Chapter 40

Dis*cu"tient (?), a. [L. discutiens, p. pr. of discutere. See Discuss.] (Med.) Serving to disperse morbid matter; discussive; as, a discutient application. -- n. An agent (as a medicinal application) which serves to disperse morbid matter. "Foment with discutiens." Wiseman.

Dis*dain" (?; 277), n. [OE. desdain, disdein, OF. desdein, desdaing, F. dédain, fr. the verb. See Disdain, v. t.] 1. A feeling of contempt and aversion; the regarding anything as unworthy of or beneath one; scorn.

How my soul is moved with just disdain!

Pope.

Often implying an idea of haughtiness.

Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes.

Shak.

2. That which is worthy to be disdained or regarded with contempt and aversion. [Obs.]

Most loathsome, filthy, foul, and full of vile disdain.

Spenser.

3. The state of being despised; shame. [Obs.] Shak.

Syn. -- Haughtiness; scorn; contempt; arrogance; pride. See Haughtiness.

Dis*dain" (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disdained (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Disdaining.] [OE. disdainen, desdainen, OF. desdeigner, desdaigner, F. dédaigner; des- (L. dis-) + daigner to deign, fr. L. dignari to deem worthy. See Deign.] 1. To think unworthy; to deem unsuitable or unbecoming; as, to disdain to do a mean act.

Disdaining . . . that any should bear the armor of the best knight living.

Sir P. Sidney.

2. To reject as unworthy of one's self, or as not deserving one's notice; to look with scorn upon; to scorn, as base acts, character, etc.

When the Philistine . . . saw David, he disdained him; for he was but a youth.

1 Sam. xvii. 42.

'T is great, 't is manly to disdain disguise.

Young.

Syn. -- To contemn; despise; scorn. See Contemn.

Dis*dain", v. i. To be filled with scorn; to feel contemptuous anger; to be haughty.

And when the chief priests and scribes saw the marvels that he did . . . they disdained.

Genevan Testament (Matt. xxi. 15).

Dis*dained" (?), a. Disdainful. [Obs.]

Revenge the jeering and disdained contempt Of this proud king.

Shak.

Dis*dain"ful (?), a. Full of disdain; expressing disdain; scornful; contemptuous; haughty.

From these Turning disdainful to an equal good.

Akenside.

-- Dis*dain"ful*ly, adv. -- Dis*dain"ful*ness, n.

Dis*dain"ish*ly, adv. Disdainfully. [Obs.] Vives.

Dis*dain"ous (?), a. [OF. desdeignos, desdaigneux, F. dédaigneux.] Disdainful. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

Dis*dain"ous*ly, adv. Disdainfully. [Obs.] Bale.

Dis*de"i*fy (?), v. t. To divest or deprive of deity or of a deific rank or condition. Feltham.

Dis*deign" (?), v. t. To disdain. [Obs.]

Guyon much disdeigned so loathly sight.

Spenser.

Dis*di"a*clast (?), n. [Gr. di`s- twice + diakla^n to break in twain; dia` through + kla^n to break.] (Physiol.) One of the dark particles forming the doubly refracting disks of muscle fibers.

Dis*di`a*pa"son (?), n. [Pref. dis- (Gr. &?;) + diapason.] (Anc. Mus.) An interval of two octaves, or a fifteenth; -- called also bisdiapason.

Dis*ease" (?), n. [OE. disese, OF. desaise; des- (L. dis-) + aise ease. See Ease.] 1. Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet. [Obs.]

So all that night they passed in great disease.

Spenser.

To shield thee from diseases of the world.

Shak.

2. An alteration in the state of the body or of some of its organs, interrupting or disturbing the performance of the vital functions, and causing or threatening pain and weakness; malady; affection; illness; sickness; disorder; -- applied figuratively to the mind, to the moral character and habits, to institutions, the state, etc.

Diseases desperate grown, By desperate appliances are relieved.

Shak.

The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public counsels have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have every where perished.

Madison.

Disease germ. See under Germ.

Syn. -- Distemper; ailing; ailment; malady; disorder; sickness; illness; complaint; indisposition; affection. -- Disease, Disorder, Distemper, Malady, Affection. Disease is the leading medical term. Disorder mean&?; much the same, with perhaps some slight reference to an irregularity of the system. Distemper is now used by physicians only of the diseases of animals. Malady is not a medical term, and is less used than formerly in literature. Affection has special reference to the part, organ, or function disturbed; as, his disease is an affection of the lungs. A disease is usually deep- seated and permanent, or at least prolonged; a disorder is often slight, partial, and temporary; malady has less of a technical sense than the other terms, and refers more especially to the suffering endured. In a figurative sense we speak of a disease mind, of disordered faculties, and of mental maladies.

Dis*ease", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Diseased (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Diseasing.] 1. To deprive of ease; to disquiet; to trouble; to distress. [Obs.]

His double burden did him sore disease.

Spenser.

2. To derange the vital functions of; to afflict with disease or sickness; to disorder; -- used almost exclusively in the participle diseased.

He was diseased in body and mind.

Macaulay.

Dis*eased" (?), a. Afflicted with disease.

It is my own diseased imagination that torments me.

W. Irving.

Syn. -- See Morbid.

Dis*eas"ed*ness (?), n. The state of being diseased; a morbid state; sickness. [R.] T. Burnet.

Dis*ease"ful (?), a. 1. Causing uneasiness. [Obs.]

Disgraceful to the king and diseaseful to the people.

Bacon.

2. Abounding with disease; producing diseases; as, a diseaseful climate. [R.]

Dis*ease"ful*ness, n. The quality of being diseaseful; trouble; trial. [R.] Sir P. Sidney.

Dis*ease"ment (?), n. Uneasiness; inconvenience. [Obs.] Bacon.

Dis*edge" (?), v. t. To deprive of an edge; to blunt; to dull.

Served a little to disedge The sharpness of that pain about her heart.

Tennyson.

Dis*ed"i*fy (?), v. t. To fail of edifying; to injure. [R.]

Dis*eld"er (?), v. t. To deprive of an elder or elders, or of the office of an elder. [Obs.] Fuller.

Di*sel"e*nide (?; 104), n. [Pref. di- + selenide.] (Chem.) A selenide containing two atoms of selenium in each molecule.

Dis`em*bark" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disembarked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Disembarking.] [Pref. dis- + embark: cf. F. désembarquer.] To remove from on board a vessel; to put on shore; to land; to debark; as, the general disembarked the troops.

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Go to the bay, and disembark my coffers.

Shak.

Dis`em*bark" (?), v. i. To go ashore out of a ship or boat; to leave a ship; to debark.

And, making fast their moorings, disembarked.

Cowper.

Dis*em`bar*ka"tion (?), n. The act of disembarking.

Dis`em*bark"ment (?), n. Disembarkation. [R.]

Dis`em*bar"rass (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disembarrassed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Disembarrassing.] [Pref. dis- + embarrass: cf. F. désembarasser.] To free from embarrassment, or perplexity; to clear; to extricate.

To disembarrass himself of his companion.

Sir W. Scott.

Dis`em*bar"rass*ment (?), n. Freedom or relief from impediment or perplexity.

Dis`em*bay" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disembayed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Disembaying.] [Pref. dis- + embay.] To clear from a bay. Sherburne.

Dis`em*bel"lish (?), v. t. [Pref. dis- + embellish: cf. F. désembellir.] To deprive of embellishment; to disadorn. Carlyle.

Dis`em*bit"ter (?), v. t. To free from

Dis`em*bod"ied (?), a. Divested of a body; ceased to be corporal; incorporeal.

The disembodied spirits of the dead.

Bryant.

Dis`em*bod"i*ment (?), n. The act of disembodying, or the state of being disembodied.

Dis`em*bod"y (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disembodied (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Disembodying.] 1. To divest of the body or corporeal existence.

Devils embodied and disembodied.

Sir W. Scott.

2. (Mil.) To disarm and disband, as a body of soldiers. Wilhelm.

Dis`em*bogue" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disembogued (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Disemboguing.] [Sp. desembocar; pref. des- (L. dis-) + embocar to put into the mouth, fr. en (L. in) + boca mouth, fr. L. bucca cheek. Cf. Debouch, Embogue.] 1. To pour out or discharge at the mouth, as a stream; to vent; to discharge into an ocean, a lake, etc.

Rolling down, the steep Timavus raves, And through nine channels disembogues his waves.

Addison.

2. To eject; to cast forth. [R.] Swift.

Dis`em*bogue", v. i. To become discharged; to flow out; to find vent; to pour out contents.

Volcanos bellow ere they disembogue.

Young.

Dis`em*bogue"ment (?), n. The act of disemboguing; discharge. Mease.

Dis`em*bos"som (?), v. t. To separate from the bosom. [R.] Young.

Dis`em*bow"el (ds`m*bou"l), v. t. [See Embowel.] 1. To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate.

Soon after their death, they are disemboweled.

Cook.

Roaring floods and cataracts that sweep From disemboweled earth the virgin gold.

Thomson.

2. To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider. [R.] "Her disemboweled web." J. Philips.

Dis`em*bow"el*ment (?), n. The act of disemboweling, or state of being disemboweled; evisceration.

Dis`em*bow"ered (?), a. Deprived of, or removed from, a bower. [Poetic] Bryant.

Dis`em*bran"gle (?), v. t. [Pref. dis- + em = en (L. in) + brangle.] To free from wrangling or litigation. [Obs.] Berkeley.

Dis`em*broil" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disembroiled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Disembroiling.] [Pref. dis- + embroil.] To disentangle; to free from perplexity; to extricate from confusion.

Vaillant has disembroiled a history that was lost to the world before his time.

Addison.

Dis`em*ploy" (?), v. t. To throw out of employment. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Dis`em*ploy"ment (?), n. The state of being disemployed, or deprived of employment.

This glut of leisure and disemployment.

Jer. Taylor.

Dis`em*pow"er (?), v. t. To deprive of power; to divest of strength. H. Bushnell.

Dis`en*a"ble (?), v. t. [Pref. dis- + enable.] To disable; to disqualify.

The sight of it might damp me and disenable me to speak.

State Trials (1640).

Dis`en*am"or (?), v. t. To free from the captivity of love. Shelton.

Dis`en*chained" (?), a. Freed from restraint; unrestrained. [Archaic] E. A. Poe.

Dis`en*chant" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disenchanted; p. pr. & vb. n. Disenchanting.] [Pref. dis- + enchant: cf. F. désenchanter.] To free from enchantment; to deliver from the power of charms or spells; to free from fascination or delusion.

Haste to thy work; a noble stroke or two Ends all the charms, and disenchants the grove.

Dryden.

Dis`en*chant"er (?), n. One who, or that which, disenchants.

Dis`en*chant"ment (?), n. [Pref. dis- + enchantment: cf. F. désenchantement.] The act of disenchanting, or state of being disenchanted. Shelton.

Dis`en*charm" (?), v. t. [Pref. dis- + en (L. in) + charm.] To free from the influence of a charm or spell; to disenchant. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

Dis`en*close (?), v. t. See Disinclose.

Dis`en*cour"age*ment (?), n. Discouragement. [Obs.] Spectator.

Dis`en*crese" (?), v. i. [Pref. dis- + OE. encrese, E. increase.] To decrease. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Dis`en*crese", n. Decrease. [Obs.]

Dis`en*cum"ber (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disencumbered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Disencumbering.] [Pref. dis- + encumber: cf. F. désencombrer.] To free from encumbrance, or from anything which clogs, impedes, or obstructs; to disburden. Owen.

I have disencumbered myself from rhyme.

Dryden.

Dis`en*cum"brance (?), n. Freedom or deliverance from encumbrance, or anything burdensome or troublesome. Spectator.

Dis`en*dow" (?), v. t. To deprive of an endowment, as a church. Gladstone.

Dis`en*dow"ment (?), n. The act of depriving of an endowment or endowments.

[The] disendowment of the Irish Church.

G. B. Smith.

Dis`en*fran"chise (?), v. t. To disfranchise; to deprive of the rights of a citizen. -- Dis`en*fran"chise*ment (#), n.

Dis`en*gage" (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disengaged (#); p. pr. & vb. n. Disengaging.] [Pref. dis- + engage: cf. F. désengager.] To release from that with which anything is engaged, engrossed, involved, or entangled; to extricate; to detach; to set free; to liberate; to clear; as, to disengage one from a party, from broils and controversies, from an oath, promise, or occupation; to disengage the affections a favorite pursuit, the mind from study.

To disengage him and the kingdom, great sums were to be borrowed.

Milton.

Caloric and light must be disengaged during the process.

Transl. of Lavoisier.

Syn. -- To liberate; free; loose; extricate; clear; disentangle; detach; withdraw; wean.

Dis`en*gage", v. i. To release one's self; to become detached; to free one's self.

From a friends's grave how soon we disengage!

Young.

Dis`en*gaged" (?), a. Not engaged; free from engagement; at leisure; free from occupation or care; vacant. -- Dis`en*ga"ged*ness (#), n.

Dis`en*gage"ment (?), n. [Pref. dis- + engagement: cf. F. désengagement.] 1. The act of disengaging or setting free, or the state of being disengaged.

It is easy to render this disengagement of caloric and light evident to the senses.

Transl. of Lavoisier.

A disengagement from earthly trammels.

Sir W. Jones.

2. Freedom from engrossing occupation; leisure.

Disengagement is absolutely necessary to enjoyment.

Bp. Butler.

Dis`en*ga"ging (?), a. Loosing; setting free; detaching.

Disengaging machinery. See under Engaging.

Dis`en*no"ble (?), v. t. To deprive of that which ennobles; to degrade.

An unworthy behavior degrades and disennobles a man.

Guardian.

Dis`en*roll" (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Disenrolled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Disenrolling.] To erase from a roll or list. [Written also disenrol.] Donne.

Dis`en*san"i*ty (?), n. [Pref. dis- + en (L. in) + sanity.] Insanity; folly. [Obs.]

What tediosity and disensanity Is here among!

Beau. & Fl.

Dis`en*shroud"ed (?), a. Freed from a shroudlike covering; unveiled.

The disenshrouded statue.

R. Browning.

Dis`en*slave" (?), v. t. To free from bondage or slavery; to disenthrall.

He shall disenslave and redeem his soul.

South.

Dis`en*tail" (?), v. t. (Law) To free from entailment.

Dis`en*tan"gle (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disentangled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Disentangling (?).] 1. To free from entanglement; to release from a condition of being intricately and confusedly involved or interlaced; to reduce to orderly arrangement; to straighten out; as, to disentangle a skein of yarn.

2. To extricate from complication and perplexity; disengage from embarrassing connection or intermixture; to disembroil; to set free; to separate.

To disentangle truth from error.

Stewart.

To extricate and disentangle themselves out of this labyrinth.

Clarendon.

A mind free and disentangled from all corporeal mixtures.

Bp. Stillingfleet.

Syn. -- To loose; extricate; disembarrass; disembroil; clear; evolve; disengage; separate; detach.

Dis`en*tan"gle*ment (?), n. The act of disentangling or clearing from difficulties. Warton.

Dis`en*ter" (?), v. t. See Disinter.

Dis`en*thrall" (?), v. t. [See Enthrall.] To release from thralldom or slavery; to give freedom to; to disinthrall. [Written also disenthral.] Milton.

Dis`en*thrall"ment (?), n. Liberation from bondage; emancipation; disinthrallment. [Written also disenthralment.]

Dis`en*throne" (?), v. t. To dethrone; to depose from sovereign authority. Milton.

Dis`en*ti"tle (?), v. t. To deprive of title or claim.

Every ordinary offense does not disentitle a son to the love of his father.

South.

Dis`en*tomb" (?), v. t. To take out from a tomb; a disinter.

Dis`en*trail" (?), v. t. To disembowel; to let out or draw forth, as the entrails. [Obs.]

As if he thought her soul to disentrail.

Spenser.

Dis`en*trance" (?), v. t. To awaken from a trance or an enchantment. Hudibras.

Dis`en*twine" (?), v. t. To free from being entwined or twisted. Shelley.

Di*sep"al*ous (?), a. [Pref. di- + sepalous.] (Bot.) Having two sepals; two- sepaled.

Dis*ert" (?), a. [L. disertus, for dissertus, p. p.: cf. F. disert. See Dissert.] Eloquent. [Obs.]

Dis*er"ti*tude (?), n. [L. disertitud&?;.] Eloquence. [Obs.]

Dis*ert"y (?), adv. Expressly; clearly; eloquently. [Obs.] Holland.

Dis`es*pouse" (?), v. t. To release from espousal or plighted faith. [Poetic] Milton.

Dis`es*tab"lish (?), v. t. To unsettle; to break up (anything established); to deprive, as a church, of its connection with the state. M. Arnold.

Dis`es*tab"lish*ment (?), n. 1. The act or process of unsettling or breaking up that which has been established; specifically, the withdrawal of the support of the state from an established church; as, the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church by Act of Parliament.

2. The condition of being disestablished.

Dis`es*teem" (?), n. Want of esteem; low estimation, inclining to dislike; disfavor; disrepute.

Disesteem and contempt of the public affairs.

Milton.

Dis`es*teem", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disesteemed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Disesteeming.] 1. To feel an absence of esteem for; to regard with disfavor or slight contempt; to slight.

But if this sacred gift you disesteem.

Denham.

Qualities which society does not disesteem.

Ld. Lytton.

2. To deprive of esteem; to bring into disrepute; to cause to be regarded with disfavor. [Obs.]

What fables have you vexed, what truth redeemed, Antiquities searched, opinions disesteemed?

B. Jonson.

Dis`es*teem"er (?), n. One who disesteems. Boyle.

Dis*es`ti*ma"tion (?), n. Disesteem.

Dis*ex"er*cise (?), v. t. To deprive of exercise; to leave untrained. [Obs.]

By disexercising and blunting our abilities.

Milton.

Dis*fame" (?), n. Disrepute. [R.] Tennyson.

Dis*fan"cy (?), v. t. To dislike. [Obs.]

Dis*fash"ion (?), v. t. [Pref. dis- + fashion. See Fashion, and cf. Defeat.] To disfigure. [Obs.] Sir T. More.

Dis*fa"vor (?), n. [Pref. dis- + favor: cf. OF. disfaveur, F. défaveur.] [Written also disfavour.] 1. Want of favor of favorable regard; disesteem; disregard.

The people that deserved my disfavor.

Is. x. 6 (1551).

Sentiment of disfavor against its ally.

Gladstone.

2. The state of not being in favor; a being under the displeasure of some one; state of unacceptableness; as, to be in disfavor at court.

3. An unkindness; a disobliging act.

He might dispense favors and disfavors.

Clarendon.

Dis*fa"vor, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disfavored (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Disfavoring.] 1. To withhold or withdraw favor from; to regard with disesteem; to show disapprobation of; to discountenance.

Countenanced or disfavored according as they obey.

Swift.

2. To injure the form or looks of. [R.] B. Jonson.

Dis*fa"vor*a*ble (?), a. [Cf. F. défavorable.] Unfavorable. [Obs.] Stow.

Dis*fa"vor*a*bly, adv. Unpropitiously. [Obs.]

Dis*fa"vor*er (?), n. One who disfavors. Bacon.

Dis*fea"ture (?; 135), v. t. [Cf. Defeature.] To deprive of features; to mar the features of. [R.]

Dis*fel"low*ship (?), v. t. [See Fellowship, v. t.] To exclude from fellowship; to refuse intercourse with, as an associate.

An attempt to disfellowship an evil, but to fellowship the evildoer.

Freewill Bapt. Quart.

Dis*fig`u*ra"tion (?), n. [See Disfigure, and cf. Defiguration.] The act of disfiguring, or the state of being disfigured; defacement; deformity; disfigurement. Gauden.

Dis*fig"ure (?; 135), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disfigured (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Disfiguring.] [OF. desfigurer, F. défigurer; pref. des- (L. dis-) + figurer to fashion, shape, fr. L. figurare, fr. figura figure. See Figure, and cf. Defiguration.] To mar the figure of; to render less complete, perfect, or beautiful in appearance; to deface; to deform.

Disfiguring not God's likeness, but their own.

Milton.

Syn. -- To deface; deform; mar; injure.

Dis*fig"ure, n. Disfigurement; deformity. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Dis*fig"ure*ment (?), n. 1. Act of disfiguring, or state of being disfigured; deformity. Milton.

2. That which disfigures; a defacement; a blot.

Uncommon expressions . . . are a disfigurement rather than any embellishment of discourse.

Hume.

Dis*fig"ur*er (?), n. One who disfigures.

Dis*flesh" (?), v. t. To reduce the flesh or obesity of. [Obs.] Shelton.

Dis*for"est (?), v. t. 1. To disafforest. Fuller.

2. To clear or deprive of forests or trees.

Dis*for`es*ta"tion (?), n. The act of clearing land of forests. Daniel.

Dis*form"i*ty (?), n. [Cf. Deformity.] Discordance or diversity of form; unlikeness in form.

Uniformity or disformity in comparing together the respective figures of bodies.

S. Clarke.

Dis*fran"chise (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disfranchised (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Disfranchising.] [Cf. Diffranchise.] To deprive of a franchise or chartered right; to dispossess of the rights of a citizen, or of a particular privilege, as of voting, holding office, etc.

Sir William Fitzwilliam was disfranchised.

Fabyan (1509).

He was partially disfranchised so as to be made incapable of taking part in public affairs.

Thirlwall.

Dis*fran"chise*ment (?), n. The act of disfranchising, or the state of being disfranchised; deprivation of privileges of citizenship or of chartered immunities.

Sentenced first to dismission from the court, and then to disfranchisement and expulsion from the colony.

Palfrey.

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Dis*fri"ar (ds*fr"r), v. t. To depose or withdraw from the condition of a friar. [Obs.]

Many did quickly unnun and disfriar themselves.

Fuller.

Dis*frock" (ds*frk"), v. t. To unfrock.

Dis*fur"nish (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disfurnished (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Disfurnishing.] [Pref. dis- + furnish.] To deprive of that with which anything is furnished (furniture, equipments, etc.); to strip; to render destitute; to divest.

I am a thing obscure, disfurnished of All merit, that can raise me higher.

Massinger.

Dis*fur"nish*ment (?), n. The act of disfurnishing, or the state of being disfurnished. Daniel.

Dis*fur"ni*ture (?; 135), n. The act of disfurnishing, or the state of being disfurnished. [Obs.]

Dis*fur"ni*ture, v. t. To disfurnish. [R.] East.

Dis*gage" (?), v. t. To free from a gage or pledge; to disengage. [Obs.] Holland.

Dis*gal"lant (?), v. t. To deprive of gallantry. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Dis*gar"land (?), v. t. To strip of a garland. [Poetic] "Thy locks disgarland." Drummond.

Dis*gar"nish (?), v. t. [Pref. dis- + garnish. See Degarnish.] To divest of garniture; to disfurnish; to dismantle. Bp. Hall.

Dis*gar"ri*son (?), v. t. To deprive of a garrison. Hewyt.

Dis*gav"el (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disgaveled (?) or Disgaveled; p. pr. & vb. n. Disgaveling.] [See Gavelkind.] (Eng. Law) To deprive of that principal quality of gavelkind tenure by which lands descend equally among all the sons of the tenant; -- said of lands. Burrill.

Dis*gest" (?), v. t. To digest. [Obs.] Bacon.

Dis*ges"tion (?; 106), n. Digestion. [Obs.]

Dis*glo"ri*fy (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disglorified (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Disglorifying.] To deprive of glory; to treat with indignity. [R.]

Disglorified, blasphemed, and had in scorn.

Milton.

Dis*glo"ry (?), n. Dishonor. [Obs.]

To the disglory of God's name.

Northbrooke.

Dis*gorge" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disgorged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Disgorging.] [F. dégorger, earlier desgorger; pref. dé-, des- (L. dis- ) + gorge. See Gorge.] 1. To eject or discharge by the throat and mouth; to vomit; to pour forth or throw out with violence, as if from the mouth; to discharge violently or in great quantities from a confined place.

This mountain when it rageth, . . . casteth forth huge stones, disgorgeth brimstone.

Hakluyt.

They loudly laughed To see his heaving breast disgorge the briny draught.

Dryden.

2. To give up unwillingly as what one has wrongfully seized and appropriated; to make restitution of; to surrender; as, he was compelled to disgorge his ill-gotten gains.

Dis*gorge", v. i. To vomit forth what anything contains; to discharge; to make restitution.

See where it flows, disgorging at seven mouths Into the sea.

Milton.

Dis*gorge"ment (?), n. [Cf. F. dégorgement.] The act of disgorging; a vomiting; that which is disgorged. Bp. Hall.