. [dissolvo, Latin.] Hale's Origin of Mankind. 1. To destroy the form of any thing by disuniting the parts with heat or moisture; to melt; to liquefy.

I have heard of anchovies dissolved in sauce. Dryden. The whole terrestrial globe was taken all to pieces, and dissolved, at the deluge. Woodr. 2. To break; to disunite in any manner.

Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be?

2 Peter.