Chapter 41

Dis*gos"pel (?), v. i. To be inconsistent with, or act contrary to, the precepts of the gospel; to pervert the gospel. [Obs.] Milton.

Dis*grace" (?; 277), n. [F. disgrâce; pref. dis- (L. dis-) + grâce. See Grace.] 1. The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect.

Macduff lives in disgrace.

Shak.

2. The state of being dishonored, or covered with shame; dishonor; shame; ignominy.

To tumble down thy husband and thyself From top of honor to disgrace's feet?

Shak.

3. That which brings dishonor; cause of shame or reproach; great discredit; as, vice is a disgrace to a rational being.

4. An act of unkindness; a disfavor. [Obs.]

The interchange continually of favors and disgraces.

Bacon.

Syn. -- Disfavor; disesteem; opprobrium; reproach; discredit; disparagement; dishonor; shame; infamy; ignominy; humiliation.

Dis*grace", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disgraced (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Disgracing (?).] [Cf. F. disgracier. See Disgrace, n.] 1. To put out of favor; to dismiss with dishonor.

Flatterers of the disgraced minister.

Macaulay.

Pitt had been disgraced and the old Duke of Newcastle dismissed.

J. Morley.

2. To do disfavor to; to bring reproach or shame upon; to dishonor; to treat or cover with ignominy; to lower in estimation.

Shall heap with honors him they now disgrace.

Pope.

His ignorance disgraced him.

Johnson.

3. To treat discourteously; to upbraid; to revile.

The goddess wroth gan foully her disgrace.

Spenser.

Syn. -- To degrade; humble; humiliate; abase; disparage; defame; dishonor; debase.

Dis*grace"ful (?), a. Bringing disgrace; causing shame; shameful; dishonorable; unbecoming; as, profaneness is disgraceful to a man. -- Dis*grace"ful*ly, adv. -- Dis*grace"ful*ness, n.

The Senate have cast you forth disgracefully.

B. Jonson.

Dis*gra"cer (?), n. One who disgraces.

Dis*gra"cious (?), a. [Cf. F. disgracieux.] Wanting grace; unpleasing; disagreeable. Shak.

Dis*gra"cive (?), a. Disgracing. [Obs.] Feltham.

Dis`gra*da"tion (?), n. (Scots Law) Degradation; a stripping of titles and honors.

Dis*grade" (?), v. t. To degrade. [Obs.] Foxe.

Dis*grad"u*ate (?; 135), v. t. To degrade; to reduce in rank. [Obs.] Tyndale.

Dis"gre*gate (?), v. t. [L. disgregare; dis- + gregare to collect, fr. grex, gregis, flock or herd.] To disperse; to scatter; -- opposite of congregate. [Obs.]

Dis`gre*ga"tion (?), n. (Physiol.) The process of separation, or the condition of being separate, as of the molecules of a body.

Dis*grun"tle (?), v. t. To dissatisfy; to disaffect; to anger. [Colloq.]

Dis*guise" (?; 232), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disguised (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Disguising.] [OE. desguisen, disgisen, degisen, OF. desguisier, F. déguiser; pref. des- (L. dis-) + guise. See Guise.] 1. To change the guise or appearance of; especially, to conceal by an unusual dress, or one intended to mislead or deceive.

Bunyan was forced to disguise himself as a wagoner.

Macaulay.

2. To hide by a counterfeit appearance; to cloak by a false show; to mask; as, to disguise anger; to disguise one's sentiments, character, or intentions.

All God's angels come to us disguised.

Lowell.

3. To affect or change by liquor; to intoxicate.

I have just left the right worshipful, and his myrmidons, about a sneaker of five gallons; the whole magistracy was pretty well disguised before I gave them the ship.

Spectator.

Syn. -- To conceal; hide; mask; dissemble; dissimulate; feign; pretend; secrete. See Conceal.

Dis*guise", n. 1. A dress or exterior put on for purposes of concealment or of deception; as, persons doing unlawful acts in disguise are subject to heavy penalties.

There is no passion which steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises, than pride.

Addison.

2. Artificial language or manner assumed for deception; false appearance; counterfeit semblance or show.

That eye which glances through all disguises.

D. Webster.

3. Change of manner by drink; intoxication. Shak.

4. A masque or masquerade. [Obs.]

Disguise was the old English word for a masque.

B. Jonson.

Dis*guis"ed*ly (?), adv. In disguise.

Dis*guis"ed*ness, n. The state of being disguised.

Dis*guise"ment (?), n. Disguise. [R.] Spenser.

Dis*guis"er (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, disguises. Shak.

2. One who wears a disguise; an actor in a masquerade; a masker. [Obs.] E. Hall.

Dis*guis"ing, n. A masque or masquerade. [Obs.]

Dis*gust" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disgusted; p. pr. & vb. n. Disgusting.] [OF. desgouster, F. dégoûter; pref. des- (L. dis-) + gouster to taste, F. goûter, fr. L. gustare, fr. gustus taste. See Gust to taste.] To provoke disgust or strong distaste in; to cause (any one) loathing, as of the stomach; to excite aversion in; to offend the moral taste of; -- often with at, with, or by.

To disgust him with the world and its vanities.

Prescott.

Ærius is expressly declared . . . to have been disgusted at failing.

J. H. Newman.

Alarmed and disgusted by the proceedings of the convention.

Macaulay.

Dis*gust", n. [Cf. OF. desgoust, F. dégoût. See Disgust, v. t.] Repugnance to what is offensive; aversion or displeasure produced by something loathsome; loathing; strong distaste; -- said primarily of the sickening opposition felt for anything which offends the physical organs of taste; now rather of the analogous repugnance excited by anything extremely unpleasant to the moral taste or higher sensibilities of our nature; as, an act of cruelty may excite disgust.

The manner of doing is more consequence than the thing done, and upon that depends the satisfaction or disgust wherewith it is received.

Locke.

In a vulgar hack writer such oddities would have excited only disgust.

Macaulay.

Syn. -- Nausea; loathing; aversion; distaste; dislike; disinclination; abomination. See Dislike.

Dis*gust"ful (?), a. Provoking disgust; offensive to the taste; exciting aversion; disgusting.

That horrible and disgustful situation.

Burke.

Dis*gust"ful*ness, n. The state of being disgustful.

Dis*gust"ing, a. That causes disgust; sickening; offensive; revolting. -- Dis*gust"ing*ly, adv.

Dish (dsh), n. [AS. disc, L. discus dish, disc, quoit, fr. Gr. di`skos quoit, fr. dikei^n to throw. Cf. Dais, Desk, Disc, Discus.] 1. A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table.

She brought forth butter in a lordly dish.

Judg. v. 25.

2. The food served in a dish; hence, any particular kind of food; as, a cold dish; a warm dish; a delicious dish. "A dish fit for the gods." Shak. [1913 Webster]

Home-home dishes that drive one from home.

Hood.

3. The state of being concave, or like a dish, or the degree of such concavity; as, the dish of a wheel.

4. A hollow place, as in a field. Ogilvie.

5. (Mining) (a) A trough about 28 inches long, 4 deep, and 6 wide, in which ore is measured. (b) That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.

Dish, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dished (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dishing.] 1. To put in a dish, ready for the table.

2. To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish; as, to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes.

3. To frustrate; to beat; to ruin. [Low]

To dish out. 1. To serve out of a dish; to distribute in portions at table. 2. (Arch.) To hollow out, as a gutter in stone or wood. -- To dish up, to take (food) from the oven, pots, etc., and put in dishes to be served at table.

Dis`ha*bil"i*tate (?), v. t. [Cf. Disability.] To disqualify. [R.]

Dis`ha*bille" (?), n. [See Deshabille.] An undress; a loose, negligent dress; deshabille.

They breakfast in dishabille.

Smollett.

Dis*hab"it (?), v. t. [Pref. dis- + habit to inhabit.] To dislodge. [Obs.]

Those sleeping stones . . . from their fixed beds of lime Had been dishabited.

Shak.

Dis*hab"it*ed, p. a. Rendered uninhabited. "Dishabited towns." R. Carew.

Dis`ha*bit"u*ate (?; 135), v. t. To render unaccustomed.

Dis*ha"ble (?), v. t. 1. To disable. [Obs.]

2. To disparage. [Obs.]

She oft him blamed . . . and him dishabled quite.

Spenser.

Dis*hal"low (?), v. t. To make unholy; to profane. Tennyson.

Nor can the unholiness of the priest dishallow the altar.

T. Adams.

Dis`har*mo"ni*ous (?), a. Unharmonious; discordant. [Obs.] Hallywell.

Dis*har"mo*ny (?), n. Want of harmony; discord; incongruity. [R.]

A disharmony in the different impulses that constitute it [our nature].

Coleridge.

Dis*haunt" (?), v. t. To leave; to quit; to cease to haunt. Halliwell.

Dish"cloth` (?; 115), n. A cloth used for washing dishes.

Dish"clout` (?), n. A dishcloth. [Obsolescent]

Dis*heart" (?), v. t. To dishearten. [Obs.]

Dis*heart"en (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disheartened (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Disheartening.] [Pref. dis- + hearten.] To discourage; to deprive of courage and hope; to depress the spirits of; to deject.

Regiments . . . utterly disorganized and disheartened.

Macaulay.

Syn. -- To dispirit; discourage; depress; deject; deter; terrify.

Dis*heart"en*ment (?), n. Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits.

Dis*heir" (?), v. t. [Cf. Disherit.] To disinherit. [Obs.] Dryden.

Dis*helm" (?), v. t. [Pref. dis- + helm helmet.] To deprive of the helmet. [Poetic]

Lying stark, Dishelmed and mute, and motionlessly pale.

Tennyson.

Dis*her"i*son (?), n. [See Disherit.] The act of disheriting, or debarring from inheritance; disinhersion. Bp. Hall.

Dis*her"it (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disherited; p. pr. & vb. n. Disheriting.] [F. déshériter; pref. dés- (L. dis-) + hériter to inherit. See Inherit, and cf. Dusheir, Disinherit.] To disinherit; to cut off, or detain, from the possession or enjoyment of an inheritance. [Obs.] Spenser.

Dis*her"it*ance (?), n. [Cf. OF. desheritance.] The act of disinheriting or state of being disinherited; disinheritance. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Dis*her"it*or (?), n. (Law) One who puts another out of his inheritance.

Di*shev"el (d*shv"'l or - l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disheveled (?) or Dishevelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Disheveling or Dishevelling.] [OF. descheveler, F. décheveler, LL. discapillare; dis- + L. capillus the hair of the head. See Capillary.] 1. To suffer (the hair) to hang loosely or disorderly; to spread or throw (the hair) in disorder; -- used chiefly in the passive participle.

With garments rent and hair disheveled, Wringing her hands and making piteous moan.

Spenser.

2. To spread loosely or disorderly.

Like the fair flower disheveled in the wind.

Cowper.

Di*shev"el, v. i. To be spread in disorder or hang negligently, as the hair. [R.] Sir T. Herbert.

Di*shev"ele (?), p. p. & a. Disheveled. [Obs.]

Dishevele, save his cap, he rode all bare.

Chaucer.

Di*shev"eled (?), a. 1. Hanging in loose disorder; disarranged; as, disheveled hair.

2. Having the hair in loose disorder.

The dancing maidens are disheveled Mænads.

J. A. Symonds.

dish"ful (?), n.; pl. dishfuls (&?;). As much as a dish holds when full.

Dish"ing, a. Dish-shaped; concave.

Dis*hon"est (?), a. [Pref. dis- + honest: cf. F. déshonnête, OF. deshoneste.] 1. Dishonorable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd. [Obs.]

Inglorious triumphs and dishonest scars.

Pope.

Speak no foul or dishonest words before them [the women].

Sir T. North.

2. Dishonored; disgraced; disfigured. [Obs.]

Dishonest with lopped arms the youth appears, Spoiled of his nose and shortened of his ears.

Dryden.

3. Wanting in honesty; void of integrity; faithless; disposed to cheat or defraud; not trustworthy; as, a dishonest man.

4. Characterized by fraud; indicating a want of probity; knavish; fraudulent; unjust.

To get dishonest gain.

Ezek. xxii. 27.

The dishonest profits of men in office.

Bancroft.

Dis*hon"est, v. t. [Cf. OF. deshonester.] To disgrace; to dishonor; as, to dishonest a maid. [Obs.]

I will no longer dishonest my house.

Chapman.

Dis*hon"est*ly, adv. In a dishonest manner.

Dis*hon"es*ty (?), n. [Cf. OF. deshonesté, F. déshonnêteté.] 1. Dishonor; dishonorableness; shame. [Obs.] "The hidden things of dishonesty." 2 Cor. iv. 2.

2. Want of honesty, probity, or integrity in principle; want of fairness and straightforwardness; a disposition to defraud, deceive, or betray; faithlessness.

3. Violation of trust or of justice; fraud; any deviation from probity; a dishonest act.

4. Lewdness; unchastity. Shak.

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Dis*hon"or (ds*n"r or dz-), n. [OE. deshonour, dishonour, OF. deshonor, deshonur, F. déshonneur; pref. des- (L. dis-) + honor, honur, F. honneur, fr. L. honor. See Honor.] [Written also dishonour.]

1. Lack of honor; disgrace; ignominy; shame; reproach.

It was not meet for us to see the king's dishonor.

Ezra iv. 14.

His honor rooted in dishonor stood.

Tennyson.

2. (Law) The nonpayment or nonacceptance of commercial paper by the party on whom it is drawn.

Syn. -- Disgrace; ignominy; shame; censure; reproach; opprobrium.

Dis*hon"or (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dishonored (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dishonoring.] [OE. deshonouren, F. déshonorer; pref. dés- (L. dis-) + honorer to honor, fr. L. honorare. See Honor, v. t.] [Written also dishonour.] 1. To deprive of honor; to disgrace; to bring reproach or shame on; to treat with indignity, or as unworthy in the sight of others; to stain the character of; to lessen the reputation of; as, the duelist dishonors himself to maintain his honor.

Nothing . . . that may dishonor Our law, or stain my vow of Nazarite.

Milton.

2. To violate the chastity of; to debauch. Dryden.

3. To refuse or decline to accept or pay; -- said of a bill, check, note, or draft which is due or presented; as, to dishonor a bill exchange.

Syn. -- To disgrace; shame; debase; degrade; lower; humble; humiliate; debauch; pollute.

Dis*hon"or*a*ble (?), a. [Cf. F. déshonorable.] 1. Wanting in honor; not honorable; bringing or deserving dishonor; staining the character, and lessening the reputation; shameful; disgraceful; base.

2. Wanting in honor or esteem; disesteemed.

He that is dishonorable in riches, how much more in poverty!

Ecclus. x. 31.

To find ourselves dishonorable graves.

Shak.

-- Dis*hon"or*a*ble*ness, n. -- Dis*hon"or*a*bly, adv.

Dis*hon"or*a*ry (?), a. Bringing dishonor on; tending to disgrace; lessening reputation. Holmes.

Dis*hon"or*er (?), n. One who dishonors or disgraces; one who treats another indignity. Milton.

Dis*horn" (?), v. t. To deprive of horns; as, to dishorn cattle. "Dishorn the spirit." Shak.

Dis*horse" (?), v. t. To dismount. Tennyson.

Dis*house" (?), v. t. To deprive of house or home. "Dishoused villagers." James White.

Dis*hu"mor (?), n. Ill humor. [Obs.]

Dis*hu"mor, v. t. To deprive of humor or desire; to put out of humor. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Dish"wash`er (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, washes dishes.

2. (Zoöl.) A European bird; the wagtail.

Dish"wa`ter (?), n. Water in which dishes have been washed. "Suds and dishwater." Beau. & Fl.

Dis`il*lu"sion (?), n. The act or process of freeing from an illusion, or the state of being freed therefrom. Lowell.

Dis`il*lu"sion, v. t. To free from an illusion; to disillusionize.

Dis`il*lu"sion*ize (?), v. t. To disenchant; to free from illusion. "The bitter disillusionizing experience of postnuptial life." W. Black.

Dis`il*lu"sion*ment (?), n. The act of freeing from an illusion, or the state of being freed therefrom.

Dis`im*bit"ter (?), v. t. [Pref. dis- + imbitter. Cf. Disembitter.] To free from bitterness.

Dis`im*park" (?), v. t. To free from the barriers or restrictions of a park. [R.] Spectator.

Dis`im*pas"sioned (?), a. Free from warmth of passion or feeling.

Dis`im*prove" (?), v. t. To make worse; -- the opposite of improve. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

Dis`im*prove", v. i. To grow worse; to deteriorate.

Dis`im*prove"ment (?), n. Reduction from a better to a worse state; as, disimprovement of the earth.

Dis`in*car"cer*ate (?), v. t. To liberate from prison. [R.] Harvey.

Dis*in`cli*na"tion (?), n. The state of being disinclined; want of propensity, desire, or affection; slight aversion or dislike; indisposition.

Disappointment gave him a disinclination to the fair sex.

Arbuthnot.

Having a disinclination to books or business.

Guardian.

Syn. -- Unwillingness; disaffection; alienation; dislike; indisposition; distaste; aversion; repugnance.

Dis`in*cline" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disinclined (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Disinclining.] To incline away the affections of; to excite a slight aversion in; to indispose; to make unwilling; to alienate.

Careful . . . to disincline them from any reverence or affection to the Queen.

Clarendon.

To social scenes by nature disinclined.

Cowper.

Dis`in*close" (?), v. t. [Cf. Disenclose.] To free from being inclosed.

Dis`in*cor"po*rate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disincorporated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Disincorporating (?).] 1. To deprive of corporate powers, rights, or privileges; to divest of the condition of a corporate body.

2. To detach or separate from a corporation. Bacon.

Dis`in*cor"po*rate (?), a. Separated from, or not included in, a corporation; disincorporated. Bacon.

Dis`in*cor`po*ra"tion (?), n. Deprivation of the rights and privileges of a corporation. T. Warton.

Dis`in*fect" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disinfected; p. pr. & vb. n. Disinfecting.] To free from infectious or contagious matter; to destroy putrefaction; to purify; to make innocuous.

When the infectious matter and the infectious matter and the odoriferous matter are one . . . then to deodorize is to disinfect.

Ure.

Dis`in*fect"ant (?), n. That which disinfects; an agent for removing the causes of infection, as chlorine.

Dis`in*fec"tion (?), n. The act of disinfecting; purification from infecting matter.

Dis`in*fect"or (?), n. One who, or that which, disinfects; an apparatus for applying disinfectants.

Dis`in*flame" (?), v. t. To divest of flame or ardor. Chapman.

Dis*in`ge*nu"i*ty (?), n. Disingenuousness. [Obs.] Clarendon.

Dis`in*gen"u*ous (?), a. 1. Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean; unworthy; as, disingenuous conduct or schemes.

2. Not ingenuous; wanting in noble candor or frankness; not frank or open; uncandid; unworthily or meanly artful.

So disingenuous as not to confess them [faults].

Pope.

-- Dis`in*gen"u*ous*ly, adv. T. Warton. -- Dis`in*gen"u*ous*ness, n. Macaulay.

Dis`in*hab"it*ed (?), a. Uninhabited. [Obs.]

Dis`in*her"i*son (?), n. [See Disinherit, v. t., and cf. Disherison.] Same as Disherison. Bacon.

Dis`in*her"it (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disinherited; p. pr. & vb. n. Disinheriting.] [Cf. Disherit, Disheir.] 1. To cut off from an inheritance or from hereditary succession; to prevent, as an heir, from coming into possession of any property or right, which, by law or custom, would devolve on him in the course of descent.

Of how fair a portion Adam disinherited his whole posterity!

South.

2. To deprive of heritage; to dispossess.

And disinherit Chaos, that reigns here.

Milton.

Dis`in*her"it*ance (?), n. The act of disinheriting, or the condition of being; disinherited; disherison.

Dis`in*hume" (?), v. t. To disinter. [R.]

Dis`in*sure" (?), v. t. To render insecure; to put in danger. [Obs.] Fanshawe.

Dis*in"te*gra*ble (?), a. Capable of being disintegrated, or reduced to fragments or powder.

Argillo-calcite is readily disintegrable by exposure.

Kirwan.

Dis*in"te*grate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disintegrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Disintegrating.] [L. dis- + integratus, p. p. of integrare to renew, repair, fr. integer entire, whole. See Integer.] To separate into integrant parts; to reduce to fragments or to powder; to break up, or cause to fall to pieces, as a rock, by blows of a hammer, frost, rain, and other mechanical or atmospheric influences.

Marlites are not disintegrated by exposure to the atmosphere, at least in six years.

Kirwan.

Dis*in"te*grate, v. i. To decompose into integrant parts; as, chalk rapidly disintegrates.

Dis*in`te*gra"tion (?), n. (a) The process by which anything is disintegrated; the condition of anything which is disintegrated. Specifically (b) (Geol.) The wearing away or falling to pieces of rocks or strata, produced by atmospheric action, frost, ice, etc.

Society had need of further disintegration before it could begin to reconstruct itself locally.

Motley.

Dis*in"te*gra`tor (?), n. (Mech.) A machine for grinding or pulverizing by percussion.

Dis`in*ter" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disinterred (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Disinterring.] 1. To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up.

2. To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view. Addison.

Dis*in"ter*ess (?), v. t. [F. désintéresser to deprive of interest in; pref. dés- (L. dis-) + intéresser to interest, fr. L. interesse to import, concern. See Interest, and cf. Disinterest.] To deprive or rid of interest in, or regard for; to disengage. [Obs.]

Dis*in"ter*ess*ment (?), n. [Cf. F. désintéressement.] Disinterestedness; impartiality; fairness. [Obs.] Prior.

Dis*in"ter*est (?), p. a. Disinterested. [Obs.]

The measures they shall walk by shall be disinterest and even.

Jer. Taylor.

Dis*in"ter*est, n. 1. What is contrary to interest or advantage; disadvantage. [Obs.] Glanvill.

2. Indifference to profit; want of regard to private advantage; disinterestedness. [Obs.] Johnson.

Dis*in"ter*est, v. t. To divest of interest or interested motives. [Obs.] Feltham.

Dis*in"ter*est*ed, a. [Cf. Disinteressed.] Not influenced by regard to personal interest or advantage; free from selfish motive; having no relation of interest or feeling; not biased or prejudiced; as, a disinterested decision or judge.

The happiness of disinterested sacrifices.

Channing.

Syn. -- Unbiased; impartial; uninterested; indifferent.

Dis*in"ter*est*ed*ly, adv. In a disinterested manner; without bias or prejudice.

Dis*in"ter*est*ed*ness, n. The state or quality of being disinterested; impartiality.

That perfect disinterestedness and self- devotion of which man seems to be incapable, but which is sometimes found in woman.

Macaulay.

Dis*in"ter*est*ing, a. Uninteresting. [Obs.] "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.

Dis`in*ter"ment (?), n. The act of disinterring, or taking out of the earth; exhumation.

Dis`in*thrall" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disinthralled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Disinthralling.] [Pref. dis- + inthrall. Cf. Disenthrall.] To free from thralldom; to disenthrall. [Written also disinthral.]

Dis`in*thrall"ment (?), n. A releasing from thralldom or slavery; disenthrallment. [Written also disinthralment.]

Dis*in"tri*cate (?), v. t. To disentangle. [R.] "To disintricate the question." Sir W. Hamilton.

Dis`in*ure" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disinured (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Disinuring.] [Pref. dis- + inure.] To render unaccustomed or unfamiliar.

We are hindered and disinured . . . towards the true knowledge.

Milton.

Dis`in*ves"ti*ture (?; 135), n. The act of depriving of investiture. [Obs.] Ogilvie.

Dis`in*vig"or*ate (?), v. t. To enervate; to weaken. [R.] Sydney Smith.

Dis`in*volve" (?), v. t. To uncover; to unfold or unroll; to disentangle. [R.] Dr. H. More.

Dis*jec"tion (?), n. [L. disjicere, disjectum, to throw asunder, disperse; dis- + jacere to throw.] Destruction; dispersion. Bp. Horsley.

Dis*join" (ds*join"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disjoined (-joind"); p. pr. & vb. n. Disjoining.] [OF. desjoindre, F. disjoindre, déjoindre, fr. L. disjungere; dis- + jungere to join. See Join, and cf. Disjoint, Disjunct.] To part; to disunite; to separate; to sunder.

That marriage, therefore, God himself disjoins.

Milton.

Never let us lay down our arms against France, till we have utterly disjoined her from the Spanish monarchy.

Addison.

Windmill Street consisted of disjoined houses.

Pennant.

Syn. -- To disunite; separate; detach; sever; dissever; sunder; disconnect.

Dis*join", v. i. To become separated; to part.

Dis*joint" (?), a. [OF. desjoint, p. p. of desjoindre. See Disjoin.] Disjointed; unconnected; -- opposed to conjoint. Milton.